[SpookyZalost]

@lain: that's the thing, Pop! works great with modern linux games and steam.
hell proton works like a dream on it, no extra config necessary.

it's the old games from back before ALSA that's the issue, the stuff like quake III, simcity 3000, the sims, etc.

since pop! is based on ubuntu and debian, pulse is the audio system of choice, built on top of ALSA.

now if it was just ALSA I could use the compatibility libraries, but it seems that 32bit vs 64 bit causes a hangup with the padsp_oss compatibility system as near as I can tell.

you have to remember that a lot of these games were for sale for linux back when Nvidia geforce 2 and 3 was the graphics card of choice and people were running mandrake 8.1 for gaming.

it's a real PITA but it's probably easier to just reconfigure a linux distro with OSS4 support since that's backwards compatible and shouldn't have any issues beyond that on modern linux apps, in fact OSS_alsa is a great alsa compatibility library lol.

beyond the sound issue, and the bit where old games ran as root and new stuff ran under the user account system (run as root lol), I've had no issues other than graphics settings not being saved (root/user account issue).

mostly I run the old games with a -w argument to force them to run in windowed mode so they don't mess with my graphics settings as the graphics don't return to 1920x1080 when I exit out of them.

I will say this though, I'm having far better luck getting old linux games working than 16bit/win 95/98 era windows games on 8 onwards.

for the graphics settings I'm going to test something on my install of SC3K.
the argument: -r:800x600 should change the resolution to a higher one since it won't save my settings, but we'll see.