Lutris VS MESS

Lutris

Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux.

MESS

Emulates most gaming systems that exist, emphasizing accuracy over speed.

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2022-01-18

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2018-11-05

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Category Popularity

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MESS

Gaming

83 83%

Gaming

17% 17

Linux

100 100%

Linux

0% 0

Emulators

0 0%

Emulators

100% 100

Game Managers

100 100%

Game Managers

0% 0

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Lutris is a free, open-source game manager that only works on Linux. You can install and run games without any complicated setup. Expert gamers and programmers made the solution; it has almost everything you could want to improve your gaming.

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Lutris seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 524 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Lutris mentions (524)

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You can get Lutris: It's an open source launcher that you login into with GOG account and it will download the games and wrap them with Wine, similar to Steam. https://lutris.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Making the switch - what are the gaps?
For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you... Source: 5 months ago
WoW Season of Discovery freezes on every honorable kill!
Can I suggest you head over to the lutris.net site and follow the link the lutris discord - with what you are describing, it would take me 20 minutes to get the base battle.net working so you can see what is causing your issue or 3 days back and forwards here. As a hint, your wine version has known issues, and unless you manually installed the lutris 0.5.14 from the git page in Mint, or are running flatpak, you... Source: 5 months ago
Windows 11 is last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros
As a data point, you can run a fair number of Windows games under Proton by using Lutris instead of Steam: * https://lutris.net * https://github.com/lutris/lutris It's an OSS game launcher that takes the place of Steam, and you can set things up to run locally so you don't even need an account on their system (lutris.net). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Been thinking of switching to linux but I am a noob
My advice would be to go to Protondb first and look at your Steam games and how it would fit. They are graded at Gold/Platinum/Silver in terms of compatibility. Alternatively you can try Lutris if your game is not in Steam. I think there are a few others but I can't recall any. Source: 5 months ago