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The Steam Deck has finally been surpassed — by a fork of Valve’s own experience - Bazzite turns the Asus ROG Ally X into today’s best handheld while putting Windows to shame. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

There's nothing stopping epic or GOG from distributing a flatpak for their experiences/stores, the question is where are they?

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Heroic Games Launcher and Lutris both have Epic and GOG integration.

While I would love to have an official GOG Launcher on Linux, it would probably not work as well as Heroic’s integration.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

I'm aware, I just like to gently remind people that the stores they want to shop from, seemingly don't want their money. I view the deck as a kind of linux trojan horse for gaming, SteamOS on more devices could at least convince GOG that linux is worth supporting.

Epic has an axe to grind and I expect nothing from them.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A free game on Epic is too expensive as far as I'm concerned.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Why? I claim them all the time on my phone, and occasionally play them through Heroic. I've never installed EGS on any of my devices, but I've played a few through Steam's integration.

A free game is a free game, but I'll never buy from EGS while they're so hostile to my preferred platform: Linux. I'll occasionally buy from GOG, but honestly, their DRM-free schtick isn't nearly as valuable to me as Valve's investment in Linux.

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