Seems like every week over on GamingOnLinux there’s an announcement of a new launcher.
Personally I only use Steam & Lutris. Lutris for my gog games and BattleNet, Steam for everything else.
I don’t know of a good reason to use Heroic, or any of the other new ones over Lutris / Steam, but maybe I’m missing out.
Lutris on pc. Lutris and Steam on the steamed dick.
On the steamed what now?!?!?
The username sheds some light on it I believe.
I use Lutris, Bottles, Heroic, and Steam depending
Heroic I use for the regular free game from epic, Steam for steam games, Lutris and Bottles I pretty much use for everything else, starting on one, and if it doesn’t work (as happens sometimes) trying the other
Probably not the most efficient way to do things, but it works for me
What does Bottles do that others don’t? I’m just curious.
It’s more convenient than Lutris for installing adhoc games, or multiple games in one bottle. Don’t get me wrong, when Lutris works out of the box it’s great, but oftentimes there’s no recipe on Lutris for a game (eg when they’re relatively unknown or new games) or the recipe is severely dated.
Honestly I’m not totally sure, I’ve heard that it handles sand boxing differently but I don’t know the details
I just know that on occasion I’ve had some windows programs fail to install while using lutris, and I’ve tried bottles and it worked, I probably could still get it to work in lutris if I tried, but It works most of the time in my experience so It’s the first piece of troubleshooting I try
I find that Bottles is more like just setting up your own wine prefix and keeping it organized. I was a Lutris user for years, but switched to Bottles last year and never looked back.
I’ve been using steam and heroic games launcher
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 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 just use Steam with Proton
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?
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.
SteamOS launcher is awesome.
I usually just use Steam or Lutris.
Heroic is also pretty good though. Especially the UI
For Minecraft I use PrismLauncher
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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.
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).
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.
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 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.
