u/-Feeblington-

For context i run arch with cachyos kernel - old ryzen 3400g 16gb ddr4 and 1650.

I use lutris to manage my games. But one is being stubborn as hell gtav (enhanced)

So i own the game on epic and as most normal people hate the epic launcher. I used to play it with heroic, then itd open epic and rockstar launcher. sigh

I found if i use legendary i can install it without epic however. Trying to get it working in lutris has been......difficult.

So far ive installed gtav with legendary, added it as an installed game in lutris using proton ge 10.34. Then installed the rockstar launcher in the prefix...run it and logged in. I then set the exe to rockstar launcher in lutris. But when i open it it cant find my installed game.

Ive confirmed gtav has installed and pointed it to the right place.

I also tried running every "gta5, play-gtav etc" exe and all either error or tell me to launch from rockstar.

Im aware ive made this hard for myself but ....i....just.....hate.....epic! 😅

Any help wouod be awesome

Here is a list of SOME adb commands ive used to restrict access to gms and ota updates. i have lost alot of what ive done as its been over months. however these were sort of the last step, after removing what i could on a non rooted phone, ADB still allowed access for root app permissions. ergo....they all get denied!

my phone is a huawei p30 pro - stock rom - running microg and no google play (we will see if i have done enough to mitigate the google update in september). hopefully this helps someone!

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms FINE_LOCATION deny

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms FINE_LOCATION deny

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms COARSE_LOCATION deny

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms READ_CONTACTS deny

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms WRITE_CONTACTS deny

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms GET_ACCOUNTS deny

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms READ_PHONE_STATE deny

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms CAMERA deny

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms RECORD_AUDIO deny

~>adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms RUN_IN_BACKGROUND deny

~>adb shell appops set com.huawei.android.hwouc RUN_IN_BACKGROUND deny

~>adb shell appops set com.huawei.android.hwouc READ_PHONE_STATE deny

~>adb shell appops set com.huawei.android.hwouc FINE_LOCATION deny

~>adb shell appops set com.huawei.android.hwouc COARSE_LOCATION deny

~>adb shell pm list packages -u -U | grep com.huawei.android.hwouc

package:com.huawei.android.hwouc uid:10092

~>adb shell cmd netpolicy add restrict-background-blacklist 10092

~>adb shell pm list packages -u -U | grep com.android.vending

package:com.android.vending uid:10181

~>adb shell cmd netpolicy add restrict-background-blacklist 10181

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms COARSE_LOCATION deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms MONITOR_LOCATION deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms MONITOR_HIGH_POWER_LOCATION deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms NEIGHBORING_CELLS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms WIFI_SCAN deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms BLUETOOTH_SCAN deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms READ_PHONE_STATE deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms CALL_PHONE deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms READ_CONTACTS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms WRITE_CONTACTS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms GET_ACCOUNTS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms READ_SMS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms WRITE_SMS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms RECEIVE_SMS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms SEND_SMS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms CAMERA deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms RECORD_AUDIO deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms READ_CALENDAR deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms WRITE_CALENDAR deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms BODY_SENSORS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms READ_CLIPBOARD deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms WRITE_CLIPBOARD deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms WRITE_SETTINGS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms GET_USAGE_STATS deny

adb shell appops set com.google.android.gms ACCESS_NOTIFICATIONS deny

~>adb shell appops set com.android.vending RUN_IN_BACKGROUND deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending RUN_ANY_IN_BACKGROUND deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending FINE_LOCATION deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending COARSE_LOCATION deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending READ_PHONE_STATE deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending READ_CONTACTS deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending GET_ACCOUNTS deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW deny

adb shell appops set com.android.vending GET_USAGE_STATS deny

So ive played hl2 ep 1 and 2 and DONT have VR

I was going to wait to play alyx when i get a vr as heard the no vr mod does take away from it.

My question - if i play black mesa before alyx will i miss things? Is there an order to play them in?

Being as google is doing some naughty things ive doubled down degoogling. So far the only remaining element of google on my p30 pro is webview.

Even though ive removed all trace of ota updstes etc im still worried. Is there any secret workaround to access bootloader and flash custom roms? .im aware huawei stopped doing it ages ago.... Just hoping someone has worked out a way!

Ive seen countless posts asking. Figured id start a poll...maybe if we all vote the outcome may help newbies?

This isnt a poll for your favourite distro.

This is a poll for "im moving from windows and play games" ease of movement.

If you want to comment about prefered distro or one that you ended up on and why - all useful!!

View Poll

im aware this is old news - ive just noticed in last few weeks it seems to be happening more often:

Total Download Size: 652.68 MiB

Total Installed Size: 2119.32 MiB

Net Upgrade Size: -110.21 MiB

like was said on another subreddit - linux will be booting off thinair soon :D