How to play elite dangerous on manjaro linux

Taken from ProtonDB:

You have to instal dotnet472

$ protontricks 359320 -q dotnet472 win7

This takes about 30 minutes with a lot of error messages. After it finishes you have to make modifications to config files in the game directory, from both:

/steamapps/common/Elite Dangerous/EDLauncher.exe.config

/steamapps/common/Elite Dangerous/HardwareReporter.exe.config

Delete the following line: supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727"

and add the following: supportedRuntime version="v4.0"

Windowing: Activating Fullscreen After changing resolution, change the option to fullscreen mode. After a few tries it should work.

https://www.protondb.com/app/359320

Note: I have not personally tried this, but the above page is about the most useful reference for this you're going to find. It does very much seem to be distro-dependent, but those on Arch-based distros appear to be having much better luck than others.

Using the Native steam 'play on linux' does not work, as it does not install mono, which is a framework Elite uses for the launcher.

This is how you could do it:

• Using latest version of Antergos Linux
• Using Lutris to install Windows Steam version of Elite Dangerous

(Lutris uses Wine, which autodetects the requirement of mono and installs everything required)

According to mzry, a user on the Frontier Forums, it runs as smooth as windows, and sound, audio, and joysticks work perfectly.

Hope this helps!