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I’m still not sure I’ve actually understood the point of Lutris. I’m not hating on it. I have it. I just don’t really know what to do with it.
Have you ever tried installing a Windows game manually with Wine? You need to create a wine prefix, install dependencies (msvc runtime, dotnet, fonts, etc) and maybe create a launcher script. Lutris helps you do this all through a UI.
It's not the only tool, and Steam does the same now by allowing you to add non-Steam games to your library and configure them to use Proton. But Lutris has been around longer than that feature, and it's fully open source and independent. It also has a library of community scripts which automatically apply game-specific tweaks to work around known issues.
Ah. Thanks. Good explanation. I think apart from Steam, or Linux native I’ve only used Bottles before. This makes it clear.
Update: I see GOGs client gog galaxy doesn’t work on Linux (why?) and I used Lutris to access my GOG games. Brilliant.
GOG have historically been Linux haters. With the recent change in ownership, it seems that might be changing, and if true it means the ones who were anti-Linux were probably CDPR rather than the GOG team.
In any case, GOG games work well through Lutris for me, but there's also Heroic as an alternative.
finally, now I don't have to keep 2 freedesktop versions. steam and lutris both use 25.08 now.
Its funny... I predict that we never gonna have a linux year but when we look in few years we realise that we are all on linux already
Never have I been happier to be proven wrong
