Top 7 Shell linux-gaming Projects

steamtinkerlaunch

85 1,485 9.6 Shell

Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs

Project mention: Hello, I've had my steam deck for a month and I've been loving it but there is one thing I have been having trouble with. I've been trying to mod the game pizza tower but nothing I've tried has worked, I think it has something to do with the chain icon on the steam icon. Any help would be great | reddit.com/r/SteamDeck | 2023-05-14

I haven't done this myself mind you but this is usually how you mod stuff on Steam Deck. Through an application called ProtonUp-QT, download something called SteamTinkerLaunch.
Conty

20 330 6.4 Shell

Easy to use unprivileged Linux container packed into a single portable executable

Project mention: The first tip to give to any new Linux user should be "do NOT search for, download, and install software on the Web!" | reddit.com/r/linux | 2023-05-22

Have you tried Conty? The best way I could describe it is the combination of distrobox and AppImage. You basically build a single binary (or use the pre-built one the dev made) containing a minimal Arch install and any other packages you listed in the create-arch-bootstrap.sh file.
InfluxDB

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gameready

11 206 7.6 Shell

🎮 GameReady - Automated script to make Linux distros ready for gaming with WINE, Lutris, GameMode, Winetricks and more!

Project mention: Which OS for gaming pc build? | reddit.com/r/SteamOS | 2022-10-05

SteamOS isn't out yet so I game on ZorinOS and I also do my work on it as well. I created GameReady (https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/GameReady) that lets you set up a Linux distro like Zorin for gaming automatically.
wine-lol

7 155 0.0 Shell

PKGBUILDs to package GloriousEggroll's LoL-patched wine version

Project mention: Update of leagueoflegends-git script and the AUR package for transitioning to 64-bit wine | reddit.com/r/leagueoflinux | 2023-04-05

Things may not be as easy on Ubuntu since there doesn't seem to be a packaged wine-lol that's ready to install. If one's going to install wine-lol manually, they'd need to understand and follow the commands of either the wine-lol pkgbuild or the wine-lol-bin pkgbuild, at which point I'd argue getting an Arch-based user-friendly distro might be easier for non-tech-savvy users. Unfortunately I don't have an Ubuntu machine to work on that or test it myself.
proton-ge-custom-updater

1 103 0.0 Shell

Simple updater for custom Proton distributions.

Project mention: ProtonUp (Python) was having dependency problems, so I decided to re-write it in Rust | reddit.com/r/linux_gaming | 2023-02-08

There's a lot of solutions to the proton update problem, and all seem good! Here is yet another proton updater, but in POSIX-compliant shell Proton GE Custom Updater
golden-drake-linux

0 25 0.0 Shell

Arch Linux installer for gamers and game developers
ultra-gaming-setup-wizard

0 17 5.8 Shell

Gaming on Linux setup works on Arch Linux , Artix , Ubuntu or Pop!_OS and Fedora
SonarLint

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-05-22.