A couple of weeks ago, Heroic Games Launcher was updated to bring various improvements to the app's design. It also changed something important for Linux users.
You may have heard of Proton, the compatibility layer based on Wine, which helps users run Windows games on Linux. Proton is developed by Valve, primarily for SteamOS. There are forks of it, one popular version is GE-Proton, which itself has been forked and spun-off.
There is a debate among the Linux Gaming community that some versions of Proton are better than others. Some like Valve's own Proton, some prefer GE-Proton, there are versions that ship with some distros. There is no best version, it really depends on the game that you're running, some games run on older versions of Proton, while some perform better on the latest version.
Heroic Launcher lets users choose which Wine version they want to use, on a per-game basis. That's very useful as some games may run better on a certain version of Wine, or Proton, Proton Experimental, etc. Now, the previous update for Heroic Games Launcher, version 2.18.0, to be precise, hid non GE-Proton versions by default. What this essentially meant was that you could only choose between the Wine, Wine GE, and Wine Staging versions.
See, this was the problem. Heroic Games Launcher decided to disable all Non-GE Proton versions by default. This could have confused users, who were unaware of the change, as they couldn't select any versions of Proton, be it the Proton Hotfix version, Experimental, an older version, or Proton-CachyOS, Proton-EM, Proton-Sarek. The developers of the launcher have admitted that the change they made was controversial, and have reverted it.
Heroic did place a warning right beneath the Wine Version selection menu that said that Non-GE Proton versions were ignored, and that they can be enabled from the Advanced settings. But, some users were unhappy with the change.
Heroic Games Launcher 2.18.1 Hotfix #1, which was released yesterday on GitHub, fixes the problem. Instead of hiding the other versions of Proton, it only hides Valve's Proton versions. But it doesn't do so by default, according to the release notes, this toggle is now opt-in, not opt-out.
So users who don't want to use the latest versions of Proton from Valve can choose to disable it from the Settings > Advanced page. The other versions should still be available.
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