Thank you kindly for the help and advice. So far what I’ve gathered from what I may need to do is, since I’ve had the most success with Heroic Launcher, install, play, uninstall, and when I want to play next time, reinstall and play. The only real way I can get around that is leaving my PC on with the launcher open. As soon as I close that launcher and reopen it, the eve launcher tries to do some update and that is breaking it.
I’d seen a video on Youtube mentioning that CCP ended Linux support back in 2009, and that at one time it did run natively on Linux but CCP sees a much smaller userbase with Linux. If I have to do that just to get in the game then so be it. I’d rather not have to feel like I’m forced to Windows. And so far most of my Steam games run fine, but I think at the end of the day I need a new PC overall, as this one was built in 2015 so it’s a bit out of date. And there’s a few games such as OpenTTD, that runs natively in Linux just fine.
I mean so I grew up on MS-DOS 5, moving up to MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, 98SE, XP, 7 and 10. Once microsoft made the whole tpm 2.0 requirement, well my PC doesn’t have tpm, and I don’t want ads constantly on my start menu. It’s supposed to be a friggin Operating System, not some way for a trillionaire company to shove ads down your throat. microsoft at the end of the day care about their shareholders.
Once windows 10 support ended, I wanted to give Linux another try. If I don’t have tpm 2.0 I can’t run windows 11, okay so they’ve pushed me away from their so called operating system to something that I really have a lot more control over. I’ve never had an operating system, even during the days of Windows XP and Windows 7, where I could turn my PC on and start using it. I always had to wait 5 to 7 more minutes for it to fully load everything in. Linux gets to the desktop and I can open a web browser in less time than I can on a Windows operating system. I have an older laptop that has Windows on it, in case I needed to go back to that for something but I haven’t really had to.
So I’d probably fall under the .001%, though Linux did reach a 5% market share which is nice to see it gain some ground. It’s a new operating system, and it’s something I’m learning and familiarizing myself with, just like I did with MS-DOS and Windows, and I am enjoying the change from Windows.
EVE will run on Linux most of the time without any problem, at least not with the problem that you describe - if you use the right distribution and a fitting method for that distribution.
And that is where the problems come in. Linux is just too fragmented. There is no simple click here and it will run out of the box solution like on Windows. Those launchers seem to provide it, but it will always be unstable in the long run, because EVE constantly updates.
There are just so many different launchers these days and if you use that Heroic Launcher that i didn’t even hear about until now, then you need to find people who use it also and have your problem discussed with them. I hope they do a have forum or some channels for that.
This forum has a linux section also. Better ask there or read there. Some are also providing some help on discord and such.
I found that EVE with launchers will always have problems that you are stuck with until the launcher people or is willing to fix it by updating scrips or incorporating a new wine version. I use the oldschool method with wine and no launcher at all. But this needs commandline knowledge and is probably nothing for the casual switcher from Windows who is only accustomed to click around.
I also use plain debian and no fancy gaming distribution or containerized crap like Ubuntu that is common these days.
EVE is always a moving target. And in the end all methods to run it rely on wine. Therefore i use wine directly as provided from the makers because this will address possible problems you will have with EVE in the future first as EVE is no fixed software, it is developed on a daily basis.
Please do not bend the knee to this. All this does i make it so there are two identities that can log into your account, one via the steam auth and one with a username/password combo. I get that there is a 2FA on most accounts, but few would say its prudent to double your attack surface by creating another credential to log into the same account.
Not is is not. Its just the VHS vs Betamax war all over.
Which linux? These instructions I wrote in 2024 are largely still accurate for most linux’s Pop_OS! & EVE Online
God Bless America.
Not quite, CCP had a guy who made a launcher wrapper that made a WINE environment that worked quite well until support was dropped.
When you create the login and password, it delinks from Steam. I know, because 4 or 5 of mine were all started on the same Steam account and converted. Now if I do a fresh install of EvE on Steam, so none of my characters login info is there and start via Steam it creates a new EvE account linked to Steam with no characters on it. The reason for this is when you first install EvE fresh on Steam, Steam creates an account using a hidden ID and password. When you convert to a username and password of your own, that Steam ID and password is discarded and thus your account is now delinked from Steam. Steam will create a new hidden ID and password for a new account the next time EvE is installed fresh.
I had an old account linked to Steam from years ago that I didn’t even know existed, the username was like SteamUser::8355828 or whatever, but I was able to link it to my main account, so it’s effectively an alt of it now, but it doesn’t get used.
And if i remember correctly in the early days they paid the wine derivative Cedega for patches while it existed, because they used it also as wrapper on MacOS before EVE became native for MacOS.
So there was always some support in the background and also today they try to keep their launcher and software runnable with wine. There is just no direct official support.
You have to figure out the setup and everything yourself for your distro and setup.
