Hopefully more improvements will come.
Would be sad to see such a nice thing disappear.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemBest comment in the same vein as above over on phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1299699-canonical-hiring-for-an-ubuntu-linux-desktop-gaming-product-manager#post1299705 [External Link]

If they shipped the recent wine-staging versions and took back the decision for the 32bit libraries, i think we will be in a good position.
Stability and backporting really really important fixes is also valuable for people that just want to play their games and not worry about updating and so on daily.

Ubuntu isn't a rolling distro and shouldn't become one.

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I think the discussions should be done in
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gamebuntu/25544 [External Link]
and
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gaming-on-ubuntu-desktop/25439/ [External Link]
to reach the ubuntu staff and community in the best possible way: their own forum.

Hardly anything to add.
Work with hardware manufacturers to convince them to create open source drivers for their devices and upstream these before the hardware hits the shelfes.

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The new login implementation greatly reduces problems for normal people that are used to username&password instead of the old system with pasting a SID from a json block ;)

It is nice to have a GUI for your games that doesn't rely on proprietary binaries to get your games installed.
Especially when they consider adding other games, this might end up far superior to the galaxy client and its integration plugins.
Clearly something people should get involved in, money and developers to get issues solved fast and the feature requests added is helpful.

https://www.patreon.com/heroicgameslauncher [External Link]
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher [External Link]
I'm sure some of us could help here and i don't mean just creating more feature requests ;)

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It works fine so far with Wine. So even the gog fans can play it already :)

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Quoting: PhlebiacHave you seen GameHub? It seems promising.

There are too many projects out there so i haven't heard of that specific one yet.
Hopefully developer resources aren't spread too thin because of Not Invented Here Syndrome.

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Hopefully more capable developers get inspired by this work and create such open source tools for the other game launchers /stores out there.

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Often game sources are lost and have to be reverse engineered.
I think more Studios should publish their sources.
Although raw assets would also help to preserve and improve the original game.

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even if it is not possible to replace all the different launchers, it would still be nice if the ones that can be unified will be unified.
Every little bit helps.

You have a shop, an updater, an installer, social functions as baseline, maybe some statistics and achievements. That should cover 99% of these apps.

We will see how far this project gets.
Maybe some people will donate time and money to improve shop support. There is a donation page.

I think if we end up with two applications, steam and heroic, it would be already quite an achievement.

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Quoting: EhvisBut we are working on the redesign first, because we want to support other stores, GOG for instance, soon. Maybe on 2.0 I expect :)

Hopefully with game stats and Plugins and achievements in the end :)

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