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  • i don’t know how well versed in linux you are so ill try to be thorough:

    overall it seems lutris is just running another instance of bnet than you set up in bottles, and might be running on system wine instead of proton.

    see, these programs each have a “prefix” which is fancy for the folder the emulated windows C: drive is, the games aren’t showing because you are probably running it in another prefix, would be my guess. you can simply try pointing lutris to the bottles prefix, or set up bnet anew in lutris.

    as for the crash, check the lutris config and ensure it’s running on proton-latest or the latest proton-ge (right now it’s v10). you can do that in lutris settings>runners>wine>cog icon. you might be missing runtimes in the lutris prefix.

    temporarily lagging your mouse/pc while games load on wayland is an issue i had in a much older version, which is why i asked you about it. you are probably already running latest if you got the flatpak, though. running it from the terminal with flatpak run net.lutris.Lutris then trying it again might output useful information pertaining to this issue on the terminal.

    more generally, you can use lutris’ log feature (up arrow by the play button > show logs) and see if it tells you more about the error you are experiencing when you run it. this is great for general troubleshooting. also, protondb.com is where people post fixes for the few games that might be stubborn, even if you are not using steam to launch it. known problems usually have known solutions so searching around before stressing about will usually help you a lot.

    it’s hard to make an often straightforward diagnostic from far away, but these are the things i’d try first. let me know if i can help you further and i will try.







  • for me, the main thing about the “expert” distros like arch or gentoo is ease of customization and modularity. i would probably have a better time switching subsystems around until i find something i like on such a distro. gentoo was practical back in the early days of proton, when i needed to compile things with cherrypicked patches and use different versions of stuff to get some games to work.

    and the learning that comes with it too.

    i don’t use arch (or gentoo) rn, btw. just saying it’s valuable too, if that’s what you want from a distro.