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Gabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

GOG is pretty good but they have zero Linux support that I'm aware of. Had to return a game I bought off there last year. Bought it through Steam and it worked seamlessly.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

Some of their games have Linux support but also it seems very much that they do not care about going out of their way for Linux so it gets forgotten about for most titles

[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

In GOG's defense, they don't have the resources that Steam does but it's still pretty annoying. I have no plans to personally seriously use Windows ever again for personal use but Linux desktop usage is low and not something I'd expect a company that's GOGs size to spend much time on yet. Steam can and does. I respect that a lot.

[-] sep@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Companies can choose to be a part of the solution, or a part of the problem. And i can choose to spend my money on the solution. I would love some redundancy on the linux gaming store front tho, just valve seams a bit fragile. And afaik gog or anyone else can also use proton or???

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like proton is going to bandage it all together. Most indows games that don't have kernel level anti cheat are going to work using a proton layer.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

GOG actually has a relatively good selection of Linux games.

[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Relatively is the key word. I haven't had a serious issue with anything running on Proton and the way Steam implements it. I've had one issue out of one trying to play a game on GOG. Don't get me wrong, I think GOG is great though.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

it's time to learn how to install umu and use it in heroic then, my GoG games run with proton through heroic, no problem.

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