Lutris

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Lutris, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Couldn't get games to run consistently under Lutris2026-01-28
Games launch on the wrong monitor and the instance crashes after repeated switching2025-10-17
Adding Battle.net requires running an unexplained script from a website with no indication of its effects2025-08-11
Game launchers take forever to start up on Linux via Lutris2023-12-07
Installs break repeatedly, and the user must debug missing dependencies by hand2023-07-11
Couldn't figure out how to use it at all when first installed2022-02-01
App is labelled as a games tool, obscuring its use for Windows apps2020-11-13