At my job we have been told how we have to start using AI more. I can't really see any point. The only tasks AI can help me for are pointless tasks from HR that shouldn't exist in the first place. Monthly forms with questions like "how are you feeling emotionally", used to take me ages to come up with corpo bullshit friendly answers but locally hosted deepseek does it in seconds.

I guess I've just been behind the times, but I've never had an incentive to switch. I just installed faugus and transferred everything over and it seems very slick. It seems to be missing 1 or 2 things, like environment variables per-game, but all the other important stuff seems to be here. I know what I'm doing with prefixes so having all the knobs to turn is great, but honestly linux gaming does not need most of those knobs nowadays.

it is another thing to act with disrespect to everyone with a different opinion.

Unless that opinion is 'I like using AI', then they deserved the disrespect.

Utilitarianism really falls at the first hurdle of any kind of evaluation of a moral system.

It has no real prescriptive power because it demands you be able to correctly foresee the outcome of your actions, something literally addressed by "The road to hell is paved with good intentions", an adage of at least 400 years ago, and yet people will still gravitate towards it as if society did not explicitly caution us about that mindset forever now.

At this point I can't help but look down on those who genuinely identify as utilitarian as either too young, too stupid, or actively malevolent and trying to find a way to justify their bad behaviours as errors rather than malice or negligence.

I guess we know where to fork from.

Honestly: Why? Lutris Gnome headerbar UI sucks anyway. Looks and behaves like crap especially under Gamescope but in non-Gnome desktops it's not too great as well. GloriousEggroll and team created umu launcher to make creation of that sort of graphical front ends much easier and a bunch of those popped up already. Might just as well migrate to one of those than to maintain yet another software fork.

lutris -d will run it and print debug messages to the terminal.

I think the root of the problem is that updating changes what WINE and Proton versions are being used, even for games that are already installed. That pretty much negates what most people are using Lutris for. (WINE prefix management)

Someone suggested the program Warehouse to me, but I haven't tried it. On Arch, I still had the version I wanted in my package manager's cache so it was a single command.

sudo pacman -U file:///var/cache/pacman/pkg/lutris-0.5.19-9-any.pkg.tar.zst

If you are using the flatpak (Bazzite, Steam Deck, etc.) unfortunately, it's more complicated.

1. Exit to desktop mode.
2. Open Konsole (it's in System in the main menu).
3. If you haven't set a root password yet, run passwd, make it reasonably secure and don't forget it. I believe setting a root password enables the Deck to be controlled remotely over ssh with said password. Be safe.
4. Run flatpak remote-info --log flathub net.lutris.Lutris. Lutris was installed as system for me. I think that is the default, so probably choose 1 for system if it asks.
5. You will see a commit with the subject "Update Lutris to 0.5.20". The previous version is in the list right after that. Note that hash of 64 hexadecimals.
6. Run sudo flatpak update --commit=19ee79d455b8e50f057911a2bba279efcb960ee6d565f794e9c9d41c290dcd14 net.lutris.Lutris, supply the root password, and accept the changes. (Use the hash from step 5.)
7. Run sudo flatpak mask net.lutris.Lutris and supply root password to prevent Lutris from being updated. We will probably have problems in the future when the flatpak environment gets deprecated, sudo flatpak mask --remove net.lutris.Lutris would allow it to update again.

I'd imagine there have been more nonsensical (than AI = public domain) legal decisions that have had the full force of law for decades.

I recently dug around for a while, and if the copyright of works in the training data affects the copyright of outputs, no popular model can output anything that would even be close to acceptable for a contribution to an open-source project. Maybe if you trained a model exclusively on "The Stack" (NOT "The Pile") and then included all the required attributions -- but no ready-made model does that. All of the "open source" model frameworks that I could find included some amount of proprietary "pre-training" data that would also be an issue.

If AI output is NOT affected by the copyright of training data... there might not BE a (legal) person that can hold any copyrights over it, which is pretty close to public domain.

As of March 2, it has been settled. AI generated works must have substantial human creative input in order to be copyrightable. Prompting the AI does not meet that requirement.

https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/03/us-supreme-court-declines-to-consider-whether-ai-alone-can-create-copyrighted-works

In other words, if the AI wrote the code, and you didn’t change it since then, it’s not yours at all. It’s public domain, no question.

in 5 years from now there’s going to be totally coevolved but unique seed-lines for software. the once with AI, and the once without. how can you distinguish them? did the human that said it wrote them really write them? these problems aside, i suspect it will be forced to happen just from a security viewpoint, big companies won’t be able to get any kind of insurance anymore running AI-infested code.

is there a website like lutris has with all the install scripts others have made?

The system package for Lutris is version 5.14.... Hmmm...

• You want customisation? Use extensions
• We broke extensions, because
• Also, no API for extensions. Patch our code manually

No integrity in that see I, so drop them I do (Yoda voice)

The guy removed the attribution because he is being harassed

That may be, and he never mentions this in the now famous comment. Or was the message about Lutris being slop a harrasment? (question is genuine, I am somewhere in autistic spectrum)

The ‘fuck you’ move is the people harassing an open source dev

That is not a decent behaviour, no questions. His doing something preemptively in regards to something that he says he doesn't see as an issue - that's some bullshit. I am not against him using llm tools, but I am not ok with someone who can't just say "this is how I am doing things, these are my reasons and they are enough for me, so fuck off (and/or be banned, if GitHub has such a thing)" and instead goes on with some ill-reasoned tyrade. Before anyone brings this up: yes, he also mentions depression, which is no small thing, so demanding crystal-cut reasoning is also bullshit, but that is not my point, the latter being that the guy needs some care, and doesn't look like he understands that. Which means things are heading towards a disaster, sadly

I've already replaced lutris with Heroic launcher + proton and wine-ge a year ago.

Lutris install script already didn't work >50% of the time for me and battle.net always completely corrupts and messes up after a time on lutris and I have to reinstall it every few months, but has been going a year strong on heroic.

You can also always look at the lutris install scripts and install those components in heroic via winetricks. They were made by the community anyway.

For games. I have replaced it with steam as you can load none steam games and run them under proton. I have had great success. Outside of games I'm not sure.

Didn't look for one yet. As I understand, there is a thing called bottles that is worth a try

Build one yourself

Has most options that Lutris or Bottles present in their GUI at this point with less cruft like adding entire game libraries from other clients or the mostly useless and often outdated install scripts.

Gamescope doesn't work yet, despite having a toggle for it according to their github readme.