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Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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Lutris is an all-in-one open source game manager for launching games from various stores on Linux, with version 0.5.20 out now.

This release overhauls how it runs GE-Proton, making use of the modern umu launcher to keep it all running nicely. So it should, in theory, offer a better experience than before when running Windows games. It also improves support for Wayland, adds support for the ZOOM Platform store, there's improvements for the EA App, some settings have been cleaned up and much more.

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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I’m still not sure I’ve actually understood the point of Lutris. I’m not hating on it. I have it. I just don’t really know what to do with it.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Have you ever tried installing a Windows game manually with Wine? You need to create a wine prefix, install dependencies (msvc runtime, dotnet, fonts, etc) and maybe create a launcher script. Lutris helps you do this all through a UI.

    It's not the only tool, and Steam does the same now by allowing you to add non-Steam games to your library and configure them to use Proton. But Lutris has been around longer than that feature, and it's fully open source and independent. It also has a library of community scripts which automatically apply game-specific tweaks to work around known issues.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Update: I see GOGs client gog galaxy doesn’t work on Linux (why?) and I used Lutris to access my GOG games. Brilliant.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    GOG have historically been Linux haters. With the recent change in ownership, it seems that might be changing, and if true it means the ones who were anti-Linux were probably CDPR rather than the GOG team.

    In any case, GOG games work well through Lutris for me, but there's also Heroic as an alternative.

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    • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    finally, now I don't have to keep 2 freedesktop versions. steam and lutris both use 25.08 now.

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    [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Its funny... I predict that we never gonna have a linux year but when we look in few years we realise that we are all on linux already

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