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Haven't even heard of Faugus until this post, so I won't be able to sell you on it.
I used Lutris for quite a while but had to drop it because there's some really bad network coding in there that causes it to essentially DDoS my DNS server if it can't give what it expects. For example, when I had installed Dead Space Remake, it was looking for OG assets, which has been moved to a new location, and Remake took that original location. It was sending well over 1000 DNS requests a second for several seconds before my DNS server would 10 min blacklist my PC. If took me 2 weeks to figure out exactly what was happening because I wasn't noticing it was Lutris specifically and was thinking my NIC drivers were killing my connection.
I moved to Heroic and tbh, I don't see anything in Faugus that Heroic isn't already doing. I have GOG, Epic, and Amazon games in there, cloud saves with GOG, achievements with GOG (but no pop-ups), and they've been using umu for a long time. Also automatically adds my games to Steam with assets. They also have a Wine manager and will actively check for game updates.
Does anyone know what Faugus does better? I'm interested, but like OP, I'd have to be sold on it too.
Yeah. Fiddled with Heroic a bit to see if it could do generic installs. Not gonna lie... it took me WAY too long to realize "App Image" meant "icon" not "Appimage". Shout out to A1RM4X for having a video that actually demonstrated how to use that. Will set up Guild Wars 2 on my laptop with that and see if I notice any meaningful difference from Lutris
I would still prefer something that is built around scripted installs since a lot of games not in the major stores tend to be... kind of a cluster to get working. And it's always struck me as kind of stupid to find the same gist everyone else used when that gist could just be a script the Launcher pulls. Although your experience very much highlights the dangers of that...
Yeah definitely fair enough. Lol thanks for the laugh about the icon though, sounds like something I'd do too.
I do think that Heroic is the perfect level of automatic vs manual for me. The only confusing bit for me is that if you specify an alternative executable, there's no way of launching anything else except that executable until you delete it out, even if you use the launch drop-down to pick something else. Every once in a while I have to juggle those because of a config utility or something, or even a mod installer that I want to run in the same prefix. It's little quirks that are annoying, but once I get things setup it's all moot anyhow.