Why not use the official app? https://itch.io/app
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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He says that he doesn't like the official software.
I know it's unrelated to the original question, but.. What are the issues with the original software? Am I missing out on something if I keep using it?
Yes, and I ask why he does not like and use it. What's the issue with it? Would be good to know for myself. Plus, if we know whats the issue with the official software, we can make better recommendations.
Adding them to steam as a non-steam game, you can run them with proton as well
I've never used it, but:
https://github.com/Vidi0/scratch-io
Says that it's a Rust-based command-line client, which is probably the sort of thing that I'd use myself, if I were on the hunt for a client, sorta analogous to lgogdownloader for GOG.
Note that it says:
Due to how the itch.io API works, it is not possible to update a game in-place. To update a game, you must remove it and install it again.
Itch has their own launcher that supports Linux. Should be on their download client page.
Lutris's gone slop?
The Dev unapologetically uses LLMs during development. For some, that's some sort of ideological line they refuse to cross.
Myself, I'm gonna keep using it as long as it works. All the games I load into it are pirated anyway.
Everything is a religion now. Apparently people need that. Sad state we are in as a society if we have to pick such battles and fight each other instead of dealing with the real socio economic issues.
Forget LLM code, the developer purposefully removed code crediting to Claude so that users don’t know which code is human and which is LLM generated
Aside from LLM code that’s just shit transparency
We are not talking about chatbots here but about coding agents. Different breeds of tools.
Can AI usage be an issue? Sure, like every tool can be used wrongly and badly. But the tools are there and they won't go away anymore. So we better learn how to use them well than painting the devil on all of them (which would be the religion part).
Im in the AI is a tool camp but right now AI is a tool that still needs massive improvement before it can be reliably used. Thats all a lot of the AI hate comes from. People are using such an underdeveloped tool to work on projects and barely testing them. When a problem happens the best case is a minor glitch or it just breaks the software. Worst case you create latent security vulnerabilities
There's a difference though between using agent generated code as is (vibe coding) and using vetted and refined agent generated code. The author of Lutris seems to understand that important difference. He even highlights that he doesn't trust these tools.
For actually running the games, I've been using Heroic. That doesn't solve the problem of actually downloading them though.