I’ve just installed Epic Game Launcher on the Deck and had an issue where the starting screen was black. I’ve already find the fix in * this discussion.

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Thanks to — Lopsided_Elephant_24 • 1 hr. ago • Edited 45 min. ago

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I found something that seems to work. In the 3rd party launcher in Steam used for the Epic game launcher, go to Properties->Shortcut->Target, and change the text to:

“{The path to the epic game launcher}/EpicGamesLauncher.exe” -opengl

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From Ayinde6 — LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS FOR YOU

  • Telorand
    10·
    7 months ago

    I don’t. My entire Epic library is freebies, and it’s well over 200 games at this point. I can’t imagine them getting telemetry data that says the host OS is Linux is the kind of “support” that turns them away from reconsidering Linux.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      7 months ago

      I’m just a guy on the Internet, do whatever. 🤷‍♂️ Just seems silly spending time fighting to use software from a company that actively campaigns against linux and calls it nonviable. I can understand corporate indifference, but epic is different. And unfortunately, wine/proton identify host os as windows 7.

      • Telorand
        3·
        7 months ago

        Sure. I wasn’t being combative, just pointing out that there are cases that don’t give them much support. And if Proton reports as Win 7 (a discontinued OS), then it becomes a wash, since the alternative would have been Windows 10/11 anyway.

        If they want to miss out on the market share of Steam Deck users, that’s their poor business choice to make.

      • yokonzo@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Didn’t they just win a lawsuit against google for “noncompetitive and monopolistic practices”?