gnome makes it easy to login to onedrive and see it from nemo/nautilius etc. microsoft lowkey made it easier to switch away by forcing everyone to use onedrive by default

Right and MS will not lose nothing cus if that

I went to bed while it installed, woke up and it finally completed. When I launch either via the icon within lutris or the script in the desktop it gives me a language selection dialog, the sims 4 icon appears in the tray, I select the language and that is all it does. I am out hiking with my dog, I will copy the script contents when I get home.

Oh sure. Destiny 2. Not that it’s a big loss really as i only casually play. It looks like it was intentionally meant to only play on windows though and bungie are doing what they can to keep it that way https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/263741503?page=0

Currently finding r6 as a bit high maintenance to get working too.

They both use battleeye so that’s probably the reason

So far that’s about it tho. All my main favourites seem to be installing without a hitch.(so far that is)

I’m running with GE latest.

I mean... It's not being turned off. You can still use Windows 10 if you want to, it's just Microsoft don't want to keep pushing security updates to it, and they're like "Well if you want continued security updates you're gonna have to sign in and pay for them".

You can always go without those updates.

Ah ok, yeah the anticheat should be linux compatible, but they simply don't activate it for whatever stupid reason. But maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel; since Microsoft is banishing third party drivers from Kernel in the near future, because of the Crowdstrike disaster. That could mean that those anticheats can be run with proton. Only time will tell. gL&hf!

There's a great Linux distro guide here.

Elemental OS if you want a Maclike interface.

According to the guide, Zorin OS would be great for beginners if you want a Microsoft-like interface that's FOSS.

I'm not saying it can't be an alternative for a lot of people.

I'm just stating my personal position, for my use case.

Just curious, which software do you have to run on windows?
I used to think alternatives for photography weren’t good enough but I changed my mind recently. Alternatives exist, but just like switching from windows, it requires the willingness to relearn how to do things I was used to in adobe lightroom and photoshop.

I ran the install and created an Inpress(PowerPoint for LibreOffice) document with all the screenshots this morning., then realized I can't upload it here. But hopefully the only error you had was trying to run it from the installer. If so, add the locally installed game in Lutris using the + and choosing the last option (locally installed game).

Then point it to your .exe file

Should be something like
Games/Sims/drive_c/program files/the Sims 4/game/bin_le/ts4.exe

DM me an email address or somewhere I can drop the Screenshots if you would like them.

Edit: found a work around so you don't need to give me an email, apparently a site called file.io is run by the makers of lime wire, link to Impress file
https://limewire.com/d/tnxkQ#Eq702rvgjW

Link to PowerPoint in case
https://limewire.com/d/k1LhN#lJC6g3xCkt

Thanks, I run two d&d games today. I will try it when I get home.

I had some time before game and got it to load. But I am getting the cannot save error again, which prevents me from actually entering the game.

I downloaded the file, but did not have a chance to open it yet.

The Affinity suite, Designer, Photo, and Publisher. I have used Inkscape, Gimp, and Scribus, but Affinity is very intuitive, easy to work with, professional, inexpensive one-time payment (per major version), very well integrated between apps, and follows the same paradigms. I've never been a fan of Adobe.

Running Affinity in Wine is a hack, and a lot less responsive in a VM.

Damn, I haven't seen that before, but I wonder if it's a permissions error? The save files for The Sims are located in a user documents folder within the install location we made. I assume you installed with the same user that's running the game so I'm not sure why it wouldn't have permissions to that folder. Could check the permissions on that save folder just in case. Was the installer a new one you downloaded when we started talking? If so that would have ruled out a corrupt installer too. I'll let you know if I think of anything else

I had previously downloaded it. But I also get this error when I am able to get the Steam version running.

Makes sense.

I wanted to try the Affinity suite but found it doesn’t work on Linux. I also tried running it via wine but had massive issues. I’d gladly pay if they release it for Linux. Until then, I’ll use free alternatives.

Was that steam version downloaded through steam? Aka is it a different installer, or did you install in steam using the non-steam game option. (Just trying to verify it's a different installer, don't do the install again if it's 2 seperate install packs you installed from)

Steam installs in a different location than Lutris as well, so it shouldn't be the specific folder not having permissions. I assume Steam user Proton by default as well while Lutris likely defaulted to Wine.

Grr.. this is going to be something stupid and frustrating for you.

Edit: I checked my location (you will have to modify it to fit your install path, my username was mint on this machine, so keep that in mind)
/home/mint/Games/sims/drive_c/users/mint
Then I'd check that Documents folder (Where I am hoping the permissions got botched)
and if those are right check the EA and The Sims 4 folders drilling down until you check the save folder in
/home/mint/Games/sims/drive_c/users/mint/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4 (if you followed down the rabbit hole you are already there.

If that all looks good honestly I don't know why it would be acting so strange after using 2 separate installers.

The steam version is from steam, downloaded from steam and installed via steam. I have tried running it with multiple versions of Proton and Proton-GE to varying degrees of success. It either runs at a single digit frame rate, crashes on start up, or if it manage to get it running okay, it also cannot save.

The version I have installed currently is the fitgirl repack. I downloaded before we started troubleshooting, I had downloaded and installed it on a previous install of mint (I had to wipe that and install again due to me encrypting the home folder and that causing issues. Since then I redownloaded the sims4 FG repack. I installed it for the first time on this install of mint yesterday. Having the same issue with saving as I had on the last install of mint. That time however I used a guide from reddit that was very convoluted compared to how I installed it yesterday.

The current install of TS4 is in /home/user_name/Games/the-sims-4-lutris/drive_c/Program Files/The Sims 4/Game/Bin/TS4_x64.exe I do not see a way to set the save folder. This was installed via Lutris, and I used this install location because the default when installing was Z:\Games\The Sims 4, but doing so fails. Which is why I have it in c:.

I am wondering if I create the directory first if that will work.

Edit: read your post more carefully and see you gave me your path for install. I used that same path (roughly) still it is using c:\users\user_name\

Installation takes like 2+ hours, so it is working currently.

Inside your install path it will create a c/users/username/documents like a Windows directory, that is the documents folder that it saves your local saves too. So you can navigate there on her old Windows machine if she has one and copy her save files from there and dump them in the same location and it should make them available. (The save file location is what I was worried didn't have read/write permissions). But it's just a guess from the fact that it was saying it can't save, which if it didn't have read permissions, if maybe couldn't create/read the default directories during first time setup or w.e.

Hopefully you'll get lucky and it works this time without having to edit anything

Weird. I'm pretty sure I have played via steam and it worked. I'll maybe try later if I remember.