lizard_thing [she/her]

my best guess is anti-AI protest, Drew Devault is quite famously vehemently against it, and the linux kernel has very openly embraced slopcoded commits

oh so this is how i learn they changed their name! i forgor they were planning to do that

ok that’s… a lot. As for the package manager issues it sounds like you just needed to sudo apt update, if it’s been a few days since the repos were updated then it gives 404 errors sometimes.

Everything else… I wish i could help you further but it sounds like your mint installation is pretty fucked. It really was just “install wine, install Hammer++, double click the .exe” for me 😭 i didnt think my arch-user aura was that powerful

edit: and ‘default wine’ meant “i installed wine from my package manager and that was it”

Blender is by far the most realistic option, but since it seems you really like Hammer, i’ll tell you that Hammer++ works perfectly fine for me on Arch with default wine, with a lil bit of setup:

Install the windows version of whatever Source game (properties > compatability > use any proton version) and then follow the normal Hammer++ setup instructions. Everything seems to Just Work™ for me.