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Oh poop, been using lutris and it was pretty good at what it was doing for me. What might be alternatives though?
I just fucking install my games like normal with wine if needed.
What is wrong with people that you can't install something and add a .desktop entry on your system?
Lutris furfils several roles that a bunch of
.desktopentries will not.although i don't use it, you can log into your steam account (i think also gog?) to get access to games from there.
Think of it, as a more of a plex/jellyfin library for games than a bunch of video files spread around your hdd. I don't want to remember which games are wine friendly and which need proton or are linux native.