Same here, improved imprived improved. I have been looking to switch to sway and experimented with qtile (… Wayland is the future yo). One thing that stops from moving is feh. I know wayland has it’s own lightweight, image viewer, background setter. But feh is all in one. The closest thing is imv, but I cant get it to render raw images. (… i am aware feh does work in wayland using xwayland but not natively.)
There is legendary which is command line and Heroic which is legendary with gui without telemetry from epic. Heroic also does gog but gog doesnt require a launcher anyways.
Funfact, I have restricted work computer (windows). Certain websites are blocked and installing anything requires remote access by IT to enter admin password (they dont give admin rights temporarily). But it has pip installed.
You can also create a shortcut and set the target as ‘legendary run app-name’. I also have over 300 games I collected from epic. I don’t condone gaming on work time, but it feels nice I can run something other than browser games during compiling and other downtime.
Look, everybody always figures the time they live in is the most epic, most important age to end all ages. But tyrants and heroes rise and fall, and historians sort out the pieces."
The things I would be ok paying a subscription for:
Things that I feel it shouldnot be locked behind subscription and paywall:
If the tooks for backing up offline installers or ability to install previous versions of game are paywalled, that is going to invite more reasons for piracy.