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Lutris maintainer: "I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not." (github.com)
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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I already stopped using Lutris for a while. Most of the things I try to install with it straight up don't work anymore.

Edit:

Anyway, is there an alternative to Lutris, besides installing games and programs with Steam?

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Bottles or Heoric Game Launcher

[–] versionc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Heroic is great. Bottles has the potential to be great but it needs umu, and I'm skeptical about them rewriting the project (rewrites are seldom a good sign of a FOSS project in my experience).

[–] naticus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I really enjoy Heroic. I moved to it when Lutris had a bug a couple years ago (hell, might be still in there) where it would flood my DNS server with over 1000 queries in under a second. It took me 2 weeks to really notice what was happening because as soon as it happened, suddenly I had no internet. At the time I was on Pihole which has a default flood control built in.

I kept going down a rabbit hole of researching Linux network problems, tried a dozen fixes, kept happening. Had to be very thorough and pay attention to what I was actively doing/using when it happened.

"Downside" of Heroic is I no longer have Ubisoftsupport. Also, fuck Ubisoft anyhow.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They already re-written it, or did they say they're going to re-write it?

[–] versionc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They're in the process of doing so, and they're a long way off from being finished. Frankly, I doubt we'll ever see a release.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 2 points 2 weeks ago

My number one tip with Bottles for anyone trying it for the first time, is to move anything you’re trying to run into the prefix it creates. It doesn’t behave well trying to run anything outside of it, even if you set the working directory.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

wine bottles