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[–] 195 points 2 months ago (28 children)

Linux versions of Epic games store and GOG galaxy is still a big win for everyone

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  • [–] 131 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Not just because it enables more access for everyone, but because it represents a deepening commitment by these companies to Linux as a gaming platform.

    The more companies see Linux as a viable gaming platform, the more consumers will. It's a virtuous cycle, and one that will only help to erode Windows grip on the desktop OS space.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's wild that Sweeney would let this happen. He's been pretty vocally anti-linux in the past. Must be a big enough change to make him consider Linux dollars worth chasing.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (20 children)

    Is gog galaxy for Linux got anywhere or still in deep dev?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (19 children)

    Consider considering that it has worked very well on macOS for years, it can’t be that much of a leap to get it working on Linux.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Given that we haven't gotten it yet, despite years of promise, it seemingly has to be. Isn't it just a webapp anyway?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    I think version 1.0 and 1.5 on macOS were a Web app, but IIRC Gog galaxy 2.0 was finally native on macOS, which they made a really, really, really big deal about. Although, it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s just a native app framework with a mostly web-reliant backend.

    Given that we haven't gotten it yet

    I can’t speak to their development priorities, but from what I understand, they don’t exactly have a huge dev team over there. I’ve learned to be patient with them.

    But I get where you’re coming from

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Ah, well if they're aiming to make a native client I can see it taking a bunch of extra time.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    What I mean is that if they wanna make a linux native client that’s not just a web interface in a shell, then, yeah, it’s gonna take a bunch of effort. And their dev team is already stretched between maintaining a windows native and a relatively new macos native client.

    But with most of the work already done and having made a macOS native client, porting that to linux shouldn’t be too much more work. A lot of the extra work there should be in leveraging open source libraries to replace whatever proprietary Apple stuff they were using to make it work on macOS. (kind of guessing here)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Aye, I follow you. I honestly couldn't say yay or nay. Might be as easy as switching some libraries out and making a good GUI in Qt/Adwaita/what have you, like what Kagi is doing with Orion. It could be more involved than that too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    my point is, i suppose, that most of the hard work of making a *NIX-version is done (or, at least half-2/3). macOS is BSD with a bunch of proprietary stuff added on by Apple. strip it down, and it's still BSD and works like BSD/UNIX. so, usually getting something to be cross-compatible isn't that difficult-- at least not so bad as porting something directly from Windows.

    hehe... but it's certainly a lot easier going from linux > macOS than the other way around. that process is usually a seamless matter of downloading a couple of extra dependancies via homebrew.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    Installing and running programs is wildly more complicated on Linux than macOS. On macOS there is only one way to do it: a self contained .app bundle. On Linux there are….several incompatible standards. And if you do it a different way than a specific Linux user’s preference, they will loudly complain and tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Even if it works.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    They’ll probably do it similar to what steam does. Steam has learnt a lot there over the years. It’s definitely a pro if it can be easily repackaged, paths configured and they follow the desktop standards, but it will also work without. People will certainly complain if they have to fix stuff themselves

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

    Installing and running programs is wildly more complicated on Linux than macOS

    noooot really, and you’re already coming in with a full head of steam.

    This is only really true in the strict context of “what can happen in 2026”, and not in the context of if “ what has been historically accomplished up to today, 2026”

    The difference? Pretty much 98% if POSIX apps (including the vast amount of pre-steam gaming, and a lot of current steam games), so don’t let this bitter bitch try to convince you otherwise.

    @ayyy, you can complain all you like about how you don’t understand how macOS works or how it is similar and to LINUX and UNIX, but do it somewhere else that doesn’t waste the rest of our time. The rest of us are trying to come together to solve a problem. It’s clear that your only interest is in driving everyone apart, and that doesn’t solve problems. It just creates them.

    And no one here is interested in that bullshit

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    I’m speaking from personal experience. What you and I want and actual reality are two different things. Your belligerent complaining is exactly what I was talking about, and it took less than half an hour for it to happen.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

    What happened?

    What do you imagine just happened? The fulfillment of some fantasy imagined?

    Lol

    “I can’t work in fast food all my life”

    Edit: let dump the pretense shall we?

    State your position and your argument, and we’ll go from there. And I’m happy to dump the belligerence and the assumed contemptuousness.

    The facts assume no emotion

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

    lmao yep, you’re definitely not being extremely belligerent over nothing just like I was talking about. 👍

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Oh, buddy… Way to drop the ball…

    Not gonna even slap him in the face about Chinese slave factory workers? Children killing themselves?

    Nothing?

    Wow…

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What are you even talking about? What does this have to do with installations on Linux? Or are you just riffing off of their belligerent unhinged replies as a bit?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago*

    The one big deal about GOG galaxy, at least for me, is that it’s been available on macOS for years, and that they’re doing everything they can to make sure that all games currently available and playable on macOS will also continue to be playable and available on macOS even after macOS no longer supports the x64 architecture via Rosetta.

    If they care that much about keeping Mac games playable even on the new arm/Mx line of chips, then I’m sure they’re gonna put a lot of care into making sure that old games are playable on Linux, although I’m not entirely aware of their development timeline.

    I could not really give a shit about what happens with the epic game store.

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    • [–] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    😭 good golden gods the year of the linux desktop is finally upon us.

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    • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It is a big deal. If Epic changes some API and breaks Heroic, it is your problem for using an unsupported third party application. If Epic breaks their official client, their QA manager has a problem.

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    • [–] 22 points 2 months ago

    Just means more and better support for Linux going forward. This is a good thing.

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    [–] 18 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Dont forget Faugus - it has slowly but surely replaced heroic on my devices.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    👍

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Thanks for adding it :-) the icon is somewhat cute too :-)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I moved from Lutris to Heroic, so would you explain why you moved from Heroic to Faugus?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    It's much more lightweight than Heroic, and the UI is much more condensed and clear - game configuration takes place on 2 tabs, with the first one for the basics like the name, paths for executables and prefixes, and selection of Proton version (with the ability to manage Proton versions linked directly from this screen); the second path is for setting Protonfix-IDs, Launch Options and access to WineCfg/WineTricks - you can even create Presets for environment variables to quickly apply. Running another executable in a prefix is available on rightclick of the game entry. The retrieval of gameart is something you rarely have to interact with. EGS / GOG integration in not direct, but both clients work fine since August in Faugus (EGS had heavy issues that were seemingly resolved by newer Proton versions, so they reimplemented support alongside GOG Galaxy support). It's pretty client-agnostic, because the only "steam integration" it has that it allows you to add a game shortcut to steam.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you so much for such an in depth answer!

    For someone who has a crap ton of GOG games, is this more worth using than Heroic for installing them? Does it allow me to use my own made prefix folder like Heroic?

    I’ll give it a look when I get home today since you’ve provided so much info already! :-)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Does it support third party library integration like Heroic does?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Nope - But the clients do work under it. Faugus is pretty client-agnostic; the only store specific thing in the whole launcher is the ability to add steam library shortcuts. Faugus is ideal for you if the DMCA is a target to be violated instead of a law.

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    • [–] 18 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Nice, but Heroic is just way too superior.

    Still want to see it. I hope they implement the proton and don't just show the games which are native Linux, otherwise it'll be terrible.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Why would I use heroic over lutris?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    How do I know bro? Its just a matter of taste and choice. I use Heroic because repacks install is just better and yes I pirate few games but not all. And it has a lot of features and ig other launcher have them too.

    I don't dislike Lutris or any other apps like these. But for me when I tried lutris at the start of my Linux transition 4 years ago, I was confused and didn't know what I was doing not Lutris' fault in any way but I found Heroic more intuitive thats all.

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    • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    This is generally great news, but even better news would be if it had like 12 users after launching.

    Show Tim Shittey that everyone hates him.

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    [–] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Epic Games as in Tim Sweeney's Epic Games?

    What are the package names so I can block them from installing please

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    EGS has some integration with UE so if you're buying marketplace assets it's easy to keep them updated and to add them to projects. Since UE can compile to Linux if you're running Linux, this is a move that makes Linux a more appealing OS for game development.

    Sure, it's all stuff you can do manually. But the sweeter you make the pot the more regular users you attract to your OS.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    What is the benefit of attracting more regular users to an OS?

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    • [+] 12 points 2 months ago* (2 children)
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    • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Make shitty port of shitty software => People don't use shitty port => Shitty promoter blames the platform

    This will only lead to Sweeny saying 'told you so' about Linux is not a gaming platform.

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    [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They want that fortnite steam machine money

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    • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I get that Sweeny doesn't like to gargle Gabe's billionaire balls as much as a lot of the users here, but Epic officially supporting Linux is a good thing.

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    • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Exactly as in the post. I already have Heroic, so who cares

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Let me guess. Their kernel malware is going to come to Linux next?

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    More options is never a bad thing.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If we have things like Heroic on Linux, and if they are just bringing the Epic Game Store only and not the anti cheat, then who cares. Nothing has really changed then, as we were always able to play all non-online games from our Epic libraries anyways.

    Plus you can bet your ass that the new and official EGS app will have SO MANY issues when that is released. It was a mess (still kinda is) even on Windows. So many bugs. I wouldn't be surprised if many Linux users will just continue using the alternatives for the smaller resources it takes up.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I don't even want epic free games. Hate that company and the CEO.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Apparently unreal engine may work better in linux now, tho.

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    [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I think https://usebottles.com/ is a much cooler and secure concept if you can get it working with your application.

    Its definitely more complex, but does a much better job of isolating applications like EG.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Holy shit is that a Homestuck panel? First I've seen of The MSPA Reader outside the comic's sphere.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I thought Tim sweeny + Tencent hated Linux

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    • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    stupid ceo can try this again, next time with fortnite, then we can have a discussion. as it is, steam is the real goat of Linux gaming

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I just hate epic and the CEO, I don't even want their free games...

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