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Technical Issue: Can't make this launch on Linux through Proton/Wine/Linux Version, is there anything non standard or different about the version of RPG Maker? Ran normally back when I used Windows, but on Steam OS, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and Pop_OS I get nothing, no window ever opens. Anyone have any idea what that might be?

It's RPG Maker MV, if that helps. It's possible a plugin could be causing an issue, but I don't see that causing nothing to open whatsoever. I don't know a ton about Linux, but i thought Wine was for running Windows applications, so if you are doing that wouldn't you want to use the Windows version instead of the Linux one? Also, since you asked if there was something different about this version of RPG Maker, does that mean you've successfully ran other RPG Maker games on Linux without issue? I'm not seeing much about that issue online, a very generic solution you could try would be to move the game's folder somewhere with a short filepath, like your desktop, in case there's a filepath length issue. 

I've zero idea how that shit happens, but specifically your game fails to start under wine, with some error about kerberos and openxr doing some weird shit and failing to initialize vulkan backend, so nothing proton-based will work. Sys wine also fails, but it's probably my system specifically that's scuffed.

Native Linux version fails because it depends on beyond-deprecated-now-plain-dead 'gconf' for some reason, so I slapped an old version in a subdirectory and made a script to link it when running the game, and got an ICU error.

tldr; use whatever wine build that doesn't depend on your sys packages. Also not proton. E.g. caffe 9.7 worked for me.

Reason: iunno