I caved and installed xfce on the fucking laptop it is painfully slow, by my standards, but at least it behaves itself more nicely when running games through wine just directly through wine, too, cause lutris is being a fucking asshole and not working right fucking thing is SO utterly scuffed, but at least the games my dad plays are so unspeakably old, straight up wine handles them about as well as it does notepad
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which is to say, servicable errors in the terminal come out fast and heavy, but the game runs