This week:

• I have successfuly installed The Sims 2 on my Linux laptop and got it fully working. An absolute miracle. I really just thought I was purposely wasting time and hadn’t really considered the possibility that it might actually work! It seems to be running smoothly and looks fine, although I am going to be very, very slowly adding in CC and play testing it properly, because I really don’t know if the game on Linux can handle heavy CC. Who knows, maybe I’ll be surprised again? And if not, maybe it’ll be good for me to go low CC.
• I have also got Body Shop fully working, despite the creator of the Linux script apparently not knowing of its existence, and it also seems to be working, apart from an apparent glitch with the (original maxis) skintones not matching the head and body entirely. Some googling seems to suggest this a common glitch on Mac systems and some people fix it entirely by using custom skins, so maybe it won’t be problem when I put some defaults in.
• The Compressorizor is also installed and working fine!
• I have changed my blog theme (just spent way longer on this than I’d care to admit haha) and I have reogranised my tags page yet again. I seem to do this everytime I come back from a break.
• Finally, I’ve created a new sideblog imi-reblogged for inspiration and CC finds, because the pinterest account I was using has become such a mess and I think I need the proper tagging system of tumblr. It’s not properly set up yet (still tweaking the theme!), but if you start seeing this account reblogging your stuff, now you know it’s me! I’m also going to try and keep this new resources page properly updated with what I actually have in my downloads folder (especially as I think I need to not let it grow too much, at least until I know if Linux can handle it).

What I hope to do next:

• Install and get fully working CEP, Scriptorium, SimPE (oh boy, that could be fun), Sims2Pack Clean Installer, Mootilda’s Hood Checker.
• Decide on my defaults. Especially important if I’m going to keep my Downloads folder small. I have so many favourite maxis match skin and eye sets that I can’t decide between and I think I need to go in game to compare. I am also so freaking excited that I now have the opportunity to have a tidy Hair folder. In my old downloads folder, I had about a million different maxis match textures in there with the odd non-maxis match texture getting lost in there too, but this time I will use one texture and it will Poppet’s V2 and it will all match and it will be beautiful.
• Work out what basic mods I need to stop hood corruption etc.
• Download and get camera and lighting mods fully working (so excited about the new lighting mods I have yet to try and fingers crossed they work in Linux!)
• Actually play-test for a long period time, not just the few minutes here and there like I have been doing up to now, plus test each bit of CC after adding it to my downloads folder (because, again, unsupported operating system that not many people have tested…).

So that will all take forever…

@hexagonal-bipyramid said: That’s super cool that Sims 2 can “work” on Linux. There’s someone that managed to make it playable using Lutris :)(youtube.com/watch?v…)

I know right! It’s so cool! It’s his script I’ve been using actually and I’ve been in contact with him today about various problems (think I accidently deleted some important stuff oops). This is his script if anyone else is interested: https://lutris.net/games/the-sims-2/. He was super helpful and the game is now fully functional! No more graphic errors…which actually took me less time to fix then on Windows 10. Funny that, huh? Leaving it for today because I’ll probably break something else if I don’t, but I am feeling pretty chuffed with myself right now

I may have completely lost my mind, but I’ve started an attempted install of TS2 on a Linux only laptop. There is no way I am ever putting windows on this (beautiful, flawless etc) laptop, but I can’t help missing Sims a lot sometimes… I attempted this once before (years and years ago) and it was just as much of a disaster as you’d expect. So wish me luck! I may well be regretting this decision in a few hours time. If so I hope to restart my tumblr lurking, even if I never post anything myself ever again haha.