Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Up until recently, Lutris worked perfectly for me. Ever since around the release of Wine 11, though, cant get anything to even install, let alone play. This might explain my increasing frustration with the app.
Guess I’m going back to using Bottles for the odd game or app I don’t feel like trying to shoehorn into steam.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 days ago
I am very much a beginner, and until now lutris was kind of my default answer for “how the hell do I get that windows exe installer to spit its entrails so I can run it through wine” (or even native engines like VCMI, Daggerfall Unity and Creatures Docking Station).
For everything that doesn’t come from Steam, obviously.
What is the more direct way? Does Bottles do that? I haven’t tried it yet.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
There’s actually a number of options. Lutris and Bottles are both built on top of Wine. And there are other apps that use Wine to make it all work, but I’m not very familiar with anything else…yet!
Bottles can be a little tricky to get used to - one of the biggest issues is that it sandboxes the Wine runtime, so you’ll often need to move your .exe into the right file path. But, other than that I found it pretty easy to use! So if you need something that you can “drop in” to replace Lutris, it’s worth a try! It has some helpful preconfigured runtime environments, depending on if you are running a general propose application or a video game. For the power users, you can even start with a blank slate.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Interesting. I am mostly interested in running games. I’ll have a look into how Bottles work then.
I feel like for most if not all of my use cases that are not specific games, I can find some decent stuff running natively.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Oh, definitely. One of the best things about Linux and the free software movement, innit? But, the ‘applications’ order in bottles is great for that one tool that is just hard to live without, or some specific tool created by the community that may or may not ever get a native port (SAK.exe for managing Switch ROM files comes to mind for me).
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
If you’re talking about games, I usually just add the exe to Steam as a non-Steam game and enable proton for it