I have some GOG games, but they are for Windows. Will Lutris allow me to play these games?
As you can see, I’m not a windooze expert in Linux.
I shall look into it. Though I’m more curious about using Wine directly, with custom proton builds, etc… The low level stuff 
Yes you can easily run them with Wine (Lutris is just a good configuration / launcher tool)
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Yup, that works also. The only issue I had with running pure wine with games is that with every update to wine, it would break something and stop the game from running. 
BUT, it is a good way to see what is really going on and how to fix it. 
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Easy to avoid though, when creating separate prefixes using non-system wine engines, again will be in my guide soon 
Not the most obvious thing in the world, but it’s kinda like what PlayOnLinux does, just with pure Wine
Install Lutris and use their search, or go to their website, for the games you want to install. The results will show if they have “runners” (install scripts that run in the background of install) for your games. Start there.
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Like I said above, I hate Steam, it’s spyware. I could elaborate on that, but suspect nobody is interested in my rants about Steam. Let’s just say that I will never make a Steam account, even if that meant never playing another game. I’ll sooner program my own 
y games in the terminal than install them through Steam.
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As you know @kresimir we value all opinions here on EndeavourOS even when we don’t always agree with them 
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GOG also has Galaxy but at least I have the option of not installing it.
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GOG is great, I like GOG. It’s the only* “digital” game store I ever spent any money in. I prefer physical copies, but that’s the thing of the past now… 
* apart from buying a copy of Minecraft, when it was still made by Notch.
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sorry 
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Right now I am playing Rage 2 on my Windows machine and X3: Reunion on my laptop that runs Linux. I am slowly making the transition from Windows gaming to Linux.
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I know rage runs on linux fine…is there an issue with rage 2 I can look into for you?
…sounds like time-consuming work with different wine-versions, directX etc…
In the past (about 5 years ago) I tried to get some games running on my Linux partition (Diablo 2, Bioshock, Mass Effect), but with the only help of WineHQ it was very hard. 
I don’t really play games. The exceptions are: The Witcher 2, which I launch to check if my discrete graphics works well, and 2 games I wrote for Linux and Android. I won’t mention the first one, as it may not install at the moment, due to JRE dependencies. The second is “One more cheese” (AUR, Google Play). It doesn’t make much sense, but coding games is funny.
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Not at all, i’ll show soon it’s just a little bit of hidden knowledge.
Also note that 5 years ago gaming on Linux was crap, now it’s radically changed because of DXVK and Proton contributions
And yeah…WineHQ and Wine in general is not user-friendly at all, it’s extremely hard to find quality information 
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Seems like an excellent niche to fill with your writings on the subject! 
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@BONK No worries. It is a case that the laptop is not powerful enough to run Rage 2. As for my desktop, I still do support for some people running Winders. I like having the OS up when I am talking to them on the phone. Thank you for the offer though.
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As long as you get your partitions straight it should be fine. I’ve never had an Issue with Grub, well I take that back, I did with my first Manjaro install(I didn’t know what I was doing), but I just configured the BIOS Boot Menu to load up on Boot, essentially replacing the GRUB menu. When I installed Manjaro the second time, I meticulously mapped out my partitions for Dual Boot, root, home, EFI, MBR, Windows Backup, TimeShift, and GRUB was great. Then I deleted all of the Manjaro partitions and created new ones for Endeavor and I haven’t had a problem.
The first time I installed Manjaro, I didn’t have a full grasp on what I was doing, and I still don’t to be honest. I just take my time, write everything on paper (weird and I’m 37 years old), and it’s good.
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