Genuinely, what do you like about it? I found it scaled weirdly and it has its own theme instead of the system theme as well as just striking me as a bloated pos I don't want to have to use just to play video games.
A good portion of all my games are on Steam. I've had a Steam account since Half Life 2 was released on it. Steam was really fucking shit in 2004.
So my Steam account is probably older than many of the people in this thread.
Since then they've improved the application loads.
- The interface is pretty straightforward IMO and reasonably well organised.
- Games are easy to buy on the shopfront; I can check out quickly on Steam, and they will install without any hassle.
- Returns are easy to do. I've returned several games after I bought them, and after about 20 minutes to 1 hour, I had my money refunded.
- Updates are easy. Games that I have installed update in the background.
- I have a Steam Link (bought it on sale) and can stream games from my PC to my living room, and it works perfectly even at UHD resolutions.
- Steam Link can also be used to stream your desktop to your TV. Which means I can use my PC to stream a movie/YouTube to my TV.
- The "Big Picture" mode makes it basically work like a console, while it can also use a mouse and keyboard plugged into the Steam Link.
- Switching between different versions of Proton is really easy.
- Installing different versions of Proton is really easy; you just drop the tarball in the directory and restart Steam.
- Scaling has been fixed for a while, and before that you could force 1.5 scaling on UHD screens (I did).
As for it being bloated. I just checked the RAM usage on my system. It is using about 400MB of memory.
This website is currently using 350 MB in this tab, according to Brave.
Lutris and bottles can have a very minimal look, follow your theming and don't require me to log into shit.
The majority of the Linux desktop is quite frankly a mess visually. You have several toolkits and different versions of the same toolkit that all look quite different, and theming is generally inconsistent anyway across apps. Spacing between elements is all over the place and inconsistent. So something not following the theme, is a "whatever" as far as I am concerned.
Also, the reason it doesn't follow your theme is twofold. The first is branding, and the second is that, like Slack/Discord and a bunch of other Electron apps, the only way to make a cross-platform UI that works well and isn't a maintenance nightmare is to basically wrap a web app.
Lutris works fine if you are using GOG. I had problems using it when trying to play games outside of GOG.
If you want Lutris to log into any of the stores, you do need to "login to shit" still.
As for it being minimal. Lutris has the normal 60 different menu items for the game properties and different profiles. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but the UI, IMO (and this is true of many open-source applications), is clearly in need of a UX/UI specialist.
Don't know about bottles; not used them. The website looks like it's been built by someone that ripped off the Apple website, which automatically makes me suspicious of it.
