Lutris is an interesting open source application to help you manage your games from different sources, and they have released a fresh batch of builds.
It's an interesting project, but is something so general to try to cover everything needed? I can understand the reasoning of wanting to have all your games to launch in one place, so it will be fun to see where the project goes.
On the menu today is version 0.3.5 and it's an interesting one, but not for big fancy new features, but for spit and polish.
QuoteIts a couple months late but it's finally here! Lutris 0.3.5! So what's new? What took so long? Well, feature wise, not that much is new. We took what we had in Lutris 0.3.4 and made it better: lots of testing went into this release and we tried to fix any annoyances we could find. The goal was to build solid foundations for things to come, and believe me when I say there are lots of them!
Have you tried it? Let us know what you think it's like.
Official About
Lutris is an open gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It aims at supporting as many games as possible thanks to emulators and providing a simple and reliable experience when installing games.
The project combines the lutris.net website, a Linux client and game runners which are provided by your distribution or by Lutris itself. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: lavetheres a lot different to steam
1. you can launch titles that are not on steam
2. launch titels that are from different platforms (and run through emulators)
3. it used gtk thus fits into your os nicely
4. its open source
5. it loads instantly and uses less recources
i would be agree that someone who uses and likes steam a lot and only plays game that are in his steam libary, lutris is kinda redundant. for everyone else this can be quite nice tho, and if you buy drm free games on humblebundle/gog this may even be way better for you than steam.
But you can add non-steam games to steam client too.
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Interesting idea, but this app sorely needs a feature to scan the system and add the games already installed. There's just no way I'm manually adding each game in my Steam client, and it's no point in just adding my current favourites.
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@Kossak: The current major interests of Lutris are that:
* it's libre
* it manages emulators, including those that aren't packaged for your distro.
But we're only at the beginning. Okay, if you only have very few games outside Steam, it may be a long time before Lutris becomes interesting to you; otherwise you should check our progress from time to time as we have a lot of planned features that will make Lutris unique and progressively more useful to more people.
@DrMcCoy: We had ScummVM games import at some point, I don't remember why Strider removed it entirely. I'm summoning him for some insight.
@Beamboom: Steam games installation state synchronization seems feasible, it should be added at some point.
@crabel: Thanks for the "BaseInstallFolder" tip, we'll use this. :)
* it's libre
* it manages emulators, including those that aren't packaged for your distro.
But we're only at the beginning. Okay, if you only have very few games outside Steam, it may be a long time before Lutris becomes interesting to you; otherwise you should check our progress from time to time as we have a lot of planned features that will make Lutris unique and progressively more useful to more people.
@DrMcCoy: We had ScummVM games import at some point, I don't remember why Strider removed it entirely. I'm summoning him for some insight.
@Beamboom: Steam games installation state synchronization seems feasible, it should be added at some point.
@crabel: Thanks for the "BaseInstallFolder" tip, we'll use this. :)
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Well it seems that the most requested feature is automatically importing existing games, so I guess that you'll appreciate the next version as it's one of the main features planned :)
We'll re-introduce the ScummVM import as well, don't remember the exact reason why I chose to remove the feature in the first place but since it fits nicely with the other planned features, let's bring it back!
Besides that, it seems that was causing the most trouble was our updates of Gtk code. We have developed this version with Ubuntu 14.04 / Fedora 20 in mind and it seems that nobody tested the software on an older distribution. Shouldn't be too hard to bring back a sane amount of compatibility with older versions of Gtk.
We'll re-introduce the ScummVM import as well, don't remember the exact reason why I chose to remove the feature in the first place but since it fits nicely with the other planned features, let's bring it back!
Besides that, it seems that was causing the most trouble was our updates of Gtk code. We have developed this version with Ubuntu 14.04 / Fedora 20 in mind and it seems that nobody tested the software on an older distribution. Shouldn't be too hard to bring back a sane amount of compatibility with older versions of Gtk.
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I think detecting and starting games is the first important things.
I didn't yet take a look at it, but what I would wish for after this is better organization/filtering of games than Steam does.
I didn't yet take a look at it, but what I would wish for after this is better organization/filtering of games than Steam does.
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Hi there ! Just letting you – who subscribed to this thread – know that a new version of Lutris is available, with a lot of fixes and new features including the detection of installed (Linux) Steam games. The full changelog is on our home page.
Let us know what you think about it, what you'd like to see next, etc. :)
Let us know what you think about it, what you'd like to see next, etc. :)
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