Cheat Engine

[SnakeWildlife]

Had my deck for a while now but Linux has always been something i am admittedly TERRIBLE at using.

Proton made gaming accessible, but applications are a whole 'nother ball-game. Mostly i just use the Discover store to One-Click-Intall things i need. Swapped Winamp for Audacious with a Winamp skin for example.

I have found instructions in order to try and get CE working on Steam Deck, but my computer literacy isnt as up to par as you folks.

My request to the Developers of CheatEngine is simple, can we please get an easier method to install and launch your application on Steam Deck / Linux?

It would sure be helpful if i could just download your program in the Discovery store, and then just launch the application without the zig zaggery currently needed to get it going.

To an untrained Linux user like myself, it is currently a huge headache trying to run CE on Steam Deck.

I hope CE breaks the shackles placed on them by Microsoft, and become more universally easy to use across the OS's. Linux now more than ever, needs you to jump on board.

[ParkourPenguin]

I haven't looked too much into it, but given licensing, I think only DB is allowed to package CE with flatpak. It wouldn't help that much anyway: the user is still responsible for allowing CE to access other processes.

Installing CE is pretty easy for me (Arch desktop, not steam deck). Just install wine and CE works. On Arch, the wine bottle needs ms fonts as well, but that's not too difficult.

For proton games, I use a wrapper script called protonhax. This lets you run CE in the same wine instance as the game.
For native Linux games, you need ceserver. Wrap it in a systemd service if you want.


Doing this correctly would involve porting CE to Linux. This task is far easier said than done.

[Marcus101RR]

Wouldn't it be easier to just install windows?

[SnakeWildlife]