A few days ago I wrote about the Junk Store coming to Steam, a special plugin for Steam Deck to bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility unnoficially - but it seems to be a short lived idea.
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 and primarily designed for 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 be free.
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)
Paid product? I’m not sad, we already have Heroic Games Launcher for free, and it works just fine.
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.
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.
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 Bazziteand primarily designed for 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 be free.It’s available as a open source Decky plugin, but the steam version was going to be a paid closed source rewrite.
I’ve installed it on a Chimera machine also via Decky so I don’t think it’s distro specific.
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)