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Anything to make gaming easier, especially non-Steam. I'll list what I know of so far:

Bottles.

Faugus Launcher. UMU-Launcher GUI, which is kinda like Bottles but for proton specifically instead of WINE. It's early dev and lacks functional GameScope for now, but Bottles I noticed really doesn't like me using proton so this was an alternative I found.

This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.

MangoHUD of course.

Heroic Games Launcher.

Lutris.

I have Itch.io's launcher too.

ProtonUp Qt - grab various versions of WINE or proton for all these applications.

Winboat - Trying some experimental fuckery to use Vortex but I've not got that far yet, just got Winboat itself set up so far. edit: It worked surprisingly, modded Skyrim Special Edition, see my other comments here.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Batocera has been pretty great for organizing and playing retro emulators on cheap consumer hardware like a raspberry pi, works with my preferred controllers like leverless for fighting and something like this for everything else

USB video game controller with 3 shoulder buttons per side and 4 back buttons for a b x y so you can keep your thumbs on the sticks

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] Asparagus0098@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Launchers

  • Steam
  • Lutris
  • Heroic Games Launcher
  • Prism Launcher - Minecraft launcher
  • ES-DE - Frontend for various emulators
  • Waydroid - Run Android apps/games

Tools

  • Protontricks
  • ProtonUp-Qt
  • Ludusavi - Backing up saves
  • Limo - Mod manager
[–] ExcaliburtheHero@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Steam's native proton for warframe and steam natively without proton for CS2

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I wrote a vod renamer app that also automatically logs me into SC2 after closing the blizzard app's ad.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

What about non-gaming software? I do some video editing for work occasionally and am often handed projects started in Premiere. They want it back in Premiere, so I can’t switch my main desktop over because of this.

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