For Steam, there’s no much of a question; they have a native app that get the job done.
For Epic and Gog, Legendary makes a good launcher in general.
For Amazon games, I use the “nile” launcher.
As for EA, I’ve managed to install the EA App manually to a fresh 64-bit prefix; I just made sure that I run “winetricks d3dcompiler_47” in that prefix, and that DXVK is installed.
I guess it depends on where your games are. I have a few games on epic and gog, and for that Heroic works great. So personally, I just use that and steam. The nice thing about heroic is that it lets me select steam’s installed proton versions, so I don’t have to install proton multiple times.
At the end of the day though, if you can launch the games you want to play, stick with what you got.
Like you, I only use Steam and Lutris. I use Steam for basically everything, even some non-steam games like Gears of War 1, and then I use Lutris for other games like BattleNet games and some Ubisoft games like Assassins Creed Valhalla.
I use Steam for probably 80% of the games that I play regularly, PrismLauncher for Minecraft (modded and vanilla java), Heroic for gog and Epic, Lutris for BattleNet (as well as the original non-“Resurrected” Diablo 2), Amazon Games App (free twitch/prime gaming games), EA App (got a few free games through EA Origin several years back), Ubisoft Connect, and the launcher version of Minecraft Dungeons. I’ve always found the lutris interface a little clunky and unintuitive, but games and things will usually work okay if I can get them installed (which will often take me a few failed attempts before I work it out).
and finally the official itch.io app is really very good, lets you choose native linux versions of games that have 'em, as well as rather seamlessly making wine prefixes for windows versions of games.
I did also used to use EmulationStation Desktop Edition as a front-end for a few different emulators, but it seems I didn’t reinstall it when I did my latest OS reinstall a few months ago, I guess I’ve just been playing a lot more newer games (or just running retroarch without es-de).
Steam, Lutris for league of legends and GOG’s games and even Heroic Launcher for GOG’s games with cloud sync for save data of games or Epic.
Everyone works very well on Arch.
Steam for most games. GDLauncher or ATLauncher for Minecraft (I have both installed, mostly use GDLauncher though), and my emulators are installed separately and I just launch them from my dock.
Only Steam. You can get non-steam Windows games running using Proton too. I had trouble getting Ubisoft (AC Valhalla in particular) working with Lutris and Wine, but it was super easy with Steam using the “add non-steam game” option and trying different Proton versions till one worked (might’ve had to use a GloriousEggroll version, don’t remember).
I like to use steam and heroic for all the games i bought that have drm. Bottles is my nextstop for all the non legit content,since its all sandboxed i can feel safe running content from source that arent safe.
I use Steam and Lutris (but mostly Steam). Want to get Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Escape from Tarkov to work, but can’t make them to open 😕 Will try out Diablo IV some day. Have only heard good things about it so far.
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For Steam, there’s no much of a question; they have a native app that get the job done.
For Epic and Gog, Legendary makes a good launcher in general.
For Amazon games, I use the “nile” launcher.
As for EA, I’ve managed to install the EA App manually to a fresh 64-bit prefix; I just made sure that I run “winetricks d3dcompiler_47” in that prefix, and that DXVK is installed.
I guess it depends on where your games are. I have a few games on epic and gog, and for that Heroic works great. So personally, I just use that and steam. The nice thing about heroic is that it lets me select steam’s installed proton versions, so I don’t have to install proton multiple times.
At the end of the day though, if you can launch the games you want to play, stick with what you got.
Like you, I only use Steam and Lutris. I use Steam for basically everything, even some non-steam games like Gears of War 1, and then I use Lutris for other games like BattleNet games and some Ubisoft games like Assassins Creed Valhalla.
I use Steam for probably 80% of the games that I play regularly,
PrismLauncher for Minecraft (modded and vanilla java),
Heroic for gog and Epic,
Lutris for BattleNet (as well as the original non-“Resurrected” Diablo 2), Amazon Games App (free twitch/prime gaming games), EA App (got a few free games through EA Origin several years back), Ubisoft Connect, and the launcher version of Minecraft Dungeons. I’ve always found the lutris interface a little clunky and unintuitive, but games and things will usually work okay if I can get them installed (which will often take me a few failed attempts before I work it out).
and finally the official itch.io app is really very good, lets you choose native linux versions of games that have 'em, as well as rather seamlessly making wine prefixes for windows versions of games.
I did also used to use EmulationStation Desktop Edition as a front-end for a few different emulators, but it seems I didn’t reinstall it when I did my latest OS reinstall a few months ago, I guess I’ve just been playing a lot more newer games (or just running retroarch without es-de).
I use lutris and steam. I usually make steam shortcuts in lutris so i can have custom controller layouts
Steam, Lutris for league of legends and GOG’s games and even Heroic Launcher for GOG’s games with cloud sync for save data of games or Epic. Everyone works very well on Arch.
I use steam, and if something I want to play isn’t there, I throw it in a bottle.
Steam for most games. GDLauncher or ATLauncher for Minecraft (I have both installed, mostly use GDLauncher though), and my emulators are installed separately and I just launch them from my dock.
Steam and sometimes bottles. But since you can add non steam apps its basically only steam when it comes to gaming.
Only Steam. You can get non-steam Windows games running using Proton too. I had trouble getting Ubisoft (AC Valhalla in particular) working with Lutris and Wine, but it was super easy with Steam using the “add non-steam game” option and trying different Proton versions till one worked (might’ve had to use a GloriousEggroll version, don’t remember).
I like to use steam and heroic for all the games i bought that have drm. Bottles is my nextstop for all the non legit content,since its all sandboxed i can feel safe running content from source that arent safe.
Literally just steam and lutris, everything else tends to crap out on me.
mainly just using steam, and if i need to i use lutris. tried bottles a few times but its kinda buggy for me
I use Steam and Lutris (but mostly Steam). Want to get Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Escape from Tarkov to work, but can’t make them to open 😕 Will try out Diablo IV some day. Have only heard good things about it so far.
Steam and lutris. Lately only steam, as I’m using steam deck as my desktop and it’s just so much easier when everything is in one place.
But lutris for wow classic and gw2 worked very well. Also on my previous laptop.
I guess I’m just not gaming that much anymore to need anything specific.