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With the recent release of Kubuntu 26.04 LTS I thought I would go back in time to the very first Kubuntu LTS that was released way back in 2006, which is Kubuntu 6.06.

You can grab the old ISOs here, all downloadable right to the very first version: https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/

It's a real blast and I had fun checking it out!

Everything works apart from hardware acceleration which is not working because my GPU is too new, so software acceleration via Mesa GLX Indirect is provided instead which uses the CPU. It's not bad for simple apps but for complex games and apps your performance will be too slow to be usable.

You can get the package manager up and running by pointing all of the repos to old-releases.ubuntu.com as shown, which allows you to download many 2006 era Linux apps, like an ancient version of Wine and Supertux :D

I'm using Virtual Machine manager to run this, with 1 CPU and 1024MB of RAM, with the sound set to ac97.

The biggest differences I've noticed is that that Wayland is used today instead of X11, modern KDE no longer includes a sound server of it's own as apps today just call down to PulseAudio, PipeWire or ALSA... and it was a lot easier back then to just make Linux freak out or mess it up if you didn't know what you were doing.

We have come a long way!

I know Bottles and Lutris are a lot easier and far more hassle free to setup, but I'm also trying to get Wine to upscale older games to to the monitor like Bottles/Lutris seems to be able to do flawlessly.

I'm using a wayland session, under an X11 session Wine upscales games to fit the monitor pretty perfect, but under Wayland they end up as a tiny window in the top left corner of the screen.

I've tried enabling the Wine Wayland driver, but this just makes it into a bigger window that fills only half of the screen.

Games using DXVK upscale pretty perfectly too, but there are many games that are too old to use Directx 8/9/10/11, so they cannot be upscaled.

Virtual Desktop does not work, this just makes it into a tiny window that I can drag around which is better but it's not the fullscreen I am after.

So what the heck does Bottles/Lutris do that enables them to go fullscreen on any desktop and how can I make this work in stock Wine?

Bottles/Lutris are not using Gamescope as I don't have that installed, so how are they doing it? I've also confirmed that Bottles/Lutris are using X11/Xwayland, which stock Wine also uses, so they are not using the Wayland driver.

I'd really love to know what trick they are using so I can replicate this in stock Wine and get proper fullscreen support from it.