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
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.