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So I've increasingly been seeing people glaze the hell out of the Faugus launcher (https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher). In large part because Bottles is in the "But it might work for us" stage of a full rewrite and Lutris lost a lot of the core development team in the past year or two.

It is very much a question as to whether Bottles even needs to be meaningfully maintained at this point as it is more a way to streamline prefix management. But Lutris could definitely use some love.

I have been unable to find a good description of what Faugus actually IS. Mostly just people regurgitating/Reacting to the Faugus team's PR videos and some REALLY annoying youtubers who clearly are emulating pewdiepie as it were.

At some point I'll probably just sit around and test it (I have a new laptop to provision after all...). But would love to hear some feedback or see some coverage (and maybe find an influencer I don't actively want to push into traffic in the process...) to sell me on it. Because, near as I can tell, it doesn't seem to support the wide range of user scripts that Lutris has to make most games a double click to install? It really seems closer to a Bottles replacement? Which... if there are enough features then sure but... yeah.

Thanks

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[–] Durandal@lemmy.today 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

LinuxNext has a nice long video about it.

https://youtu.be/poeATq07XbQ

My understanding is that lutris is actually in maintenance mode (still around but not being updated) so this is meant to be a replacement for that... and bottle is a more general purpose tool without the gaming enhancements, hence this is being promoted these days.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 hours ago

Yeah... that may be the video I was mentioning as being very clearly inspired by pewdiepie... That approach where it is clear they are emulating children's shows because they want an audience with the attention span of a goldfish.

But it also isn't even really a good one for showing off what Faugus actually brings to the table? Installing ubi and ea is definitely nice. But he spends more time telling people he pirated games than actually showing off anything Faugus provides on the individual game front. And the reason why Lutris took off so much is that those community scripts actually were REALLY nice for not having to care what settings to use in wine or what TPLs are needed and so forth.

Which gets back to it feeling like more of a replacement for Bottles than Lutris.