Quoting: eggroleYou can install them fine with Heroic. It is as simple as Add Game -> Select Executable (or installer) and go.

I simply haven't been as lucky, or maybe I should give it a try again. To me it feels like Lutris is more reliable when installing games. Or it could be the Proton version I'm using being the culprit... Which one do you use to install games on Heroic ?

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XFCE would probably be my second choice after KDE. I really like its super lightweight and functional focus.

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Quoting: PyrateAffinity Studio teasing Linux support

Could you please provide a link where they did so?

https://techcentral.co.za/affinity-for-linux-canvas-next-big-move-could-reshape-the-desktop-software-market/274861/ [External Link]

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Quoting: MinoscerebI guess it goes to show how seldom I actually play anything on EGS.

I was exactly the same, and it turns out that not having to deal with a shitty launcher does lead to wanting to play those free games. Give it a shot, you might end up like me, actually choosing to play those freebies because of the much much better UX.

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Will 2026 truly be the real year of Linux gaming on the desktop?

Between this, and Adobe Photoshop getting a Wine fix, Affinity Studio teasing Linux support, and the new Vulkan extension that will apparently fix the performance loss on Novidia..

Yeah, I'd say this is the year 😁.

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Quoting: MinoscerebI like the look of Heroic, it's a lot better designed visually than Lutris and feels more user friendly, but since Lutris can run all the stores Heroic can, and at least for GoG has access to lots of useful scripts for things like mods or just actual playability, I don't see a use case for Heroic for myself. I'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

Unless this was changed, Lutris installs EGS meaning you have to deal with that garbage game store. Heroic basically bypasses any store it integrates and just asks you to login to the services to serve the games you have purchased.

My use case for Lutris over Heroic is for those game setup files I find laying on the ground after they fell off a truck full of game setup files. The customizability shines better there, even if both programs are capable of the same end results eventually.

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Fuck. Bungie.

The good thing here is this plagiarising piece of trash is likely to fail miserably.

I wouldn't be surprised actually if, out of desperation, they enabled Linux support for the brownie points.

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In my experience, Heroic is so effortless and versatile that I don't think I'd use Galaxy even if it had native Linux support.

Agreed. And it's to the point where I actually don't know what they could contribute to the likes of Heroic. Every GOG game I have is click Install then Play.

Is there some sort of missing features and integrations they could help with ?

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I hope Valve goes all in and makes an official Steam client flatpak.

Also hope SteamOS finally moves to Wayland whenever the Frame and Machine come out.

Flatpak's advantages are curious, I've noticed that the convenience benefits it brings have started to come in opposition with the security and containerization aspect it first featured. For me, I'd drop the containerization if it meant Flatpak becoming the user package manager for all Linux. Maybe there can be a standalone variant for the security benefits so that aspect is still present in a separate capacity.

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I think I've had the issue of Sleep not getting block when playing a game with a controller maybe once or twice ever. Now that I think about it, I would've said it's probably game-specific. But I don't really know since it rarely ever happened to me.

Exciting to see KDE continuing to evolve.

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