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Ubuntu Summit 2023 Day 2 (04 November 2023)Linux Gaming beyond Steam: Building native support for GOG, Epic, and more by Dennis Sädtler, Mr Paweł LidwinOne o...
GOG I can get behind. Fuck Epic however. They deliberately deprecated rocket league's linux version along with stealing it from Steam.
And then there's Epic's spyware, their ass of a CEO, their relationship to Tencent, and probably a few things I'm forgetting at the moment.
Fuck Epic indeed.
Honestly having Heroic and co. is like doing their work for them. At least Steam and GOG are supportive of Linux (much less so in the case of GOG but still), not the case with Tim "Linux=Moving to Canada" Sweeney's Epic "We pretend saving the PC gaming ecosystem by bringing in exclusives and other shit" Games
@JaxiiRuff @mr_MADAFAKA Competition is good, but GOG is the only one I've really seen anyone say they prefer over Steam. For various reasons, the Epic store seems to mainly be used begrudgingly for games only sold there, or to take advantage of free games they give away.
Heroic
Yup, my only complaint is that Steam Deck controller doesn't seem to work automatically with Heroic games launched through desktop mode, and most guides I see recommend running games through Steam.
If Heroic had smooth integration with the Steam Deck, I'd use it a lot more.
my only complaint is that Steam Deck controller doesn't seem to work automatically with Heroic games launched through desktop mode
If you hold start for 1 second in desktop mode you can switch between Desktop and Gamepad profile (which should just emulate a regular gamepad), assuming you don't mean that.
Really? Where is that documented?
From what I see, the only way to do it is to launch Steam and configure it there, and Steam needs to be running while I'm playing whatever game. Or at least that's what I found online. It seems most people add Heroic to Steam, so maybe I'll try that.
It's not documented directly since it's done with Steam's built-in controller customisation. Under desktop mode in Steam Settings -> Controller -> Desktop Layout -> Edit Layout – there are two Action Sets with the start button bound to switch between them on long press. You'll hear a sound when it happens as well and the game will detect it as an Xbox controller.
This acts system wide as long as Steam is running but it won't give you the per-application customisation you get by adding it to Steam.
Thanks! I'll play around with it. I haven't played around with the controller customization that much, just basic things like remapping a couple buttons.
It's never going to have "smooth integration" because it's a competing store.
Dropping to desktop mode, opening HGL, and clicking download, then going back into game mode is probably about as smooth as it gets.
I still have problems with any game in the Heroic Launcher that has well... its own launcher. Just can't get em to work at all.
There's a button in the settings to add all the games to Steam. Then launch them from Steam. That's what I do and have no problems.
Yeah man, HGL for me is just software to download games without installing bloatware and spyware on my system 😂
What is "native" support, in this context?
We already have Lutris, HGL, etc. what else are they trying to add?
Looks like TL;DW - rewrite Heroic in Rust, and rearchitect it a bit to more easily support other stores than GOG and EGS. There's also an intro to other options.
Eh, I think something like Electron makes a lot of sense, but maybe they'll go with tauri instead if it's going to be written in Rust. The app itself isn't really performance sensitive since it basically just launches games in another process, so using a web view isn't really an issue, and could even be helpful in order to handle 2FA and whatnot.
So I wouldn't expect them to rewrite with GTK+ or Qt or something, but who knows!
I work with Electron daily, I swear it's terrible and a pain in the ass for anything vaguely complex. They better go with Tauri for real