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GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026 ["I don't want to commit to any specifics, [...] Linux is close to the hearts of our users [...] something we'll be looking at"] (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[โ€“] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This is real iffy. Do you know when that change was made?

Fortunately the thing about GOG is I can drop those launchers anytime I want, I'm not stuck with anything unlike some others. Since Heroic relies on another open source project (I believe) called Comet it's also not hard for an alternative to pop up.

[โ€“] Nils@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't have the exact commit anymore, but it was at the beginning of 2024. I remember going to suggest them to be more straightforward with their changelog, but someone beat me to it.

Yeah, I remember other project for epic, Legendary, that a bunch of people built on top, but it was discontinued recently.

Edit: nevermind, I found the mastodon comment, and the people reporting the problem with gog on github. From there it was easier to find the commit.

https://mastodon.social/@heroiclauncher/111824351634717227 (It was actually a reply to their own mastodon post where the "informed" about the change.

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/commit/2f88dc9af051d1b1a5d79fd1baf584f1b7875168#diff-a80892a1c67a5d05d39672dd972dbb6646c6f82b57a1b6a608db0e77e09adf89

Scroll down to webview/index to see the change. The subsequent commits were all to fix issues caused by this.