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Depends on what you want from RPC, I guess. The creator seems to have made a quick patch for Legacy that adds borderless full screen and firstborn syndrome fix, but that's it.

Anyway if you prefer the ultimate collection, I'm happy to rehost a working torrent from one of my private trackers once I'm back on my home connection in about a week.

For body shop, RPC and really any other externally run mods, you'd just click the wine glass icon in Lutris and click "Run .exe in Wine prefix", same for simPE. That's the main reason I recommend Lutris. There might be some specific caveat to these mods, but I've used many external mods in other games this way without issue. Just yesterday I installed CheatEngine in my Ghost of Tsushima prefix to enable a mod which changes the parry timing indicator.

Re: SAI 2, in terminal:

xinput list

Find your touchscreen device e.g "HID-compliant touchscreen"

xinput disable "<HID-compliant touchscreen>"

This will disable touchscreen system-wide but is just to test and will revert upon rebooting. If it works, add an environment variable in Bottles:

WINE_HID_DISABLE_HUMAN_INTERFACE_DEVICES=1

Beyond that the issue might be fixed by adjusting the scaling of your Linux desktop, opentabletdriver configuration, or Bottles configuration related to scaling or mouse acceleration

If you wanted to give it another try, I found this guide for SAI 2: https://github.com/TibixDev/sai2-guide

Many users reported no issues running Sims 2 on protondb, I'd recommend installing it via Lutris: https://protondb.com/app/3314070

You may need to adjust some settings like the runner (wine-ge is default in Lutris and works for all my games, Proton is also popular) or the environment variables (flags detailed in the protondb reports)

Then you could install simPE under the same Wine prefix (like a simulated Windows filesystem) so that it can see your game files. Might have some quirks like what's detailed in this post, but generally seems to work https://www.reddit.com/r/sims2help/comments/1grccow/simpe_on_linux_wine/

A LLM should be able to help you with basic troubleshooting, I'd recommend Gemini over ChatGPT though.

Aside from that I'd just recommend choosing a distro that bundles your GPU drivers to make initial setup easier