Lutris is a gaming client for Linux. It gives you access to all your video games with the exception of the current console generation. You can, in a single interface, run any game from your childhood memories to the current multiplayer games. Integrations with stores like GOG and Steam allow you to import your existing game library and community maintained install scripts give you a completely automated setup.
Lutris uses what we refer as runners. Runners are programs that the client can control and launch. Our most popular runners include RetroArch, DosBox, FS-UAE, ScummVM, MESS, Dolphin and of course Wine TkG, a build of Wine optimized to give you the best performance out of your system. It is also possible to launch Linux native games, we have a large selection of free and Open Source games ready to install from the client. Download the client and start playing in minutes!
Video games are now part of our history and our culture. If we want to keep a trace of the actual games and not just videos or articles about them, we need have a way to play them in a way that would closely match how the game was meant to be experienced. We also need to make sure that the games we have today still work tomorrow. This is why the choice of Linux as a gaming environment is so important. In a closed ecosystem, our legacy is at the mercy of software vendors able to kill features required to run some games. While we cannot support each and every recent AAA release, mostly due to DRM and anti-cheat incompatibilities, Lutris does support a vast majority of every game ever released in history, on a wide variety of hardware systems.
GNU software is software that is released under the auspices of the GNU Project. If a program is GNU software, we also say that it is a GNU program or a GNU package. The README or manual of a GNU package should say it is one; also, the Free Software Directory identifies all GNU packages.
Most GNU software is copylefted, but not all; however, all GNU software must be free software.
Some GNU software was written by staff of the Free Software Foundation, but most GNU software comes from many volunteers. (Some of these volunteers are paid by companies or universities, but they are volunteers for us.) Some contributed software is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation; some is copyrighted by the contributors who wrote it.
| KDEGames is a division of the K Desktop Environment project. The main focus of our team is to provide desktop users with high quality gaming and entertainment software. We realize that games are first and foremost about fun and our greatest ambition is to create only the most enjoyable and amusing playware. To date KDEGames has accumulated an impressive selection of quality games in nearly all genres. Each of these small masterpieces have been carefully tailored to satisfy the demands of all, even the most pretentious gamers. |
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Well, if you are interested, see for yourself. Huge respect for this guy
Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
Wine began in 1993 under the initial coordination of Bob Amstadt as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Very early on, leadership over Wine's development passed to Alexandre Julliard, who has managed the project ever since. Over the years, as the Windows API and applications have evolved to take advantage of new hardware and software, Wine has adapted to support new features, all while being ported to other OSes, becoming more stable, and providing a better user-experience.
An ambitious project by definition, work on Wine would steadily continue for 15 years before the program finally reached v1.0, the first stable release, in 2008. Several releases later, Wine is still under active development today, and although there is more work to be done, millions of people are estimated to use Wine to run their Windows software on the OS of their choice.
Wine will always be free software. Approximately half of Wine's source code is written by volunteers, with the remaining effort sponsored by commercial interests, especially CodeWeavers, which sells a supported version of Wine.
Wine is heavily reliant on its user community too. Users volunteer their time to share tips and test results on how well their programs work in our Application Database, file bug reports to notify developers of problems in our Bug-Tracker, and answer questions in our forums.
(Several of the following pages are currently being reworked and may not be up-to-date)
