u/PackParking5786

I've had my Steam Controller (2) (although I have two of the old steam controllers) for about two months now, and I have absolutely loved it and it instantly replaced my 8bitdo Ultimate 2 and Dualsense. That being said, I'm a mods guy and I really want to mod it. What are some of the best mods I can do? Is there anywhere where I can get a shell for it? Do steam deck buttons/sticks fit it?

Also, I've been playing through a lot of games on my PS2 recently, is there any sort of a way or a project to get openpuck working with a PS2?

I've been playing through all the Castlevania games this past year and have come to fall in love with this game series. That being said, I had a cool idea.
I know Requiem collection exists, but in my opinion it looks kinda wimpy and I don't have a PS4 or PS5.
The idea would be, make a launcher that would have:

• Symphony of the Night via SymphonyRecomp
• Rondo of Blood (PCE/TG-16)
• Lament of Innocence
• Curse of Darkness

Then maybe something like Adventure ReBirth. But overall my idea is you would need all your ROMs, and I doubt many people would have that.

From there, the launcher would be written in Go or Python. Here's how I think that would work:

(UI Layer) Settings Config
            | 
      Game Library UI
            | 
        Play Action
            |
(Core Engine) Backend Router
            |
    Path & ROM Resolver
            |____________________
           /                     \
Native CLI Builder   Libretro (RetroArch) CLI Builder
                   |
Process Spawner for Windows, Linux, and macOS

I'm debating starting this as a project. Is there already a project out there similar to this that someone has been working on? Otherwise, would anyone have suggestions for how I could do this or things that could be included.

If I do this, I will probably come back here with a list of things I'm planning on doing. That would probably include things like RetroAchievements, Save Syncing (Rclone maybe?), and a lot more.

I doubt many people on here will have ever heard of it, but there's a project called OuDedetai which is a Python script (or app I guess) that installs Logos Bible Software onto Linux using Wine. A couple of months ago, I toyed around with the idea of using Proton instead of Wine and when I tried it out it worked perfectly and I'm still using Logos on my main laptop through that.

That being said, I am trying to figure out a way to run Bluebeam Revu 21 on Linux. (For those who don't know, Bluebeam is a takeoff and estimating program that also has PDF editing and CAD integrations.)

Short reason:

>!Yes I know that's pretty dang hard, I read through lots of ancient reddit posts trying to figure it out and also read enough to know a lot of people will have opinions on why I am doing this and not just using Windows or another program. (Or just running it in a Windows VM) In short, I have my reasons. !<

Longer reason:

>!In length(ish) I work IT for a construction company that is starting to make the switch to Linux for a multitude of reasons. For now though, we have several old HP laptops that are used for being taken out to job sites by Site Leads (technically they would be called Construction Laborers.). Said laptops are old enough and have low enough specs that Windows 11 is slow on them. Since all they are doing is running a web browser or LibreOffice, Linux (Kubuntu with Ansible) just made the most sense for speed, battery life, and security. One of the main programs used however, is Bluebeam Revu. I'm aware I could just do a Windows VM but that's not very simple to use, and the laptops aren't powerful enough to smoothy run a Windows VM. I spent yesterday reading through a bunch of old forum posts to try to gather what I could about it, then tried running the Bluebeam MSI installer in a couple of different Wine launchers and ended up having the most success with Lutris + GE-Proton 11.!<

My thought with this, is Proton has come a long way in the last couple of months alone because of how much development it is getting. What are the chances I could get a Python wrapper working to make a Bluebeam installer? I thought my biggest roadblocks would probably be licensing, OAuth login, and the printer service. I thought this could be fixed by maybe having some sort of browser in the prefix to use, and for the printer I have used CUPS before to get printers working in MS OneNote so I wondered if that could be done here. I'm also fully aware that this would take time to do, but I would also like to then have it available so others can use it as well.

TL;DR:

Trying to run Bluebeam Revu 21 in Wine possibly with Proton on Kubuntu 26.04. Lutris+Proton shows promise, otherwise would a tool like UMU or Wine-Staging work as a potential backend? Is building a custom Python setup wrapper (like this one as an example) to automate MSI staging, registry overrides, and cups-pdf a viable project, or a waste of time?