MasterTracklayer
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Please note: I`m using my second-hand Win10 laptop at the moment, so most of the following comments are from memory, not from actually checking on thee Linux system. As I`m sure you know already, KUbuntu is Ubuntu, just with a different GUI, and Ubuntu is a DebIan derivative. This should help me some when trying to follow your advice.
I think I have Play on Linux installed.
I`m not familiar with Lutris. I`ll have to see if I can find it in the Ubuntu repository. I know WineTricks and believe that I have it installed. Like you, I don`t know it at all well.
The hardware I`m planning on trying to get Trainz running on is definitely superior to the laptop I`m using now. The test-install mentioned elsewhere was performed on this better machine, and it is also currently my primary Linux machine. My KUbuntu system is installed on a SSD drive that is mounted inside a portable box with a USB cable. The boot partition is installed to a companion thumb drive. My KUbuntu system is therefore very portable. The machine itself contains another SSD. The only real drawback is that the motherboard audio seems to have died. All three have plenty of free space available. I`ve been running KUbuntu exclusively for years, ever since the WinXP that I had been running on my previous system decided to eat the WinXP primary data partition. I`ve been trying to recover data from it, but I`ve lost the NTFS disk-structure document that I was using as a guide to write my own data-recovery tool, and have been unable to complete the tool.
I don`t recall exactly where, but within the last few days I`ve posted about a test-install of Win10 on the internal SSD and the subsequent purging of bloatware. I think that it was in the Suggestion Boxcar thread about creating a Linux-nativebversion of Trainz. As for needing Windows for your content-creation activities, have you tried running those programs on your Linux machine?
I`m something of a minor computer wiz myself, or at least used to be one, also largely self-taught. I`ve been reading about the Content Manager issues. I should be able to create a hot-key to refresh the window with a single multi-key keypress, possibly even a single-key hotkey. As for installing, I can just copy the current install into Linux file-space with a reasonable expectation of it working, no installer needed, plus I get to keep all of my installed content. The biggest problem I can see at the moment is this Lutris thing. I`ll start looking for it when I get a break in the forum activity. I`ll get back to you with the results.
Edit: Yes, I`ve still got that Boxcar thread open and can confirm that the post mentioned above is here.
Edit 2: I see you`ve already Liked it.
Edit 3: No Lutris in the repository.
Edit 4: Corrected an offensive spelling of a brand name.
I think I have Play on Linux installed.
I`m not familiar with Lutris. I`ll have to see if I can find it in the Ubuntu repository. I know WineTricks and believe that I have it installed. Like you, I don`t know it at all well.
The hardware I`m planning on trying to get Trainz running on is definitely superior to the laptop I`m using now. The test-install mentioned elsewhere was performed on this better machine, and it is also currently my primary Linux machine. My KUbuntu system is installed on a SSD drive that is mounted inside a portable box with a USB cable. The boot partition is installed to a companion thumb drive. My KUbuntu system is therefore very portable. The machine itself contains another SSD. The only real drawback is that the motherboard audio seems to have died. All three have plenty of free space available. I`ve been running KUbuntu exclusively for years, ever since the WinXP that I had been running on my previous system decided to eat the WinXP primary data partition. I`ve been trying to recover data from it, but I`ve lost the NTFS disk-structure document that I was using as a guide to write my own data-recovery tool, and have been unable to complete the tool.
I don`t recall exactly where, but within the last few days I`ve posted about a test-install of Win10 on the internal SSD and the subsequent purging of bloatware. I think that it was in the Suggestion Boxcar thread about creating a Linux-nativebversion of Trainz. As for needing Windows for your content-creation activities, have you tried running those programs on your Linux machine?
I`m something of a minor computer wiz myself, or at least used to be one, also largely self-taught. I`ve been reading about the Content Manager issues. I should be able to create a hot-key to refresh the window with a single multi-key keypress, possibly even a single-key hotkey. As for installing, I can just copy the current install into Linux file-space with a reasonable expectation of it working, no installer needed, plus I get to keep all of my installed content. The biggest problem I can see at the moment is this Lutris thing. I`ll start looking for it when I get a break in the forum activity. I`ll get back to you with the results.
Edit: Yes, I`ve still got that Boxcar thread open and can confirm that the post mentioned above is here.
Edit 2: I see you`ve already Liked it.
Edit 3: No Lutris in the repository.
Edit 4: Corrected an offensive spelling of a brand name.
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