legendary VS HeroicGamesLauncher

You should try using Legendary. It's an open-source command-line client for Epic. It does pretty much what Epic does but it's quicker to install/launch games and you won't have to worry about telemetry or "spyware." Although, you will have to buy games through the Epic online store.

It's an epic games launcher alternative, and a UI frontend for Legendary. (Don't worry, guys. It can launch non-epic games as well 😅) It's simply meant to be like heroic, but this time putting macOS first.

If you are familiar with using the command-line then you can use Legendary and import the game to your EGS, but you will need to do this one by one for each game.

Hay un launcher alternativo, Legendary. (https://github.com/derrod/legendary). Se usa con comandos (al menos la última vez que lo usé no tenía interfaz). Es.. interesante.

If you want to avoid using the Epic Games Launcher, but still want to play the games you have there, you can use Legendary (which requires you to use a command line) or Heroic Games Launcher(which is based on Legengary and has a Graphical User Interface, so is much more user friendly). Both are open source.

Still no fix for the Epic Games login error caused by certain Unicode characters in names. However, the GitHub issue in the Legendary repo has been closed with a reference to a commit from 4 days ago, so I'm hopeful that the next release of Heroic will finally fix it, if it will upgrade Legendary to the latest version.

It's a wrapper around the open source cli epic games launcher, https://github.com/derrod/legendary

Grab your favorite EGS client and install the game. For this purpose I am using legendary. Legendary is important later, so it is a good idea to have it installed regardless. At this stage, if you try running the game, the game will crash within moments, and spawn 2 windows: a Wine debug window, and a bugsplat window.

Note there is an open source alternative to the epic launcher in case you don't trust it : Legendary (command line based) https://github.com/derrod/legendary Rare (standalone user friendly frontend for Legendary) https://github.com/Dummerle/Rare Heroic (another user friendly standalone frontend for legendary) https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher

Legendary works great if you're on Linux: https://github.com/derrod/legendary

Uses the native Qt library and less resources than Steam.

https://github.com/flavioislima/HeroicGamesLauncher you can kinda yeet official EGS with this

Also all Blizzard games work perfectly in linux since improvements around 1-2 years ago, and there is now a native epic games launcher where lots of non-steam games work. People have also gotten Battlefront 2 and similar Origin games working, but I don't have much experience with that.

Is this the epic replacement you're referring to? I haven't heard of this before. I've been running epic games through proton and it's a bit of a PITA. would be nice to have a more seamless experience.

its also on the todo list of https://github.com/flavioislima/HeroicGamesLauncher

It is not native Linux support, which would be a whole different ballgame... but there is Heroic Games Launcher: https://github.com/flavioislima/HeroicGamesLauncher. It's an open source Epic Games Store GUI for the Legendary EGS command-line tool.

I did install it. But the game I am trying to play (Battlefront 2) is not showing up because it needs to be downloaded via origin. And this is not supported by Heroic. So I need to install the proper Epic store to be referred to origin in order to install it (there is no way to do this in the browser).

you should be using heroic instead of what you're attempting to do anyways. https://github.com/flavioislima/HeroicGamesLauncher

This is the Heroic Games launcher, and I've found it to work great, you'll need to follow some steps to link it to your epic account and while it won't show the store all your games will easily be launched from there.

The deb file is here: https://github.com/flavioislima/HeroicGamesLauncher/releases/download/v1.0.0/heroic_1.0.0_amd64.deb