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Bottles or Heoric Game Launcher
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).
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.
They already re-written it, or did they say they're going to re-write it?
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.
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.