I started with Lutris, and dropped it about a year ago. Lutris tries too many things at once, and badly. If i want emulation, i prefer stuff like Retrodeck, which is a one-stop-shop for this usecase, and Heroic now can handle the same stuff as Lutris regarding PC games with less fiddling and an actually usable UI.

Faugus Launcher is my new light-weight addition, but it's place is not yet secure on my system. I would LOVE for Playnite to get ported over to Linux, it's the only piece of software i really, really miss from my Windows times.

Edit: Woohoo! https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/59

I'm planning to move to Linux in 2026 after P11 is done, and since Playnite is my personal blocker for the move, I will try to make some Linux version in 2026. Definitely not fully featured version on parity with Windows version of P11, and probably desktop mode only, but something daily drivable with Linux specific features (Wine/Proton integration for example). If that goes well, I'll start looking into P11 Avalonia porting proper say I mentioned in previous update.

I never got it to work with any game in my case :(

Both are honestly shit at this point. One is made by an insane idiot and the other has become vibe coded and is falling apart.