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Maxima is an open-source replacement for the EA Desktop/Origin game launcher, running natively on Linux and Windows (github.com)
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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Neat!

Could maxima-cli be used to implement EA support in Heroic? Feels odd to not consolidate considering it already does Epic, GOG and Amazon.

Refactoring Maxima to new architecture allowing multiple frontends to co-exist

Maybe yes eventually?

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heroic FAQ:

In order to add support for another store, we would first need for a CLI too for the given store to already exist that could manage the basic features we expect: login, fetching data, installation, etc.

Looks promising.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

Yup. Hence my speculation. Heroic is a frontend for existing cli-based launchers.