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Lutris, where would I be without you now? This excellent open source game launcher has another point release out to fix some bits up.

What's new and changed?

  • Avoid a crash if the lutris config file is corrupted
  • Install Asian fonts by default on Wine prefix creation
  • Add Vulkan ICD loaders in system options
  • Add SampleCount option to Wine (allows enabling antialiasing in old games)
  • Replace joystick panel with Wine config panel (which contains the joypad panel)
  • Display warning when installing games on NTFS drives
  • Display warning if Vulkan is not fully installed
  • Use ldconfig to determine library paths
  • Disable steamwebhelper in Wine Steam to prevent spamming logs with errors
  • Various bug fixes

Like me, have you found Lutris to be the one launcher to rule them all? Do let me know in the comments. I would be interested to know if Lutris has helped you or if you prefer something else.

For me personally, it's basically taken all the pain away of dealing with Wine for Overwatch and StarCraft II, two games sadly not on Linux that you can pry from my cold dead hands. Not just that though, managing games from so many sources has become more and more of a hassle, which Lutris kindly deals for me.

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Whitewolfe80 Apr 9, 2019
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: GuestArgh, still needs gnomedesktop as a dependency. As much as I want to try lutris, until that's no longer the case then I simply can't use it. Ah well, still a nice project anyway.

But it's just the library, not the whole desktop, I think? Like a single .so file?

It's a python binding, that pulls in some other things, that ends up pulling in most of the desktop support libraries, and at least for me wants to then include Ruby as well. Most of it is probably there for Debian based distros. I'm just grumbling.

I mean its one guy and his reasons for preferring python are long but if you tune into the linux game cast you ll find him happy to take feedback hes always in the chat there under the handle Stycore
Cloversheen Apr 9, 2019
Quoting: Whitewolfe80
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: GuestArgh, still needs gnomedesktop as a dependency. As much as I want to try lutris, until that's no longer the case then I simply can't use it. Ah well, still a nice project anyway.

But it's just the library, not the whole desktop, I think? Like a single .so file?

It's a python binding, that pulls in some other things, that ends up pulling in most of the desktop support libraries, and at least for me wants to then include Ruby as well. Most of it is probably there for Debian based distros. I'm just grumbling.

I mean its one guy and his reasons for preferring python are long but if you tune into the linux game cast you ll find him happy to take feedback hes always in the chat there under the handle Stycore

Well, that seems to depend on the feedback. For instance, not so much the discussion surrounding CSD: https://github.com/lutris/lutris/issues/1719
Whitewolfe80 Apr 9, 2019
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Whitewolfe80
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: GuestArgh, still needs gnomedesktop as a dependency. As much as I want to try lutris, until that's no longer the case then I simply can't use it. Ah well, still a nice project anyway.

But it's just the library, not the whole desktop, I think? Like a single .so file?

It's a python binding, that pulls in some other things, that ends up pulling in most of the desktop support libraries, and at least for me wants to then include Ruby as well. Most of it is probably there for Debian based distros. I'm just grumbling.

I mean its one guy and his reasons for preferring python are long but if you tune into the linux game cast you ll find him happy to take feedback hes always in the chat there under the handle Stycore

Nothing against python, and indeed there's evidence of Stycore getting annoyed on the subject of the "gnome desktop library" (no, it's not the entire desktop). It's basically just the dependency chain on Gentoo being a little too long for my personal taste. Obviously some of the deps are related to needing webkit-gtk (it has a browser of sorts after all), but I'm not sure what's trying to pull in so much of Ruby just yet.
(--edit: heh, it's webkit-gtk)

I do wonder if perhaps a non-graphical lutris might be able to strip some of the deps down, but still provide the core feature set.

It could be my coding is not upto the task but maybe worth asking around to see if someone can do the work
Maath Apr 10, 2019
I am trying to understand the problem that Lutris is there to solve. I thought it was the problem of avid Linux gamers being crushed under the weight of their massive digital game libraries, but I am not sure now.

First, does Lutris require a account? If so, why? I fail to understand why an application which serves to assist in managing my game collection requires an account on some remote site.

Second, at least one person here mentioned that it cannot automatically import your existing games. I thought this would be the number one most important feature. If you have hundreds or thousands of games, you do not want to import them into Lutris one-by-one.

If I am incorrect in my understanding of these features, I apologize. But if I am right, then I ask, how do people use Lutris? If you have a huge library, how do you get it into the database? Alternatively, is there another program that can manage a huge game library, and present a nice interface for selecting a game to play?
Ehvis Apr 10, 2019
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Quoting: MaathI am trying to understand the problem that Lutris is there to solve. I thought it was the problem of avid Linux gamers being crushed under the weight of their massive digital game libraries, but I am not sure now.

Mostly a launcher/manager of games. And for those that use wine, a manager of various wine builds and features.

Quoting: MaathFirst, does Lutris require a account?

No, the account is optional. With it, you can share your library between the website and the client.

Quoting: MaathSecond, at least one person here mentioned that it cannot automatically import your existing games. I thought this would be the number one most important feature.

It can, it's just not flawless.

Quoting: MaathAlternatively, is there another program that can manage a huge game library, and present a nice interface for selecting a game to play?

There is an article from a few weeks back that mentioned "Gamehub". It doesn't do the integrated Wine management though, so it's less useful for those looking for that.
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