@LWorksGames@tweesecake.social
Post #1036891
2026-04-09 10:23 UTC
Replies (11)
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@Rich@dragonscave.space 2026-04-09 10:32
@LWorksGames VMWare with Mint Mate.
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@DrHyde@fosstodon.org 2026-04-09 10:38
@LWorksGames Depends what platform you're on. If you're on a Mac, look at UTM. If your games are the sort that use fancy graphics you may be better off using actual hardware though, as GPU virtualization is generally a bit of a pig.
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@Revertron@zhub.link 2026-04-09 11:26
@LWorksGames VirtualBox with Kubuntu.
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@GraceTechNerd@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 14:29
@LWorksGames @alexchapman Virtual box with Linux Mint Mate.
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@Tamasg@mindly.social 2026-04-09 15:02
@alexchapman @LWorksGames you know what's funny I was in the same place, but Accessible Coconut surprisingly loaded up on a VM really well and I could get non-choppy sound out of it. Had all the nicetys set-up with speech dispatcher, sound at log-on and per-user, all that, so I stuck with it. Accessible Coconut it is, Ubuntu-based. I think 22.04. It has Glib 2.35. If you compile your game on anything newer, say, Glib 2.38, you might run into older Linux distros not being able to run it, so actually 2.35 is reasonable.
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@evilcookies98@mastodon.stickbear.me 2026-04-09 15:44
@LWorksGames I would go for VMware player or workstation if you can find it. Broadcom has made it notoriously difficult to locate these days. Virtualbox might be easier to find, but from what I've heard it doesn't play nice with any screen reader ever. As for what to put into the virtual machine, I would go for something like mint or one of its friends, simply because you don't actually have to install a whole bunch of stuff. The installer image is a live demo if you just want to play with it and see if it's for you.
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@vol4life8657@tweesecake.social 2026-04-09 16:34
@munchkinbear @LWorksGames ubuntu is pretty good, so it mint.
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@matt@toot.cafe 2026-04-09 16:52
@LWorksGames My preferred virtualization platform for running a desktop OS in a VM on Windows has always been VMware Workstation. And I'm pretty sure there's a free version. I'll let others opine on distro.
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@baethyn@dragonscave.space 2026-04-09 17:37
@LWorksGames Any particular reason you don't use WSL?
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@esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club 2026-04-09 19:11
@LWorksGames you can either use the new wsl in windows 11, I think it's called wslg, I heard people were able to run orca on that. Otherwise, I use virtualbox and qemu to virtualize windows and other linux distros on a regular basis. As to what distro to use and stuff like that, if you can make it run on a relatively stable base like ubuntu or debian derivatives, then it should work fine on everything else, at least until nvgt does proper linux packaging with flatpaks, appimages or something like that.
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@KanawhaCountyWX@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 16:17
@mckensie @LWorksGames As a Linux noobie, I've had good luck with Debian in VMWare Workstation. Screen reader is available during setup, runs pretty well.