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legendary-gl / legendary

legendary

Legendary - A free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher

3Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

Legendary - A free and open-source replacement for the Epic Games Launcher

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-05-25 12:51:06 UTC to 2021-07-18 21:21:50 UTC.

012020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2021

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20212021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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There's an open-source Epic launcher frontend called Legendary[1] that can automagically manage your Wine/DXVK files with minimal user intervention. It's not even close to how easy Valve makes it, but it's certainly an option if you want to get Epic games working on Linux with minimal hassle. [1] https://github.com/derrod/legendary EDIT: i actually meant to reference the Heroic games launcher, which is the frontend for Legendary. you can find it here: https://github.com/flavioislima/HeroicGamesLauncher
In Out of the top fifty games on Steam, 70% work on Linux
If there's one thing I don't understand about other PC gamers, it's why any of them want to use these stores in the first place. Whenever possible, I buy from GoG, but not because I want to use Galaxy. With GoG, I just download an exe, run the installer, and my game appears in this wonderful launcher called The Freaking Start Menu. It's great. What do I get from using a client? I don't want my games to be integrated into a social network, I just want to play them, and not be interrupted until I'm done. ------ My second choice after GoG is usually itch.io, but my third choice is actually becoming EGS. I'm not sure if this was intentional, but a significant portion (maybe even a majority?) of EGS games don't actually need EGS to run. You can download them with an open-source tool like https://github.com/derrod/legendary, back up the files,
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and run them. I've personally done this with Journey, Beyond Two Souls, Control, and Detroit. A handful of Steam games allow this too (one recent example is Ori and the Will of the Wisps), but it's much less common than on the Epic Store!
In Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well

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