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Is Crossover any good? Better than Lutris or PlayOnLinux? (www.codeweavers.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can understand Lutris sucking, but how is Bottles worse? Genuinely curious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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