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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heroic is a FOSS launcher that's straight up better. They use a sponsored link to get some kickbacks when you buy GoG games thru their launcher. Seems worth doing every once in a while in order to donate to the actual best launcher for non-Steam games

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TBH using Bottles to run an exe feels more refined than the epic games UI.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Using wine CLI comamnds is more refined than the Epic launcher