Linux Gaming beyond Steam: Building native support for GOG, Epic, and more
Linux Gaming beyond Steam: Building native support for GOG, Epic, and more
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The Heroic Launcher is already quite good.
Looking forward to Bottles Next
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Heroic
Yup, my only complaint is that Steam Deck controller doesn't seem to work automatically with Heroic games launched through desktop mode, and most guides I see recommend running games through Steam.
If Heroic had smooth integration with the Steam Deck, I'd use it a lot more.
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my only complaint is that Steam Deck controller doesn't seem to work automatically with Heroic games launched through desktop mode
If you hold start for 1 second in desktop mode you can switch between Desktop and Gamepad profile (which should just emulate a regular gamepad), assuming you don't mean that.
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There are just too many of these goddamn launchers.
That gave me a good laugh.
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Looks like TL;DW - rewrite Heroic in Rust, and rearchitect it a bit to more easily support other stores than GOG and EGS. There's also an intro to other options.
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I was wondering why they wanted to rewrite it then I realised they are using electron...ouch!
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Eh, I think something like Electron makes a lot of sense, but maybe they'll go with tauri instead if it's going to be written in Rust. The app itself isn't really performance sensitive since it basically just launches games in another process, so using a web view isn't really an issue, and could even be helpful in order to handle 2FA and whatnot.
So I wouldn't expect them to rewrite with GTK+ or Qt or something, but who knows!
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GOG I can get behind. Fuck Epic however. They deliberately deprecated rocket league's linux version along with stealing it from Steam.
And then there's Epic's spyware, their ass of a CEO, their relationship to Tencent, and probably a few things I'm forgetting at the moment.
Fuck Epic indeed.
Honestly having Heroic and co. is like doing their work for them. At least Steam and GOG are supportive of Linux (much less so in the case of GOG but still), not the case with Tim "Linux=Moving to Canada" Sweeney's Epic "We pretend saving the PC gaming ecosystem by bringing in exclusives and other shit" Games
@JaxiiRuff @mrMADAFAKA Competition is good, but GOG is the only one I've really seen anyone say they prefer over Steam. For various reasons, the Epic store seems to mainly be used begrudgingly for games only sold there, or to take advantage of free games they give away.