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What's the point of Lutris? As a game manager it gives you a central place to configure and play all your games from different places. This includes emulators, different stores (Humble, Steam, GOG etc) along with many extra helpful features to get the most out of your games.
Here's a list of what's new in 0.5.13 Beta:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
- Add support for Proton.
- Add drag and drop on the main window.
- Add support for ModDB links in installers (moddb python module required).
- Added "Missing" sidebar option for games whose directory is missing.
- Re-style the configuration, preferences, installer and add-games windows.
- Group configuration options into sections.
- Added checkbox to stop asking for the launch config for a game.
- Support for launch-configs in shortcuts and the command line.
- The add-games window can now create 32-bit WINE prefixes.
- Add filter field to runner list.
- Show game count in search bar.
- Workaround Humble Bundle authentication issues by allowing importing cookies from Firefox.
- Add Itch.io integration.
- Add Battle.net integration (protobuf dependency required).
- Improve detection of DOSBox games on GOG.
- Added "Unspecified" Vulkan ICD option.
- Removed ResidualVM (now merged into ScummVM).
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Hmm. What does "Proton support" mean in this context? Surely not Valves Proton as it must run inside the Steam Runtime to work properly. Custom versions like GE Proton (built to run outside the Steam Runtime) were already downloadable in Lutris earlier versions.
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BlackBloodRum 12 Feb
Nice! Glad to see it finally got itch.io integration after all this time! I don't think the proton will make much difference to me as my lutris usually runs custom installed dxvk, vk3d and wine versions.
Lutris and Bottles are my two managers though, for launching games however both are more of an "in the background" kind of thing. I use them to setup the games and such, then just stick non-steam game shortcuts in my steam client and add the artwork. Since all of them run through flatpak, it all works nicely together.
I got sick of managing multiple launchers and trying to remember what is in which so I just added everything to one.
(Thus, I only need to open Steam in order to launch any given game on my computer)
Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 12 February 2023 at 2:42 pm UTC
Lutris and Bottles are my two managers though, for launching games however both are more of an "in the background" kind of thing. I use them to setup the games and such, then just stick non-steam game shortcuts in my steam client and add the artwork. Since all of them run through flatpak, it all works nicely together.
I got sick of managing multiple launchers and trying to remember what is in which so I just added everything to one.
(Thus, I only need to open Steam in order to launch any given game on my computer)
Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 12 February 2023 at 2:42 pm UTC
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Quoting: dpanterHmm. What does "Proton support" mean in this context? Surely not Valves Proton as it must run inside the Steam Runtime to work properly. Custom versions like GE Proton (built to run outside the Steam Runtime) were already downloadable in Lutris earlier versions.
From what I know/remember, the "real" Proton versions from GE haven't worked properly for some years now. Instead they provide special wine-ge-proton, not to be confused with proton-ge-custom (https://github.com/lutris/lutris/pull/3330#issuecomment-1000004873).
The new commits for Proton support are a bit sparse in commentary, but it seems lutris is looking for a Steam install and setting up an appropriate environment (https://github.com/lutris/lutris/commit/3726f85bfb37f9407755c97098a40808e97871bb). I only skimmed the commits, so could've missed something.
Edit: some links.
Last edited by iskaputt on 12 February 2023 at 2:49 pm UTC
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after heroic launcher got sideloaded game support I honestly don't feel any need in lutris so far. I don't use it, I still keep it installed just in case something won't work on heroic. Sure, lutris has game options UI with more fine tuning stuff, but heroic feels way more streamlined.
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slaapliedje 13 Feb
Quoting: dpanterHmm. What does "Proton support" mean in this context? Surely not Valves Proton as it must run inside the Steam Runtime to work properly. Custom versions like GE Proton (built to run outside the Steam Runtime) were already downloadable in Lutris earlier versions.Pretty sure Proton can run just fine outside of Steam. I don't recall heroic launcer launching Steam to run Proton. It is after all just a fork of Wine.
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Quoting: HxEafter heroic launcher got sideloaded game support I honestly don't feel any need in lutris so far. I don't use it, I still keep it installed just in case something won't work on heroic. Sure, lutris has game options UI with more fine tuning stuff, but heroic feels way more streamlined.Same. I'd probably only use it for emulators, and I still have a few games setup with emulators for that. I would've set up more if the process for adding game is more straightforward as in Heroic, but it's just such a hassle that I don't want to bother with it.
I'll probably just go and use Steam ROM Manager to import them all to Steam while using Heroic to manage my Wine and Linux games which is then piped to Steam as well.
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Quoting: BloomberyI'm use PortProton
Same. I find port-proton to be the most streamlined option of every app I've discovered so far as it works essentially like in windows where simply double clicking an app launches it but also gives you the power to set launch options (and even parameters in a text file) as you please. Its a very simple to use tool but that is particularly powerful as well. The dev is even working to get rid of dependencies entirely and integrate VR into it so that most VR devices will work out of the box. Highly recommend!
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hardpenguin 13 Feb
Quoteitch.io integrationSomeone is putting up a fight against Heroic 😁
I was waiting for this functionality for long!
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Arcadius-8606 13 Feb
Hmm I don't like launchers but my itch.io library is quite large. Maybe this will give me more of an incentive to check out other titles I already got.
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