It's easy to use epic on steam deck? I need to look into this

Yeah, you need to install the [Heroic launcher](https://heroicgameslauncher.com/). Then you can add any game as a non-steam game, which lets you access it from the nice UI.

I've installed games from both Epic and GOG on my steam deck via Lutris, and after it's installed, it just takes a few clicks to have it visible in non-desktop mode. A little tedious sure, but not terrible.

ahhh damn. It was a post from the person that submitted the wine merge request for Adobe installer support. In it was a screenshot of a steamdeckhq post about his WINE patch he did and Tim Sweeney having a mocking reply to the post about Linux and Adobe users. The dev was celebrating that Tim for whatever reason got a bit triggered about people celebrating his work to get the Adobe installer working in WINE

If epic put money into bringing linux gaming decades ahead of where it was instead of hating on it I would have jumped ship even if they didn't make linux supported hardware that lives on my recliner.

Or install Decky and its plugin Unifydeck to have your Epic and GOG libraries appear seamlessly in your Steam library.

Pointless to try competing? I guess we'd know if there was ever a real competitor on the field.

“Styx” just reminded me Song of Syx, which is an awesome (dwarf) fortress-like indie game. You can give it’s sales an uptick instead while Styx giveaways goes on: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1162750/Songs_of_Syx/

> But you're all rabid to hate on epic If I had to pick between buying a game on Steam or Epic, I would pick the one which did some good things for consumers over the one that stuck their middle finger up at us. There's no denying that Valve's contributions to DXVK, WINE, KDE, and Linux are a self-serving way to ensure Steam remains relevant after Microsoft locks Windows into a walled garden. Even so, the end result was an overall benefit for consumers. We would have had something like Proton eventually, but it would not have come nearly as quickly without their financial backing. What has Epic done? A bunch of free games that I still don't have enough time to play, great. That doesn't make up for the rest of their anticonsumer practices like making exclusivity deals to railroad people into using their store by denying them the option to choose otherwise. Fuck Epic, and fuck Tim Sweeney's self-aggrandizing attitude. If he actually gave a shit about anything other than money, he would have spent his time challenging the "Steam monopoly" by providing a better customer experience, not posting on Twitter acting like the messiah of PC gaming.

You couldn’t pay me to play a game on epic. It’s not even a boycott. They just suck and I’m not broke. I can buy my own games and I’d rather pay than put their software on my pc let alone play on their platform.

You make some good points about Valve's bread crumbs, but my point still stands that this is an article with no other purpose than to reinforce the opinions of those who already had their minds made up about this. The dev possibly included, or inciting the options of those who have. It's a circlejerk post and article. Just because Valve sucks slightly less doesn't mean we need to treat them like god's gaming storefront. If people weren't already on the "fuck Epic" bandwagon this is a non-story.

Literally it's just a storefront. If Epic offered you $100 and you didn't take it because "they suck" you're just an idiot.

Agreed on both points. If it was GOG and not EGS, the reaction would probably be very different. But, because people already hate Epic (for good reason), writing an article that appeals to schadenfreude makes for some easy ad revenue. People also shouldn't be idolizing corporations. They're not our friends; we're only a means to an end for them. Even if one of them doesn't overtly make that clear through its actions, all it takes is a change in leadership or a change in circumstances for enshittification to start.

While I do like the first 2 Styx games (the 3rd one is out soon-ish? if not now?), they are quite the "quicksave/quickload trial and error patience games" and quite deep in the eurojank spectrum. The climbing in the first one is pretty jank, and in both games the character breaks 4th wall deadpool-style pretty often, enemies are dumb as bricks but will absolutely murder you once alerted enough. But on the upside, it's one of those rare stealth games where murder is not penalized at all. That said, the games are great!

Sometimes the DLC for the free game on epic costs the same as the full package on steam. So epic is an extended demo really

It's easy, but at least for me Epic forces me to login again on deck frequently, which is very annoying for quick sessions while commute. Doesn't happen on desktop, which is weird

I bought a game on steam once that I already had on epic for free. It was on sale for like $5 on steam(Hunter: Call of the Wild), and I was curious if all the shader pre-caching and optimizations steam does with the Steam Deck would have it run better with the steam version, compared to the epic games version.

An Epic win for Steam!

I’ve done some in this community it repeatedly over the course of ~2 years. If you don’t want to make an effort why would I.

Nobody cares about Linux, it has user share close to a margin of error in a poll of 1000 people. Valve employing 3 Linux devs doesn’t offset damage to consumers and devs.