My experience with Heroic has been... okay. I think the big issue is that a lot of tools are built with Steam in mind and not Heroic, which unintentionally adds friction.

I’m using epic on Steam deck.

I have to tweak something every now and then but I just won a Star Wars Resurgence giveaway here on Lemmy and with a tiny bit of work it runs perfectly.

I’ve been using Linux since Redhat 5.2 so I’m definitely used to workarounds and alternative solutions haha.

It just... doesn't work as well as Steam. For example:

• cloud saves between devices - sometimes I'll decide to play on my Steam Deck, and later on my PC
• controller configuration
• game selection - GOG/publisher issue, not Heroic

It works fine, but given that it's worse than Steam and GOG doesn't support it, I don't really see how it makes my life much better. Yeah, DRM-free is nice, but many (most?) if my games on Steam are also DRM-free, they're just not labeled or packaged as such, so I can often just copy the game directory somewhere and run w/o Steam running.

So GOG needs to give me a better reason to use their service. I'm not going to jump through hoops just because "DRM-free" is advertised instead of hidden. For me, that means one of the following:

• Galaxy client on Linux
• official backing of Heroic launcher (financial and listing on their website)
• commitment to an open API (these unofficial docs exist, but it can change at any time)

Pick one and I'll feel more confident in using their products.