Is strange that it took them SO long, Linux + DRM Platform is like the perfect combination
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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they went independent in December. i think its the new direction
no DRM Platform, but yes
Finally!
No thanks . . . but I'm glad that those of you who want it will be able to have it.
Why not? (Genuine question, maybe I can learn something about it I didn’t know)
Just an extra piece of software of no real benefit to me. I'm only interested in single-player offline games, and I prefer to organize what I have using a directory structure rather than someone else's GUI. I try to avoid installing anything I don't have any use for to avoid unnecessary disk bloat and just in case it drags along some daemon with a nasty security bug. If you actually want the features Galaxy offers, I'm not aware of anything evil about it.
Praise be!
But why? Just contribute to Heroic instead.
Because money
They want to spend more money on their own launcher instead of just profiting from the existing FOSS one?
Couldn't they just buy some irrevocable licenses of ancient games to actually enable eternal preservation instead?
I didn't say they were smart
Probably just want to be able to control the user experience honestly. It's sort of what your average "consumer" expects. Maybe they could fork Heroic, but I don't really think that benefits either party long term, but I'm not super intimate on the long term life cycles of open source projects, perhaps there would be enough overlap still to offer good opportunities for up streaming despite the difference in design direction.
Ooooooh. Super happy to see this. Gives us more options and being to buy games without DRM is really nice.