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What software tools do you use that are gaming related? (piefed.social)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by BurgerBaron@piefed.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Anything to make gaming easier, especially non-Steam. I'll list what I know of so far:

Bottles.

Faugus Launcher. UMU-Launcher GUI, which is kinda like Bottles but for proton specifically instead of WINE. It's early dev and lacks functional GameScope for now, but Bottles I noticed really doesn't like me using proton so this was an alternative I found.

This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.

MangoHUD of course.

Heroic Games Launcher.

Lutris.

I have Itch.io's launcher too.

ProtonUp Qt - grab various versions of WINE or proton for all these applications.

Winboat - Trying some experimental fuckery to use Vortex but I've not got that far yet, just got Winboat itself set up so far. edit: It worked surprisingly, modded Skyrim Special Edition, see my other comments here.

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[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago
  • MangoHUD
  • Heroic Game Launcher
  • Ludusavi
  • rdmodman
  • Bottles
  • Proton Plus and ProtonUp Qt
  • GPU Screen Recorder
[–] chronotron@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

what's the point in having bottles, lutris, faugus, unu gui, and heroic all at the same time? i just use heroic and steam for every game other than minecraft

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

IMO, the best and quickest way to determine what I actually want to use and to learn rapidly is by using everything I can find and then tossing the redundants.

Faugus is just a GUI front end of umu launcher which is only CLI.

I pirate games and also own a lot of old games on disc so I can't only use Heroic/Steam.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

You can launch most games through Steam if you "add non steam game to library"

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Batocera has been pretty great for organizing and playing retro emulators on cheap consumer hardware like a raspberry pi, works with my preferred controllers like leverless for fighting and something like this for everything else

USB video game controller with 3 shoulder buttons per side and 4 back buttons for a b x y so you can keep your thumbs on the sticks

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Discord

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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I wrote a vod renamer app that also automatically logs me into SC2 after closing the blizzard app's ad.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

What about non-gaming software? I do some video editing for work occasionally and am often handed projects started in Premiere. They want it back in Premiere, so I can’t switch my main desktop over because of this.

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