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Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[โ€“] Ulrich 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, well, I've had better luck with Heroic than Steam proper

I don't believe you.

it boils down to my GoG library being safely backed up in storage media and preserved safely

You can do the same with DRM-free Steam games. If you don't understand that, I can't help you but you're wrong.

[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io -3 points 2 days ago

Dude, I absolutely have. I was on Manjaro and had some mishaps with the runtime vs native versions of Steam accidentally being installed at once and with trying to use NTFS as a shared drive (since it was a dual boot) that did permanent damage. To this day Proton Experimental shows up on my Windows install of Steam and won't uninstall, and I had to wipe all variants of Steam manually twice and start over to get it to sort of work. It was a mess.

Heroic was supposed to struggle with Gamescope, but on my KDE Plasma/Wayland install it picked everything up first time.

I by no means say that's the norm, but "it works on my computer" is never a valid answer, particularly with Linux. Steam has a LOT of remaining quirks despite official support.

And no, you can't do the same with DRM-free Steam games. You can copy the installation folder, you don't get a per-policy DRM-free install package you can preserve and install stand-alone for every game.