Installing Lutris

General system Newbie
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I was installing lutris in terminal when i was met up with this confirmation prompt . I’m confused what to choose. Can someone help me out ?

$ sudo pacman -S lutris
resolving dependencies…
:: There are 8 providers available for xdg-desktop-portal-impl:
:: Repository extra

  1. xdg-desktop-portal-dde 2) xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 3) xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
  2. xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland 5) xdg-desktop-portal-kde 6) xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt
  3. xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 8) xdg-desktop-portal-xapp

Enter a number (default=1):

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Normally default is fine but what desktop environment are you using, KDE or Gnome or another?

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I’m using xfce

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PIck " xdg-desktop-portal-xapp" then.

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OK thanks for the help . i was having one more doubt while i was scrolling through the forum i was met with a post mentioning xfce desktop environment is bad for gaming in general . Is it true?

Link- Problem running lutris - #25 by Hitman_Agent47

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I don’t know, I haven’t used Xfce in a long time. What you can do is install a secondary desktop environment(such as KDE Plasma or Gnome) and then game in both of them so you can compare for yourself.

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Ok I’ll try that .

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Be sure to try it with different games so that you have good comparison, modern and older games.

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This is actually for Cinnamon. They should have used the gtk one. But, it should be fine in the end.

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I based what I recommended on the description of the package and because it had less dependencies than xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.

A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GTK and various pieces of Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce4 infrastructure

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XFCE is bad with its default compositor. If you use compiz with XFCE, or picom with XFCE, then you will have a fantastic gaming experience.

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