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But is it any less awful?
I was curious and installed it and a small game. It uses Proton GE. But for the life of me I cannot find where it stores the actual game. Supposedly it should write to ~/Games but it's not in there. Searching for the executable doesn't yield anything either. But it still works.
Edit: No idea what witchcraft this is. When the game is running ps shows that Proton is running an executable located in ~/Games but nothing is there.
Edit 2: The sloppers didn't give the flatpak permission to write to the Games folder. Interesting that the game still didn't show up anywhere. Guess flatpak stored the files in memory.
Wait what? So it ran the game from RAM?
I think. I don't have any other explanation. It couldn't launch the game after restarting the app. Must be a Flatpak thing. After I gave it permission to write to the correct folder it stored the game files there.
The game was only 300 MB so it is plausible to store it in RAM. I could test it out with a larger game but I can't be bothered atm.
See I always liked to play the where did I put that game in lutris. Where I would install the game, use the launch button during install and then 6 weeks later go to play again and it won't launch because I never mapped the gamestart.exe file, and for some odd reason many of them aren't in the install location.
I still don't know why it makes 2 folders, I looked it up awhile back and it said something like "because that's how it do" and I was like, k.
Does the game exist anywhere in the flatpak folder of the app?
What would this offer over Heroic?
Storefront. I don't believe heroic let's you buy games (read: get the week's free game)
It actually does. And they get a commission for GOG games you buy through Heroic.
I stand corrected. Was that a recent addition? It's been a year since I used heroic and don't remember it being a thing
I think it's been there for a while. But it just drowns in all the other icons on the sidebar. And every time I buy a game on GOG I remember a few days later that I should have bought it through Heroic. I don't think I have ever actually used it to buy anything.
Coincidentally I can't install Epic games through Heroic at the moment. Total coincidence, I am sure.
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