• _cryptagion [he/him]
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    22 months ago

    Looks good, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a compelling reason to use this over Heroic, if you already have that installed.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      I mean, Heroic straight up doesn’t work for me and I have no idea why. I’ve resorted to launching GOG through Steam and then installing and launching games through that. But it’s mega cursed so I might give this a go.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          I’ve never tried Bottles before. Does it differ meaningfully from winetricks/protontricks? That’s what I normally use to manage wine prefixes. Never managed to get GOG working with winetricks tho.

          • swab148
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            12 months ago

            It’s got it’s own dependency manager, and GOG is one of the pre-configured applications in the Gaming section, so it makes sure that everything needed to run GOG is there. I’ve never used winetricks/protontricks on their own, but I think the main difference is the sandboxed nature, the devs recommend installing Bottles as a flatpak, and then it makes it’s own prefixes within that environment. They also recommend making new bottles for each application, so like if you also wanted EGS or the EA store, you’d make new bottles for each of those rather than keeping them all under one “gaming” profile, for example. Here’s docs if you’re a reader like me:

  • @[email protected]
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    32 months ago

    Mmm they don’t mention achievement support…

    Heroic has some basic support with Comet, but I haven’t tried it yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    I haven’t been keeping up with the Linux gaming launchers space … do I understand that Lutris has been surpassed?

  • @[email protected]
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    162 months ago

    I really like Heroic because I don’t want a separate app for each store. It’s already annoying enough steam is a separate app.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      I understand that, a playnite style launcher to get all your game in one place would be awesome

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Yes, I’ve searched and found nothing like Playnite.

        I am still hoping for the cross platform feature that may be for the roadmap after the next big release

  • MudMan
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    312 months ago

    Is it worth using over Heroic? Is there a use case where this works and Heroic doesn’t?

    • mox
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      132 months ago

      Assuming it works as advertised, I would use this one, in part because it’s not a bloated Electron app like Heroic. (This one is written in Python, and presumably not so wasteful of system resources.)

      • MudMan
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        42 months ago

        Ah. So Linux hangups.

        I’ll thake that as a no, then.

    • @[email protected]
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      182 months ago

      I don’t think so, no. It seems like it’s just a simpler installer that focuses on one service, instead of several.