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.
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
What does Bottles do that others don’t? I’m just curious.
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.
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.
Honestly I’m not totally sure, I’ve heard that it handles sand boxing differently but I don’t know the details
I just know that on occasion I’ve had some windows programs fail to install while using lutris, and I’ve tried bottles and it worked, I probably could still get it to work in lutris if I tried, but It works most of the time in my experience so It’s the first piece of troubleshooting I try
I’ve been using steam and heroic games launcher
Personally I like to have as few launchers as possible for my games, lol. I have Steam and Lutris right now, but I’ll probably install Heroic at some point for Epic Games content. I prefer the UI of Heroic to Lutris for GoG/Epic games, plus it’s stupidly easy to claim the free Epic game from Heroic. I haven’t tried it from Lutris to compare.
As I said in another comment, I probably would just run Steam/Heroic if it wasn’t for World of Warcraft. Lutris is the easiest way to get it up and running on Linux.
I usually just use Steam or Lutris.
Heroic is also pretty good though. Especially the UI
I use steam, and if something I want to play isn’t there, I throw it in a bottle.
SteamOS launcher is awesome.
I like to use steam and heroic for all the games i bought that have drm. Bottles is my nextstop for all the non legit content,since its all sandboxed i can feel safe running content from source that arent safe.
Only Steam. You can get non-steam Windows games running using Proton too. I had trouble getting Ubisoft (AC Valhalla in particular) working with Lutris and Wine, but it was super easy with Steam using the “add non-steam game” option and trying different Proton versions till one worked (might’ve had to use a GloriousEggroll version, don’t remember).
Like you, I only use Steam and Lutris. I use Steam for basically everything, even some non-steam games like Gears of War 1, and then I use Lutris for other games like BattleNet games and some Ubisoft games like Assassins Creed Valhalla.
Never heard of Heroic, I just rock the same setup as you. Steam for games I have there, Lutris for everything else except Minecraft (for which I use MultiMC).
I use Steam for probably 80% of the games that I play regularly,
PrismLauncher for Minecraft (modded and vanilla java),
Heroic for gog and Epic,
Lutris for BattleNet (as well as the original non-“Resurrected” Diablo 2), Amazon Games App (free twitch/prime gaming games), EA App (got a few free games through EA Origin several years back), Ubisoft Connect, and the launcher version of Minecraft Dungeons. I’ve always found the lutris interface a little clunky and unintuitive, but games and things will usually work okay if I can get them installed (which will often take me a few failed attempts before I work it out).and finally the official itch.io app is really very good, lets you choose native linux versions of games that have 'em, as well as rather seamlessly making wine prefixes for windows versions of games.
I did also used to use EmulationStation Desktop Edition as a front-end for a few different emulators, but it seems I didn’t reinstall it when I did my latest OS reinstall a few months ago, I guess I’ve just been playing a lot more newer games (or just running retroarch without es-de).
I just use Steam with Proton
I use Steam and Heroic on my Deck, didn’t tried anything else now, should I try Lutris? I’ve heard good things about it, but for now using Steam and Heroic for my GoG games seems enough.
Lutris is great especially if you have games that need a little tweaking that aren’t a part of Steam, GoG, or Epic. If all your games are on one of those three, I’d stick with Steam/Heroic personally.
Lutris is the easiest way to get WoW up and running on Linux, for example. If it weren’t for that, I probably wouldn’t have Lutris on my PC.
Yeah, I would like to try Diablo IV on my Deck one day, I’ll try with Lutris, should be easier than installing battle.net and the game manually.
It’ll be loads easier. The Lutris installer is set up to automatically handle an error that Battle.net throws when you try to launch it, some BS about the way they package their QT platform. It’s just a terminal command away from being fixed, but future updates run a real risk of breaking it again. It happened to me, and I spent ~30 minutes trying to get it to work again before I gave up and just… Reinstalled the damned thing with Lutris, and it worked like a charm.
Speaking of Diablo, I got a notification while I was typing this message… 😂
Okay, I’ll definitely try Lutris then 😁
I just played my first hour! ITS SO GOOD OMG…
but back to the topic lol… Yes I WAY prefer the lutris method to get battle net going. You just one click install it basically, whereas on steam it’s a whole process of finding different launching files, etc… Much worse.
BUT AGAIN D4 IS SO GOOOOOOOOD
I wish I wasn’t boycotting Blizzard.
I’m not going to bend about it, but part of me is curious what the hubbub is about. I’m surprised they’re still capable of putting out a good game tbh.
I guess it depends on where your games are. I have a few games on epic and gog, and for that Heroic works great. So personally, I just use that and steam. The nice thing about heroic is that it lets me select steam’s installed proton versions, so I don’t have to install proton multiple times.
At the end of the day though, if you can launch the games you want to play, stick with what you got.
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I couldn’t get Minigalaxy to install any of my games when I tried it a year or so ago. I ended up just using Heroic Games Launcher and linking my GoG account to that, works like a charm.
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