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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Oddly it’s GOG games that gave me the most trouble. Steam has gone seamlessly with just a right click to select proton in compatibility for each game.

Lutris & Wine handled GOG.

Next up is seeing if ME Legendary and AC Odyssey will fxn.

But yes, I just had a conversation with someone last week. He bought a new Windows 11 laptop because his favorite games wouldn’t work when flipped his old one over to Linux.

[–] the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

Try using Heroic launcher for GOG. It makes things super easy though it does not sort kernel level anti-cheat (obviously)

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried the heroic launcher for your GOG games? It's trivial to connect your account and download/install the games (and select the compatibility layer of your choice). There an option to add the games to steam too.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 3 points 3 days ago

They’re working in Lutris now that I’ve sorted how to manually set each game up, but I’m open to trying other things. My partner did Mint with a windows partition, and I’m trying to see just how far I can get without windows. Options are good.

[–] altialtiOSIBIL@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But the thing is, the average user won't be able to do that. So Linux is not viable as a gaming OS.

As long as there are exceptions to just installing and starting the game, then it's not an alternative

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 3 points 2 days ago

valve already proved you wrong with Steam Deck