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I've been meaning to try this for a while, after many people emailed it in over the last few months. I finally sat down with it this weekend to give it a good run and honestly, I'm pretty impressed. While it claims it is "designed for elementary OS" it of course works across different distributions.
The first feature that really sticks out, is the friendly introduction when you load it up, instantly asking if you want to link it to different stores to pull games from:
This works really nicely too, I was able with a few clicks and logins be able to add my Steam, GOG and Humble accounts with relative ease.
One issue I wasn't particularly fond of, is how it becomes unresponsive on the first big sync of your games. I own a lot, sure, but that's going to need a pretty big improvement as I honestly thought it had crashed on me. Once settled though, it really is quite nice and makes it super easy to manage games across different sources.
For those who want to save their eyes a little strain, it does also offer up a one-click dark theme too which is quite lovely:
There's also a nice alternative list-view:
Outside of the usual stores, it also offers up support for running games through Wine/Proton, DOSBox, RetroArch and ScummVM as well so there's quite a lot of options available to you.
One of the major differences between GameHub and Lutris, is that GameHub will show your entire library from stores unlike Lutris where you specifically search for and add games. GameHub had no problems detecting all my games and showing if they were already installed in the case of Steam, complete with the achievements as you can see in the above pictures. I wasn't able to get it to pick up GOG games on a specific drive though, although I could manually import installed GOG games with a couple clicks so even that worked out okay.
Find it on GitHub here under the GPL. They make it real easy to try too, since it offers up a deb, AppImage and a Flatpak.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Mountain Man Mar 18, 2019
Has it really come to this?
buenaventura Mar 18, 2019
"I hear you like launchers, so here's a launcher for your launchers!"
Has it really come to this?
I didn't heard about any launcher for GOG or Humble Bundle for Linux.
Mohandevir Mar 18, 2019
Oh sweet! Is it controller friendly? For couch gaming, something like this would be pretty nice.
Yup. The beta branch has had controller support for months. Sadly most people wouldn't look at anything that isn't Lutris, because apparently choice is only good when it comes to your OS ;).
Mohandevir Mar 18, 2019
Oh sweet! Is it controller friendly? For couch gaming, something like this would be pretty nice.
Yup. The beta branch has had controller support for months. Sadly most people wouldn't look at anything that isn't Lutris, because apparently choice is only good when it comes to your OS ;).
From what I read and understand, ElementaryOS is an Ubuntu derivative? I wouldn't be affraid to try it, at least.
Still waiting for one of these game managers to have Itch integration.
That would be neat if it can also filter by native Linux games. The itch app has unfortunately become quite cumbersome to use, since it just lists everything you own, which can be a lot of Windows games if you bought any of the for charity mega bundles.
Comandante Ñoñardo Mar 18, 2019
Space marine works??
being working on lutris for about 3 months
Cecco_d_Ascoli Mar 18, 2019
Space marine works??
being working on lutris for about 3 months
Really? Under 'wine steam' (where I crash back to desktop)?
Or do you use another 'manager' - or a particular wine/proton version?
Much obliged.
Space marine works??
being working on lutris for about 3 months
Looks like it still needs a pirated/cracked version of the exe to work with Proton. No idea if Lutrix/DXVK has some extra magic that bypasses the DRM that prevent Proton from starting.
"I hear you like launchers, so here's a launcher for your launchers!"
Has it really come to this?
We need a single client that can launch Lutris launchers and GameHub launchers.
"I hear you like launchers, so here's a launcher for your launchers!"But wait, what if I like both Gamehub and Lutris? And there could be others in the future!
Has it really come to this?
Clearly I'll need a launcher for my launchers for my launchers!
Space marine works??
being working on lutris for about 3 months
Really? Under 'wine steam' (where I crash back to desktop)?
Or do you use another 'manager' - or a particular wine/proton version?
Much obliged.
No i use lutris and the script on there never had a problem
you will need the following
corefonts
d3dx9
tahoma
vcrun2005
vcrun2008
vcrun2010
also windows 7 then run it in 1024 x 768 to get it running then switch to what ever your screen resolution any kind of AA and it will crash.
Cecco_d_Ascoli Mar 19, 2019
Space marine works??
being working on lutris for about 3 months
Really? Under 'wine steam' (where I crash back to desktop)?
Or do you use another 'manager' - or a particular wine/proton version?
Much obliged.
No i use lutris and the script on there never had a problem
you will need the following
corefonts
d3dx9
tahoma
vcrun2005
vcrun2008
vcrun2010
also windows 7 then run it in 1024 x 768 to get it running then switch to what ever your screen resolution any kind of AA and it will crash.
Thank you, gonna give it a try this evening.
I guess I don't get all this "launcher for launchers" humour. It doesn't really launch the Steam client in order to launch Steam, does it? Personally, I love the thought of a single game launcher that can manage all my games---FOSS, itch.io, GoG, Steam, &c.--- in one place.
Last edited by Nanobang on 19 March 2019 at 12:08 pm UTC
TheRiddick Mar 20, 2019
"I hear you like launchers, so here's a launcher for your launchers!"
Has it really come to this?
Yes, every single fricken publisher wants their own fricken store software now, and are as disasterious as steam alpha version 0.1 at start.............
TheRiddick Mar 20, 2019
EDIT: Seems it might be just gamehub collecting the info so it can always login without needing to ask you to verify, since you did them all at once sort of thing.
Last edited by TheRiddick on 20 March 2019 at 12:47 am UTC
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