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That didn't last long - the Junk Store for Steam Deck has its Steam page removed
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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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Paid product? I'm not sad, we already have Heroic Games Launcher for free, and it works just fine.
It said it was free to download and use but a convenience charge for getting it on Steam.
But like you, I'm also happy with Heroic, and there's also Lutris.
There are a few foss programs and games that do that and it does make sense since it costs money to put things on steam.
I didn't agree with it being a paid product either. And I might have been misunderstanding so don't take my word on this, but I think it was originally open source and free (at least in money, not sure about freedom) ~~for those running Bazzite~~ and primarily designed for Bazzite Linux and that they planned to keep supporting that version, so I feel like all that would do for the Steam Deck is incentivize people to install Bazzite Linux on it so that it would be free.
It's available as a open source Decky plugin, but the steam version was going to be a paid closed source rewrite.
I've installed it on a Chimera machine also via Decky so I don't think it's distro specific.
Oh yeah, I didn't mean to make it sound like it was distro-speciffic, I just think that Bazzite was the primary platform target originally (but I might be wrong)