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Is it worth using over Heroic? Is there a use case where this works and Heroic doesn't?
I don't think so, no. It seems like it's just a simpler installer that focuses on one service, instead of several.
Assuming it works as advertised, I would use this one, in part because it's not a bloated Electron app like Heroic. (This one is written in Python, and presumably not so wasteful of system resources.)
I really like Heroic because I don't want a separate app for each store. It's already annoying enough steam is a separate app.
I understand that, a playnite style launcher to get all your game in one place would be awesome
Cartridges does this
Yes, I've searched and found nothing like Playnite.
I am still hoping for the cross platform feature that may be for the roadmap after the next big release
Check out Cartridges. It's simpler than Playnite, but works great for just seeing all your games in one place.
I just checked it, though what I liked with playnite is also check if I already own a game from another platform before buying it. Though good recommendation.
I haven’t been keeping up with the Linux gaming launchers space .. do I understand that Lutris has been surpassed?
I think everyone has their favorite. I've been using Heroic for anything not-Steam.
Mmm they don't mention achievement support...
Heroic has some basic support with Comet, but I haven't tried it yet.
Looks good, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a compelling reason to use this over Heroic, if you already have that installed.
I mean, Heroic straight up doesn't work for me and I have no idea why. I've resorted to launching GOG through Steam and then installing and launching games through that. But it's mega cursed so I might give this a go.
Oof, that is bad.
You could also try Bottles.
I've never tried Bottles before. Does it differ meaningfully from winetricks/protontricks? That's what I normally use to manage wine prefixes. Never managed to get GOG working with winetricks tho.
It's got it's own dependency manager, and GOG is one of the pre-configured applications in the Gaming section, so it makes sure that everything needed to run GOG is there. I've never used winetricks/protontricks on their own, but I think the main difference is the sandboxed nature, the devs recommend installing Bottles as a flatpak, and then it makes it's own prefixes within that environment. They also recommend making new bottles for each application, so like if you also wanted EGS or the EA store, you'd make new bottles for each of those rather than keeping them all under one "gaming" profile, for example. Here's docs if you're a reader like me: