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The Steam Deck has finally been surpassed — by a fork of Valve’s own experience - Bazzite turns the Asus ROG Ally X into today’s best handheld while putting Windows to shame. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

There's nothing stopping epic or GOG from distributing a flatpak for their experiences/stores, the question is where are they?

[–] that_leaflet 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Heroic Games Launcher and Lutris both have Epic and GOG integration.

While I would love to have an official GOG Launcher on Linux, it would probably not work as well as Heroic’s integration.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I'm aware, I just like to gently remind people that the stores they want to shop from, seemingly don't want their money. I view the deck as a kind of linux trojan horse for gaming, SteamOS on more devices could at least convince GOG that linux is worth supporting.

Epic has an axe to grind and I expect nothing from them.

[–] kadup 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A free game on Epic is too expensive as far as I'm concerned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Why? I claim them all the time on my phone, and occasionally play them through Heroic. I've never installed EGS on any of my devices, but I've played a few through Steam's integration.

A free game is a free game, but I'll never buy from EGS while they're so hostile to my preferred platform: Linux. I'll occasionally buy from GOG, but honestly, their DRM-free schtick isn't nearly as valuable to me as Valve's investment in Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

So, they ignore Canada and refuse to support the people there. Greaaat.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Neither of the companies want to support Linux. Simple as that. Or else their launchers would work on Linux without needing third party ones. They don't see Linux user base as big enough to be worth the effort.