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[–] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.