• neo (he/him)
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    1110 months ago

    On linux, for gaming? Not any better than Proton.

    On Mac? I have no personal experience but I believe it’s good there.

    • @[email protected]
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      610 months ago

      I’ve only used CrossOver on Linux and actually find it harder to use than Lutris. There’s some crazy stuff like needing to declare environment variables inside a configuration file instead of having a GUI for it. But if you look at CodeWeavers’ blog and release notes, you’ll see them constantly making changes to improve gaming on macOS. That’s where they seem to be devoting most of their energy these days. CrossOver on Linux worked for Microsoft Office when I needed to use it, but that was the only reason I bought it.

      I still think it was a worthwhile purchase, if only to support further Wine development. CodeWeavers has a great article about the differences between CrossOver and other Wine distributions: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/alasky/2019/3/21/wine-crossover-and-proton-whats-the-relation

      PlayOnLinux is no longer under active development (even Phoenics seems to have been stale for a while now), and Steam’s Proton, Lutris, or Bottles are what you should use on Linux nowadays.

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        10 months ago

        I find Lutris so extremely annoying. I feel like sometimes it just never does what you tell it to do. Bottles is even worse, I simply feel like I am being crippled in possible actions you can perform.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          Is your issue that Lutris is buggy or limiting? I haven’t encountered buggy behavior in Lutris, and it gives you a ton of options. I like some parts of bottles but I would really like to be able to change cover art without editing a config file, lol. It’s definitely the easiest way to get started with Wine though.

          There’s Heroic Games Launcher too, by the way. It has less features than Lutris but it’s probably easier to use? It’s also prettier than Lutris, I think. What issues were you having with Lutris?

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            To me, Lutris has always been a very stubborn application.

            • Saying a game is running while its not
            • saying a game is not running while it is
            • unclear library override versioning (whats the difference between disabled and Manual, why can’t I provide my own version from the UI directly then)
            • hard to troubleshoot as I cannot see at a glance how Wine is invoked and the logs tend to be hard to read inside the logs popup window
            • hard to see what winetricks is trying to do when invoked from it

            Yet, when I say it gets the job done I mean it. But the program itself adds some more headaches, yet I need it as I don’t know how to do half of what it does from a terminal and/ore scripts only.

          • @[email protected]
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            310 months ago

            I feel like its way too streamlined. And with its UI I feel like I have very little choices in how it operates.

  • Presi300
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    710 months ago

    Do not use PlayOnLinux, it’s dead and doesn’t work. Use lutris an/or steam…

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      Just what I came to say. Heroic launcher and bottles are my go to. Have not had much luck with Lutris on the Deck.

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    10 months ago

    Crossover and Wine are the OG compatibility layers for Windows gameplay on Linux, and while I can’t vouch for either one now, as Wine is the only one I used–back in the days of the original Unreal, I can say now that Steam’s Proton is fairly straightforward and simple. Pretty much, unless it has some sort of anti-cheat malware, like BattleEye, everything “just works.” … and usually, if the game employs anti-cheat, and they catch you playing (fairly) on Linux, you’re usually banned.