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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[+] -9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I just fucking install my games like normal with wine if needed.

What is wrong with people that you can't install something and add a .desktop entry on your system?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I simply can't take the one-prefix-fits-all approach. Some games play way nicer with older wine versions (especially 32bit games. From the top of my head, The Sims 1 works better for me with Wine 8). A prefix manager is really helpful for managing prefixes with different wine versions that don't clog up the rest of the system.

    But go off being an ass, I guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I use wine with winetricks for the manager and the other stuff that makes it easier. I also use q4wine. It's a GUI for wine written in Qt. Both makes things simpler to varying degrees, and winetricks does have some scripts (though I don't know how they would compare to lutris)

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago*

    Lutris furfils several roles that a bunch of .desktop entries will not.

    • Its a list of games
    • you can search it by title
    • you can tag them
    • you can sort them in different ways
    • you can use wine for some launches, proton for others or native

    although i don't use it, you can log into your steam account (i think also gog?) to get access to games from there.

    Think of it, as a more of a plex/jellyfin library for games than a bunch of video files spread around your hdd. I don't want to remember which games are wine friendly and which need proton or are linux native.

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