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.
Why would I use heroic over lutris?
The only reason I even have EGS installed is for the occasional free game they offer. But also Kingdom Hearts. I bought the trilogy on PC long before a Steam release was even announced, and I thought that if Tim Sweeney managed to convince Disney and Square-Enix to finally give the franchise a PC release then he must have thrown ludicrous amounts of Fortnite money to secure exclusive distribution rights.
Will be great if I can get their launcher and games running far more easily on my Steam Deck…
Just means more and better support for Linux going forward. This is a good thing.
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.
What missing feature is needed from heroic ? I prefer 1000x time having community driven launcher than official one. Egs is known to be a piece of shit launcher and if any official développement impede on the community one I’m gonna burn something. Also have u tried egs on android ? It unreal how barebone it is. Not sure a linux one will be complete and useful.
Also launcher support ≠ fortnite support
Does getting ones balls gargled actually feel any good?
For the gargler or the gargled ?
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.
They want that fortnite steam machine money
Yep, this is exactly it.
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.
You forgot telemetry 🤗
Oh yes that’s a given!
Linux versions of Epic games store and GOG galaxy is still a big win for everyone
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.
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.
Consider this a capitulation
It’s because giving away 36a463 games didn’t work…
But while windows has that grip, more malware and scams will target windows users. I’m getting tired of seeing good things ruined by their own success.
Is gog galaxy for Linux got anywhere or still in deep dev?
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.
Given that we haven’t gotten it yet, despite years of promise, it seemingly has to be. Isn’t it just a webapp anyway?
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
Ah, well if they’re aiming to make a native client I can see it taking a bunch of extra time.
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, pouring 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)
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.
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.
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
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.
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
lmao yep, you’re definitely not being extremely belligerent over nothing just like I was talking about. 👍
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
Aw hey now, I believe the community can be open-minded about this!
…As long as it’s not Snap. 😂
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.
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.
I’m actually worried about that too.
Epic Games as in Tim Sweeney’s Epic Games?
What are the package names so I can block them from installing please
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.
What is the benefit of attracting more regular users to an OS?
Windows no longer being the dominant OS.
Better software support??? There’s stuff I’m still struggling to replace and I’d rather native linux builds than have to go back for it.
Oh no… It’s stupid 😞
Let me guess. Their kernel malware is going to come to Linux next?
😭 good golden gods the year of the linux desktop is finally upon us.
We just had to wait for windows to get too shitty for average gamer
The year of the linux steam deck
Exactly as in the post. I already have Heroic, so who cares
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.
Yes. We have Heroic, Lutris and Faugus and I really appreciate the work the developers have done. However, I’m 91.7% sure that I will move to the native version as soon it is available. In my experience native versions overall works better than third party ones.
While I do agree that native is often better, in this case I don’t. I actually even use Heroic Launcher on Windows for Epic Games aswell.
Yeah their native client is a special case. It’s actually an unreal engine application that runs chromium to display at least parts of the store.
