Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam?
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Yes. However, before they started supporting and prefering linux and working on proton then getting any game working on linux was a real mess and the average person couldn’t do it for most games.
Sadly most other games stores in the digital space like gog don’t give a shit about linux, thus there is still no galaxy on linux, nor are their preservation efforts coming to linux for a long time.
For the games that natively run on Linux I don’t see any difference in how they’re preserved. Haven’t encountered anything that doesn’t run on modern systems.
With that said they could get an easy win by making a Linux version of Galaxy and borrowing Proton to run non-Linux titles.
I have, sadly. On steam once the native linux version of a game wouldn’t run but the windows one would through proton.
However, yeah I agree, they could so I don’t know why they don’t.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Yeah, I set up heroic launcher to play some games from GOG, but achievements didn’t work when I tried it and save sync was kind of buggy. So for GOG just stuck to playing on Windows, since I do want my achievements and time tracked.
I wish other big platforms tried more in trying help escape Windows instead of just being bystanders and not even bothering with Linux launchers themselves.
muhyb@programming.dev 2 days ago
Time tracking and achievements work for me. You might need to update GOG reditrubutables package though Heroic should do it automatically.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Must have gotten an update since I last used it. That’s a nice change.
muhyb@programming.dev 2 days ago
Yeah, it is. There is even a cloud sync feature now (though it’s still in beta, mostly works). Only thing missing is limiting download speed. Apparently GOG need to do that through
gogdl.SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Yeah, it’s sad that they don’t, gog really needs to get on it imo. Though have you tried running galaxy through proton?
I want that too, heck even Epic could easily make their games native to linux with a single button press but they don’t want to.