It said it was free to download and use but a convenience charge for getting it on Steam.
But like you, I’m also happy with Heroic, and there’s also Lutris.
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sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Paid product? I’m not sad, we already have Heroic Games Launcher for free, and it works just fine.
Dave@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 day ago
There are a few foss programs and games that do that and it does make sense since it costs money to put things on steam.
MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I didn’t agree with it being a paid product either. And I might have been misunderstanding so don’t take my word on this, but I think it was originally open source and free (at least in money, not sure about freedom) for those running Bazzite Linux and that they planned to keep supporting that version, so I feel like all that would do for the Steam Deck is incentivize people to install Bazzite Linux on it so that it would work.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It’s available as a open source Decky plugin, but the steam version was going to be a paid closed source rewrite.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve installed it on a Chimera machine also via Decky so I don’t think it’s distro specific.
MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to make it sound like it was distro-speciffic, I just think that Bazzite was the primary platform target originally (but I might be wrong)