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[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

On linux, for gaming? Not any better than Proton.

On Mac? I have no personal experience but I believe it's good there.

[–] Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've only used CrossOver on Linux and actually find it harder to use than Lutris. There's some crazy stuff like needing to declare environment variables inside a configuration file instead of having a GUI for it. But if you look at CodeWeavers' blog and release notes, you'll see them constantly making changes to improve gaming on macOS. That's where they seem to be devoting most of their energy these days. CrossOver on Linux worked for Microsoft Office when I needed to use it, but that was the only reason I bought it.

I still think it was a worthwhile purchase, if only to support further Wine development. CodeWeavers has a great article about the differences between CrossOver and other Wine distributions: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/alasky/2019/3/21/wine-crossover-and-proton-whats-the-relation

PlayOnLinux is no longer under active development (even Phoenics seems to have been stale for a while now), and Steam's Proton, Lutris, or Bottles are what you should use on Linux nowadays.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I find Lutris so extremely annoying. I feel like sometimes it just never does what you tell it to do. Bottles is even worse, I simply feel like I am being crippled in possible actions you can perform.

[–] Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is your issue that Lutris is buggy or limiting? I haven't encountered buggy behavior in Lutris, and it gives you a ton of options. I like some parts of bottles but I would really like to be able to change cover art without editing a config file, lol. It's definitely the easiest way to get started with Wine though.

There's Heroic Games Launcher too, by the way. It has less features than Lutris but it's probably easier to use? It's also prettier than Lutris, I think. What issues were you having with Lutris?

[–] Megasthenes@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Lutris is a constant PITA throwing meainingless error code 256s.

Started doing this some months ago and caused that I'm not able anymore to play my favourite games from GOG, despite all efforts to work around it. Just plain old stuff like AD 1602 or 1503 don't work anymore.

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