Vinegar - The Better Way to Run Roblox on Linux

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#128

Coming here now after Roblox confirmed their removal of supporting Wine. Tragic to see this wonder of a project be dwindled by bad actors exploiting wine to their advantage.

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#129

it’s a shame, hopefully it comes back at some point

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#130

It’s probably not going to come back you might want to use a vm just saying

#131

Sadly, vm’s won’t work too, unless you set up a bunch of things that may make it cheaper and easier to just have Windows machine on your side.

#132

support for wine has been canned

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if you want to play roblox now, you may want to do the following

waydroid

pro:

  • easiest way to play roblox
  • still can keep linux installed

con:

  • mobile client is still horrible for keyboard and mouse input
  • can only play mobile games
  • graphics are lacking (isn’t a problem for me personally)

please note that waydroid only works on wayland desktop envoirments

if you are using a desktop environment that uses X, install weston with your package manager
weston will allow you to run a wayland session in a window

kvm with gpu passthrough

pro:

  • can play games for desktop
  • enjoy great graphics
  • still keep linux installed

con:

  • hard to setup & may not work

you can run roblox in a windows virtual machine with the kvm hypervisor with full gpu access

this method is trial and error and may require you to do hours of research just to successfully passthrough a gpu

this should be done with two gpus, one for the host, and one for the virtual machine

doing this on a single gpu may introduce issues and you will not be able to control the linux host until the virtual machine is powered off, all video output will be redirected to the gpu

theres alot of tutorials surrounding this, but i would recommended following someordinarygamers’ guide on how to do it

also, you may want to “harden” the virtual machine, which again, there is tutorials on how to do it

this may count as circumventing hyperion so at your own risk?

dual boot

pro:

  • can play games for desktop
  • enjoy great graphics
  • still keep linux installed

con:

  • lose integration, would require you to reboot the computer to swtich operating systems
  • windows may screw around with grub, a bootloader that is preinstalled on major linux distros, which would require you to manually repair it

as the name suggests, install windows alongside linux

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