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GOG Fighting the Good Fight (lemmy.ca)
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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Again, has nothing to do with GOG. I have no idea why you are bringing up other launchers. Maybe to be helpful I guess? But its really off topic. Point is gog kept telling me they would do something for LInux, yet never did. My only OS has been Linux since about 2002. I have been a member of GOG's since 2010, so its not like I am against them.

But what the heck I have some time:

Open Source launchers don’t care how you sourced some of your games

Steam doesnt care either. Although Steam also makes "sailing the high seas" pointless (as does gog frankly) as they are so cheap on sale.

I suppose you haven't used Lutris long enough to remember how bad it was. Started out great, then It became nearly unmaintained, scripts were breaking, there were regressions. I quit using it a long time ago. Now people are questioning the devs use of Claude AI, so I think I will pass.

Heroic on the other hand is pretty good, I have it on my steam deck. I don't use it much though.

I disagree with you on Steam though. It is the easiest and simplest tool of them all. Remember when you could link your gog games to steam, so that was all taken care of?

Really I don't want to launch from GOG galaxy, I just want to be able to log in, browse my library and download on any device. Like steam does.

I often start the game from a desktop shortcut and have to wait for Steam to update before the game starts

Yikes! I hate desktop shortcuts. So much so that I have my desktop set to not allow items in the desktop folder. In any case how long does it take steam to update? 10 seconds maybe? Its never frequent.

Worth mentioning that Valve contributes greatly to Wine and Proton obviously (as does Codeweavers), and none of this would be as good as it is without them.

GOG offering the API is a good step in the right direction of course. Their mission is even better, so don't think I am against them.