Can a motherfucker get a break, PLEASE.
I use Lutris for games that don't work in Steam/Proton, usually an older game like Black and White 2 or the old Sims 2 game (before the updated version came out). Why is everything I like turning to shit! :(
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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I used lutris for a while but jumped ship to bottles as soon as it existed as I found the UI more tolerable even though it has that gnome app look I don't really like. Then I switched to heroic which can also handle semi manual wine prefixes with whatever wine or proton variant I want or need, without all the extraneous handholding or terminology renaming.
Some comtributors to vim started using AI too btw. I may learn kate. Hell there is an evil mode in emacs.
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Can it even still call itself open source when it is entirely unclear where the AI they used took the code from, and under what license it was published?
What even does using AI regurgitated code do to the license of a software product? Because basically what they are doing is exactly the same as going through shit tons of comments on stackoverflow and copying them verbatim into the code base. Without attribution or regard to licensing.
What shit.
I agree with "it's facebook's fault for laying off" etc.
But I also believe they alone wouldn't use it responsibly. Eliza effect would cloud their judgement and cause problems at some point, no?
Hell it already makes them not recognize the moral problems with funding data warehouses.
You know what's great about open source software?
You can fork it and turn it into your own project. With black jack and hookers.
Someone can, I certainly don't have the time or the talent to do so. Thanks for your efforts people who do this stuff.
That's funny, not long ago people were giving me shit for saying Lutris is a confusing, unintuitive mess.
Well I guess now we know why.
No, it was a confusing intuitive mess with tons of broken toggles for legacy cruft long, long before AI code was a thing.
True, but if AI is doing much of the coding, that means the devs have been out to lunch for a while, aka, not actually trying to do the much needed overhaul to the frontend UX.
I never liked it. Heroic is best.
Heroic is also doing some sloppy things, though.
Oof. Got any alternatives for accessing GOG and Epic (mainly free offerings and Genshin Impact) on Linux?
Heroic is great for newer stuff but I still have Lutris because some older games work there out of the nox just fine while they don't even launch in Heroic.
Heroic is best for PC games from GOG, and Epic and Amazon I suppose. Got quite a stock of free games from Epic that I've never bothered to start up.
Lutris did fill a hole for 'emulation', all your console games, dosbox &c all in one place. Heroic doesn't really do that. Looks like it's time to find another tool that will...
I have not used Heroic much at all, but from what I have used it for... yeah, much more intuitive user interface for the vast majority of the most common use cases.
Who cares. As long as the code is well tested it does not matter. The only mistakes they made is claiming Anthropic does not work for the US army because it does.
Thanks for raising awareness! Fuck this :(
I could never get lutris to even install its flagship games with explicit "support“ and had better luck following online documentation or wine directly.
So I guess I'm saying, that makes sense. No big loss other than it would be nice I'd there was the tool lutris purported to be to help new Linux converts that had the ideals and quality the Linux community strives for.
The lutris installers repo is community maintained, which means that someone made an installer for a game they wanted to play 6 years ago that worked on their system, but never tested to make sure it would work with others.
They often include workarounds that were needed at the time, but are very obsolete, and no one is willing to take the effort to update them, and the dev did not provide an easy way to report broken installers fr review/removal.
I appreciate the response but in this case it was several games and apps that where very active. One of the being WoW.
Also, lutris itself would often break its own wine install and i'd have to go to the cli and fix it. Hense just using wine directly.
The snipe from the dev about removing the co-authorship is particularly shitty.
Devs of open source software need the thick skin to be able to say "This is how I'm going to handle things as long as I'm the lead, you don't have to like it." but this goes beyond it into an active "fuck you" to their users.
Edit: the second link has less charged discussion, but it's still getting wrapped up in "anthropic bad" stuff that's not actually related to code quality.
If the project is not the space for non-code quality concerns like Anthropic's business dealings, then it is also not the place for one of the devs to try their personal social project of "seeing if contributors can differentiate between AI assisted commits and not". Listing claude as a co-author where it was used serves a practical purpose of drawing extra eyes for review of relevant commits.
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Otter slop?
Damn, I really liked having the same app for my games & same type of settings UI for all (eg switch monitors off & TV on for this game etc).
I don't wanna support AI tho.
I don't get it, why would you take a program (or ANYTHING) you created and let some AI shit all over it. I will never.
Am I allowed to have an unpopular narrative here?
There are levels of vibe coding, and it's possible to use AI without vibe coding at all.
If you're very targeted in what you're having the AI do and you carefully review the code, it can be a great tool.
For example, "make this html grid sortable and add a download button that creates a csv file." You know exactly what this does, it's self contained, and it's something you know can just be copied from stack overflow and applied to your code.
That works, and works well.
"Create an app that..." is vibe coded slop.
For example, “make this html grid sortable and add a download button that creates a csv file.” You know exactly what this does, it’s self contained, and it’s something you know can just be copied from stack overflow and applied to your code.
Even if this works, you'll be stealing someone else's code without authorship attribution for anything that's a non-trivial algorithm.
It can be useful when an experienced programmer knows how to guide it, although you have to be very intentional or you'll end up wasting your time cleaning up after it.
That being said I think most people are upset that they're no longer declaring which parts of code are AI assisted
I'm going to assume from the part where they say they were at their lowest that the option the saw infront of them wasn't "code with AI or not" but rather "burnout and don't code, or code with AI". And they chose to make progress using the crutch rather than stop. That's my guess.
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