Epic Games Game launcher now officially supports Linux (.AppImage build from site)

nfreak 61 points 3 days ago

It's also a vibecoded mess and they're literally advertising it as such: https://bsky.app/...

Legitimately I'd suggest ditching it entirely, or at the very least removing any financial or personal info from your account, because this shit just screams "massive financial breach" in 3-6 months tops.

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geneva_convenience 34 points 2 days ago

Sounds like Epic achieved perfect feature parity with their Windows launcher.

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maya_s_trojan 10 points 2 days ago

Beyond all that... AppImage? Fuck that's what they're going with, really? I get that it's platform agnostic or whatever but it's literally my least favorite way to get an app delivered to me because it's so fucking opaque. I know that's probably an unpopular opinion, but I do, I hate AppImages. It feels like the lazy assholes way of committing to Linux support when they're a giant corporation. This isn't some guy coding it all on his own in his basement for no money because it's open source. I can live with that because that guy is just one guy and maybe doesn't have the time or resources to pack it five different ways. But a company that big? Go fuck yourself, Tim Sweeney.

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nfreak 6 points 2 days ago

I didn't even think of that but honestly yeah that's kind of insane LMAO

Like I have no problem with appimages for smaller tools, and at least things like Shelly make maintaining them much easier nowadays, but for something like this, what the fuck

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Routhinator 4 points 2 days ago

I'd rather have a raw binary like what Godot puts out.

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XiJinpingStanAccount 2 points 2 days ago

I agree. I'd rather build from source.

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OhmeHose 7 points 2 days ago

It doesn't even come with a "shopping basket" (function).

I swear my local LLM could have written this mess in less then a day.

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PattyMcB 1 point 2 days ago

It sounds like they did use a shitty local llm (not necessarily implying that your local llm is shitty, but theirs definitely was)

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bad1080 1 point 2 days ago

How do I delete my Epic Games Account?
https://www.epicgames.com/...

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ZeroHora 33 points 2 days ago

1.8x faster startup than Steam*

1.2x faster from the background to your library than Steam*

Yeah sure that's definitely the problem with steam glad that Tim Sweeney fixed that for me, I'm so ready to ditch steam now.

I hate marketing bullshit.

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AppleMango 8 points 2 days ago

*Average of 5 tests on each of 13 machines, excluding the 3 lowest-end machines tested.

Is this normal??

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Quintus 16 points 2 days ago

Somebody's late to the party.

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eremophila 9 points 2 days ago

Somebody brought poop as a present

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thingsiplay 3 points 2 days ago

There are still some leftovers.

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DonutsRMeh 14 points 2 days ago

Aaaaaaahhhh Sweeny swine dude. How the turns tabled. He came back like the little bitch he is. 😂😂😂😂. And now since it’s way too late, watch no one from the Linux community touch this trash.

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Buffalox 11 points 2 days ago

100% agree, I don't think I'll ever use Epic store because of the way they decidedly sabotaged Linux in the beginning.

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PattyMcB 8 points 2 days ago

All the exclusives are trash and the launcher performs like shit even on windows. Keep it. I don't want it.

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DarkMetatron 14 points 2 days ago

Perfect, a vibe coded mess with full access to all files in my filesystem. Yeah, no thank you! I stay with heroic launcher to look at my collection of free epic games that I never play...

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furzegulo 7 points 2 days ago

cool. won't use it with a ten foot pole.

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CaptainBasculin 4 points 2 days ago

Can I play competitive games like Fortnite?

Yes, once you’re in a game you’re good to go. All of the services will work as intended, and there’s nothing that would prevent casual or competitive play.

It's good seeing more popular games adapt to Linux by adjusting their AC.

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AppleMango 2 points 2 days ago

The one right below it mentions that some games aren't compatible with Linux. It says "once you're in a game", but I bet Fortnite won't even launch.

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thingsiplay 2 points 2 days ago

Why not just download and upload image or do screenshot, instead photograph?

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shweddy 2 points 2 days ago

Not a photo

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thingsiplay 2 points 2 days ago

I see. I thought the effect is some reflection, because it is blocked on my system. I'm sorry for the confusion.

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muhyb 4 points 2 days ago

That's a vibe-code effect /s

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Buffalox 3 points 2 days ago

I agree it kind of looks like that, It's an absolutely horrible screenshot, that was taken just as the worst screen effect was active.
Seems like they've removed it too?

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corsicanguppy -8 points 2 days ago

Nb: Appimages are toxic. Ask a security person.

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Thaurin 17 points 2 days ago

Don’t post that and not explain.

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daggermoon 11 points 2 days ago

Non-binary? How are appimages toxic? Are you a security person?