Lutris and Steam. Also tried Bottles with very mixed results and Heroic Games Launcher that sometimes just works and then sometimes just doesn't. Never tried PlayOnLinux, is there any advantage to it?
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I used PlayOnLinux exclusively a few years ago. It serves the same function as Lutris, essentially, but Lutris tends to be... Better, and easier to work with in my experience.
I usually just use Steam or Lutris.
Heroic is also pretty good though. Especially the UI
For Minecraft I use PrismLauncher
I just use Steam with Proton
I've been using steam and heroic games launcher
SteamOS launcher is awesome.
I like to use steam and heroic for all the games i bought that have drm. Bottles is my nextstop for all the non legit content,since its all sandboxed i can feel safe running content from source that arent safe.
I use steam, and if something I want to play isn't there, I just throw it in a bottle.
Personally I like to have as few launchers as possible for my games, lol. I have Steam and Lutris right now, but I'll probably install Heroic at some point for Epic Games content. I prefer the UI of Heroic to Lutris for GoG/Epic games, plus it's stupidly easy to claim the free Epic game from Heroic. I haven't tried it from Lutris to compare.
As I said in another comment, I probably would just run Steam/Heroic if it wasn't for World of Warcraft. Lutris is the easiest way to get it up and running on Linux.
I use Steam for probably 80% of the games that I play regularly,
PrismLauncher for Minecraft (modded and vanilla java),
Heroic for gog and Epic,
Lutris for BattleNet (as well as the original non-"Resurrected" Diablo 2), Amazon Games App (free twitch/prime gaming games), EA App (got a few free games through EA Origin several years back), Ubisoft Connect, and the launcher version of Minecraft Dungeons. I've always found the lutris interface a little clunky and unintuitive, but games and things will usually work okay if I can get them installed (which will often take me a few failed attempts before I work it out).
and finally the official itch.io app is really very good, lets you choose native linux versions of games that have 'em, as well as rather seamlessly making wine prefixes for windows versions of games.
I did also used to use EmulationStation Desktop Edition as a front-end for a few different emulators, but it seems I didn't reinstall it when I did my latest OS reinstall a few months ago, I guess I've just been playing a lot more newer games (or just running retroarch without es-de).
Never heard of Heroic, I just rock the same setup as you. Steam for games I have there, Lutris for everything else except Minecraft (for which I use MultiMC).
Only Steam and Lutris here as well. I've tried using Bottles but I couldn't get it to run anything to save my life.
Steam, Lutris for league of legends and GOG's games and even Heroic Launcher for GOG's games with cloud sync for save data of games or Epic. Everyone works very well on Arch.
Only Steam. You can get non-steam Windows games running using Proton too. I had trouble getting Ubisoft (AC Valhalla in particular) working with Lutris and Wine, but it was super easy with Steam using the "add non-steam game" option and trying different Proton versions till one worked (might've had to use a GloriousEggroll version, don't remember).
I use Steam and Heroic on my Deck, didn't tried anything else now, should I try Lutris? I've heard good things about it, but for now using Steam and Heroic for my GoG games seems enough.
Lutris is great especially if you have games that need a little tweaking that aren't a part of Steam, GoG, or Epic. If all your games are on one of those three, I'd stick with Steam/Heroic personally.
Lutris is the easiest way to get WoW up and running on Linux, for example. If it weren't for that, I probably wouldn't have Lutris on my PC.
Yeah, I would like to try Diablo IV on my Deck one day, I'll try with Lutris, should be easier than installing battle.net and the game manually.
It'll be loads easier. The Lutris installer is set up to automatically handle an error that Battle.net throws when you try to launch it, some BS about the way they package their QT platform. It's just a terminal command away from being fixed, but future updates run a real risk of breaking it again. It happened to me, and I spent ~30 minutes trying to get it to work again before I gave up and just... Reinstalled the damned thing with Lutris, and it worked like a charm.
Speaking of Diablo, I got a notification while I was typing this message... 😂
Okay, I'll definitely try Lutris then 😁
I just played my first hour! ITS SO GOOD OMG...
but back to the topic lol.......... Yes I WAY prefer the lutris method to get battle net going. You just one click install it basically, whereas on steam it's a whole process of finding different launching files, etc... Much worse.
BUT AGAIN D4 IS SO GOOOOOOOOD
I wish I wasn't boycotting Blizzard.
I'm not going to bend about it, but part of me is curious what the hubbub is about. I'm surprised they're still capable of putting out a good game tbh.
I use Steam, Heroic and Lutris. I really like Lutris but I use it for other platforms that aren’t available on Heroic
Steam for most games. GDLauncher or ATLauncher for Minecraft (I have both installed, mostly use GDLauncher though), and my emulators are installed separately and I just launch them from my dock.
Steam and lutris. Lately only steam, as I'm using steam deck as my desktop and it's just so much easier when everything is in one place.
But lutris for wow classic and gw2 worked very well. Also on my previous laptop.
I guess I'm just not gaming that much anymore to need anything specific.
I use Steam and Lutris (but mostly Steam). Want to get Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Escape from Tarkov to work, but can't make them to open 😕 Will try out Diablo IV some day. Have only heard good things about it so far.
I guess it depends on where your games are. I have a few games on epic and gog, and for that Heroic works great. So personally, I just use that and steam. The nice thing about heroic is that it lets me select steam's installed proton versions, so I don't have to install proton multiple times.
At the end of the day though, if you can launch the games you want to play, stick with what you got.
Like you, I only use Steam and Lutris. I use Steam for basically everything, even some non-steam games like Gears of War 1, and then I use Lutris for other games like BattleNet games and some Ubisoft games like Assassins Creed Valhalla.
Steam and sometimes bottles. But since you can add non steam apps its basically only steam when it comes to gaming.
Literally just steam and lutris, everything else tends to crap out on me.
Steam and Lutris here, Used to use PlayOnLinux but I find lutris a lot nicer.
For Steam, there's not much of a question; they have a native app that gets the job done.
For Epic and Gog, Heroic makes a good launcher in general.
For Amazon games, I use the "nile" launcher.
As for EA, I've managed to install the EA App manually to a fresh 64-bit prefix; I just made sure that I run "winetricks d3dcompiler_47" in that prefix, and that DXVK is installed.
I only really use Steam myself anymore, now that I'm gaming primarily on my steam deck. That said, I understand that Bottles is the most compatible solution for Battle.net support, so I may add that to my list down the line. I have nothing against Lutris, I used it plenty in the past, I've just moved past needing it for the most part.
mainly just using steam, and if i need to i use lutris. tried bottles a few times but its kinda buggy for me
I use lutris and steam. I usually make steam shortcuts in lutris so i can have custom controller layouts
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