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what's the point in having bottles, lutris, faugus, unu gui, and heroic all at the same time? i just use heroic and steam for every game other than minecraft
Depends on the situation, but I've had a game work on bottles where it didn't quite on steam. It's slightly closer to running a full vm than proton alone is, and can help with dependencies in rare cases.
IMO, the best and quickest way to determine what I actually want to use and to learn rapidly is by using everything I can find and then tossing the redundants.
Faugus is just a GUI front end of umu launcher which is only CLI.
I pirate games and also own a lot of old games on disc so I can't only use Heroic/Steam.
You can launch most games through Steam if you "add non steam game to library"