Heroic launcher vs lutris

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

So i installed both programs from the discovery tab and i can use my gog account with both of them. Which one would you recommend to use? On the lutris launcher i can’t change the language at least i can’t find anything

[Large Tomatoes]

Originally posted by @R+5:

Reasonable people have learned to not trust the sketchy guy selling "digital snake oil". consider quality and efficiency first.

i guess some people maybe are attracted to heroic because they like the ui, or that it seems "more simple", which they erroneously assume means "easier to use", which actually never translates into "usefulness".

imo avoid heroic until they are able to offer something better than lutris.

"Snake oil" - That is some industrial strength cope right there, high-octane turbo cope.

To everybody else who isn't looking for their own choices to be validated by the internet people. Both are good choices, Heroic is easier to get working, offers a vastly superior user experience, and works for pretty much every game I've played through it (over 500 games on GOG).

However, as others have said there are some games which require extra steps, these extra steps aren't a one-click process in Heroic. What others haven't mentioned is that these steps are perfectly possible when done manually. An example I found recently is Deus Ex: Invisible War. That game just didn't work for me, it needs a few patches adding to get it running properly. In Heroic the patches aren't applied, instead you need to manually apply them (I used the PC Gaming Wiki as a reference for what needs applying).

In Lutris there is a community built install script which automatically pulls those mods and patches down for you during the installation. The cost of this is a clunky UI, stereotypical of software built by developers who had absolutely no UX or professional QA input. Lutris works and is perfectly functional but it is very much a "built in the shed" piece of software.

I stuck with Heroic for the most part until fairly recently, I now use heroic on the deck because f*** messing with scrapyard Lutris on the Deck, and I use Lutris on the desktop because I can work around the tin-pot Ui to get at the additional options.

This isn't a matter of snake-oil, or fancy Ui over functionality, this is a matter of a modern UI with user experience at its heart vs a hackers piece of software. If you're asking "which is better, heroic or Lutris" use Heroic until you find a reason not to, which you may never do.