I have some very bored kids, who’ve never played computer games. But due to stressful circumstances at the moment I thought I’d let them have a small venture into some low adrenalin games (thinking tetris, maybe mario kart type stuff).
I found the Games Lab spin of Fedora, NICE! But I can’t stand the XFCE environment. So I thought I’d ask:
is there a way to get it with gnome?
if not, is there a way to install the full suite into a pre-existing Fedora WS Gnome install?
Many, if not most, of the available games can be installed on a fedora Workstation installation (gnome).
The gnome software manager makes it easy from the gui to install the games.
You also could install the Games Lab into a VM under libvirt KVM/QEMU and have all the games there available without having to install each one separately.
Nevermind, I assumed it was only available as an XFCE install in one go.
I’ll go with Gnome then pull some in, not sure I have time to check them all out installing manually though.
I had an old Vaio (Vista) laptop which just collapsed eventually. I managed to just about get Mario Kart running on there. I assume games like that only work with windows? I heard you can use Wine, but I haven’t had much luck with Wine in past attempts! I may try that again some time
A click on the ‘play’ button leads to many different games that are native on linux.
You can also install the ‘bottles’ app which provides the ability to create a bottle then within that bottle install many different windows apps/games. Bottles is an easy to use front end for wine.