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I have SO many games on Epic because they gave them away over the years but I do not use it. I tried not too long ago to install Red Dead Redemption 2 from the Epic Game Store, which I bought many years ago, on Linux and it was a goddamned nightmare that ended up not working.
I bought it again on Steam when it was on sale and it works flawlessly. I abhor the other stores. They don't have reviews, they don't make things easy to use, and they aren't at all committed to customers whatsoever.
I pulled out my VR index stuff a few months back when my partner's parents were in town because I wanted to show her dad, but one of the little lighthouse thingies shit the bed and wouldn't start up. I've had that kit for about 3 years I think but hadn't used it much because we don't have much space in the house and it sucks hooking it all up and taking it down. Anyway, I pinged Valve about it just to see what it would cost to replace one of the lighthouses, and they just sent me a new one for free, no shipping cost or anything. It was goddamned amazing. There are so very few companies out there like them.
The Epic UI and app are truly awful. It helps that you can use Heroic Launcher to install and play games without Epic's own app, but there's still issues with getting some games to run on Linux.
You can also use Lutris to install the games, and then add them to your Steam Library.
Yeah that's how I tried it the first time, then I tried just installing in Wine myself, but that didn't work either. Heroic did work though!