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What launchers do you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does Bottles do that others don't? I'm just curious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.