You can now easily run the Epic Store on Linux with Lutris, Epic suggests applying for a grant

Quoting: Audi

Quoting: omer666@epic, look at Quake Champions. That's the kind of games we want to play: Violent, fast-paced FPS. Not some gimmicky nonsense for kids.

I agree. In watching videos of Fortnite, it just looks slow and boring. I play Ballistic Overkill. The game is fast paced, fun to play and runs great on Linux.

I agree. I tried Fortnite on someone else's machine, and I didn't see the appeal at all. Give me Ballistic Overkill any day...

Another +1 for Ballistic Overkill. :)

Quoting: ixnariI applaud the Lutris team for their efforts. However, this is a feature I will not be using for the foreseeable future. The Epic Game Store is so blatantly anti-consumer, it sickens me. I get what they're trying to do: they're trying to make a competitor to Steam and break up Valve's market share. But they are doing this by stepping on every single toe they can see by buying up games and making them exclusive to their store when they weren't before (Metro: Exodus, Satisfactory, etc.).

As a consumer, this irritates me greatly. I want choice, not forced exclusivity. Mr. Sweeney doesn't seem to mind, though. EGS is a very developer-oriented store as this article points out. The consumers are very much second-class citizens at Epic, which quite frankly, would be reason enough for me to ignore EGS completely, even if I weren't using Linux. Articles like this one don't help either. In this one Tim seems to suggest that gamers are ignorant, because we "don't understand" what Epic is doing, which is as we all know, a great way to win over customers.

tl;dr: Epic bad.

I completely agree! Epic tells us Valve is greedy. But the 18% is not enough for Epic either! To increase their income, it seems that they market user data. At least this is what you cand find in EGSs privacy policy.
From data like that, corporations like Epic learned they can treat consumers badly up to a certain point. Consumers simply keep consuming, maybe sometimes even after a short period of shitstorm. That's what Microsoft does with every new Windows version.
I also won't support exclusive deals for the same reason!

Quoting: qptain Nemo

Quoting: Purple Library GuySo Linux users can now use the Epic store!
. . . Ask me if I care.

Do you care?

No. :)

How about we look at the Epic Games Store (EGS) like it's something new? How about acknowledging the need for a business to establish a new product first, and later evaluate expansion opportunities? How about considering the fact that opening the EGS client for Linux-based operating systems also means dealing with a different set of other customer support issues?

My point is that whatever their plans are, it makes perfect sense for them to be cautious with a market that they're new to. It's only logical to take smaller steps and see where it leads, while making sure what is built can sustain itself, because no one wants to burn money just because they have a lot of it.

As a Linux user for nearly 2 decades now, I also want more software available on my distros of choice - or at least the most popular ones. But we know a long list of reasons why Windows still has a large market share and how that impacts the decisions of other software makers. So why not leave them to do whatever they have planned and see where everything goes, without any kind of drama? We can still criticize the exclusive games, in a civilized/mature manner, without throwing them under a bus for not supporting Linux early on.

Aren't we supposed to be "smarter" than the average PC user because we're aware of, care for and uphold privacy and software freedom? Let's also try to be better people, not just more informed. I'm tired of all the drama we see all over the internet. Let's make our community a better one, for fun's sake.

Well, The epic store does not like the Vega 64 which is deemed to not meet the 'minimum system requirements' :)
Also, using the latest stable mesa is not latest enough it seems (https://i.imgur.com/PDrV5QI.png).

Epic store --> to the trash can (for now).
Call me when Epic will use its billions correctly by creating a native client, instead of buying exclusives.


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Arghhhhh. I installed it and it says I have an incompatible graphics card. Is it because I have an AMD one? My far less powerful, old desktop running Windows 10 with an intel cpu and nvidia gpu can run it (although not very well lmao).

It workedd - I grabbed a free beer thingy - it updated itself and i fiddled with some options - it stoppt working - and now I play Epics 'The Witness' via Steam/Proton.... somehow this feels wrong. On another note: Go grab some money for a job well done Strider!

Quoting: kneekooHow about we look at the Epic Games Store (EGS) like it's something new? How about acknowledging the need for a business to establish a new product first, and later evaluate expansion opportunities? How about considering the fact that opening the EGS client for Linux-based operating systems also means dealing with a different set of other customer support issues?

My point is that whatever their plans are, it makes perfect sense for them to be cautious with a market that they're new to. It's only logical to take smaller steps and see where it leads, while making sure what is built can sustain itself, because no one wants to burn money just because they have a lot of it.

As a Linux user for nearly 2 decades now, I also want more software available on my distros of choice - or at least the most popular ones. But we know a long list of reasons why Windows still has a large market share and how that impacts the decisions of other software makers. So why not leave them to do whatever they have planned and see where everything goes, without any kind of drama? We can still criticize the exclusive games, in a civilized/mature manner, without throwing them under a bus for not supporting Linux early on.

Aren't we supposed to be "smarter" than the average PC user because we're aware of, care for and uphold privacy and software freedom? Let's also try to be better people, not just more informed. I'm tired of all the drama we see all over the internet. Let's make our community a better one, for fun's sake.

You are 100% Right..

IMO, I'm fine with Lutris choosed to received the grants. You know, if EG offers you FN money, take it! Or another greedy devs/pubs will suck it till dry and you'll got nothing but a poop.
But! Lutris MUST openly disclosed the TOC or any sort of agreements with EG in details for sake of good faith to their users.

And do it loudly on all major social medias! I hate it when any companies/organization/groups, if it's good PR-news, they'll announce loudly on many medias (social, press, Tv etc). But, when it's bad/shady PR-news, they put press statement which requires many clicks and/or download nearly 100 MB of PDF documents just to read it and wrote it with small fine prints which requires 200% zoom.

Personally, I won't use it if EG still continuing on timed exclusive deals and still not/refuse improving security and privacy to global decent levels.
Still, I applauded EG for at least showed they cared for Linux even do it's looks like 1/4 cooked meat with astroturf as spices, at least for them we're exists...