You are not giving them your details. Heroic Games Launcher is open source, you can verify their explanations in the FAQ:

"Does Heroic collect my data, username, or password?

No, Heroic is a privacy-centered application and does not collect any data from your computer or device. It does not collect your username, password, or any other personal information. You will login on the official Epic Games Store or GOG website and then Heroic will keep only a token that serves only to list, download and to launch games from those stores."

I’ve played Control using Heroic and it worked great.

I wonder if people opt-in or not?

For me both have their use cases. Heroic is my go to for GOG and Epic games and everything else not Steam (e. g. old Windows install files that I still have lying around). EA App only ran for me on Lutris until one day it didn’t. Then I tried with Bottles and it worked ever since. Not trying to add more confusion, but for some people Bottles has a more intuitive interface than Lutris.

Agreed. Also wondering what companies are employing people that long? In other European countries, companies wont hire people 50+ cause they are deemed too old, inflexible and expensive. I really wonder, if companies in Denmark are different in that regard.

EA App works great with Bottles. I haven’t tried Ubisoft Connect myself, but the website says it works on a “gold” level - so might have some problems.

You can use the Bottles installers for that: https://docs.usebottles.com/bottles/installers Here’s the list of all apps they have preconfigured: https://usebottles.com/appstore/

Well, these launchers can be a bit confusing at first, but you will get used to all that. And if you still have questions, that’s what the community is here for.

You can select GE-Proton in Heroic under “Wine Manager”.

Most games simply work for me in Heroic but sometimes I have to try a few versions until it’s working properly.

Boot times - I have an old and weak laptop, but it still works fine for some purposes. Boot times are so much shorter with Linux and I don’t sit around waiting anymore :)

And here’s KDE’s: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/design

For example: https://phtn.app/post/lemmy.ml/26299109

There are a couple of other posts, you’ll find them quickly if you search for Pewdiepie.

Where would one find that?

KeepassXC is great, but I realised very late in the process of setting it up, that the browser extension does not support Flatpak based browsers: “Please note that in general Flatpak and Snap based browsers are not supported, Ubuntu’s Firefox Snap being an exception.” (https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc-browser/wiki/Troubleshooting-guide)

I hope this might change at some point.

You have to read further. To quote some of it:

“You use steam-installer from Ubuntu repos. There is also the official .deb installer from Valve Their differences: a) Valve’s Steam & steam dependencies get updates. Ubuntu package does not. For now in Mint 22 this is not a problem. Both packages are in the same version or they were the last time I checked but this was quite recently. b) Ubuntu package still uses an obsolete folder layout in your “home” that official Steam doesn’t follow any longer. It was creating some problems.”

This is an older thread but as I said, it was just an example. There’s tons more on that forum.

In Mint most people recommend installing Steam directly from the website as .deb. There are dozens of informative threads on the official forums, which also explain some differences of the installation method, for example: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=427582

I’m always debating between green and blue