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Quoting: WMan22I really hope they follow through on that itch.io support.

Apart from Steam, itch is the only store with Linux support, focusing on stores without Linux support would be better IMO.

True, but at the same time itch.io has an open api I believe so would easier to do in comparison with the others. But I'm not sure we have started investigating that yet. Amazon will come first for sure.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFlávio:

The thing is that I don’t really have time to setup things from scratch so I like to use distros that does most of the work for me and I just need to configure basic things for my workflow.

Also Flávio:

The ones I used the most were . . . Slackware and Gentoo

:grin:

Ahahahaha

I used Slackware and gentoo when I had no kids or heroic and a lot of free time. Today that would be almost impossible. I remember that took me 3 days to fully install gentoo at the time, from stage 3. And Slackware I needed to write a lot of bash scripts for it to be functional and compile all softwares I needed. Crazy times 😅

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On mobile I don't recommend using the latest amd CPU at all if you use Linux. Had this terrible experience with a tuxedo laptop with ryzen 6900HX where the keyboard did not work when using kernel newer than 5.19. So using distros like Garuda or pop_os was impossible.

I think same thing is happening with the GPUs now, we are always beta testers. Maybe after one year of launch it is time to buy.

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Thanks for sharing this, Liam. A lot of people were confused since this change happened just after a new Heroic version was released and our Discord was full of people with issues and saying something like: After the new update, everything broke, I cannot install anything, etc.

And we were like: What!? checking code, testing stuff just to realize was on Epic's end. ahahahah

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Quoting: benjamimgoisThis is one of the coolest gaming projects on linux right now.

Thanks! :D

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Quoting: Liam DaweSideloading just means third-party. In this case, not from Heroic directly. It fits fine IMO.

Exactly, we could not think of a better name to describe it.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWtf is app sideloading on Linux? All it really means on Android/iOS is to install something outside of the Google/Apple store. It isn't like this hasn't always been a thing in computer land.

Does this feature just add shortcuts for stuff installed via apt/dnf (for example)?

This means that Heroic stops being only an Epic and GOG games launcher to a more general games/app launcher.
This is useful if you want to, for instance, add not supported launcher to Heroic, native or not. Some examples could be the Ubisoft and EA apps, itch IO, some games that you have downloaded on your machine, etc.
It won't find anything automatically on your machine, if that is what you mean, you will need to add it from there.

Another example is to use a CLI tool like Nile to download your Amazon games and add it to Heroic.

Might be a useful feature to some people and others might never use it as well. but it is good to have this possibility.

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Quoting: PlintslîchoOut of curiosity: is it possible to only download games from GOG.com with this launcher?

You mean using it for GOG only and not Epic?
Yes you can.
On beta you can even use Heroic without Epic or GOG accounts and add your games or other launchers to it.

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Just in time for mine that is coming soon.
I just expect not to die of anxiety until it comes :grin:

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Got my invitation yesterday and I am pretty eager to start tinkering with it. :D

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