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How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux? (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[–] iusearchbtw@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

heroic has no download throttling, very annoying for shared/shitty networks and large games

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you're on Linux, you have a lot more options to affect the system. You could try running Heroic Launcher through trickle: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34116/how-can-i-limit-the-bandwidth-used-by-a-process

Ideally this would be implemented on the client side, i.e. Heroic Launcher, but there seems to some challenges in making that happen: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/597

[–] iusearchbtw@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

bit late to this, but trickle doesn't work because heroic spawns new downloader processes unaffected by trickle's limits

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I'd put that as a feature request honestly, they'll probably add that in at some point