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If its available on both, GOG. Always. Even if the game was $15 om gog and $6 on steam.

I play them through steam with Proton. It’s tedious installing and adding the games, and updates are a similar manual process as installing them. But, I want to support DRM free software.

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tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is it just adding the game as external game on steam and then configuring it with the correct proton version etc?

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- uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep. Can also be done very easily with Heroic Launcher.
  
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  - dudinax@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lutris can also launch GOG games in proton
    
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- okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sort of. It might be a good idea to see what the mentioned Heroic Launcher does. What I do is tedious and cumbersome.
  
  Download all gog install files and place them in some folder.
  
  Add a non-steam game for the installer executable, with the corresponding working directory
  
  Run the “game”, with the proton compatibility mode enabled.
  
  After installing, change the entry from 1, to point to the game executable (you’ll have to search for it), and corresponding working directory.
  
  When installing, it is sort of the same story. Download update files. Run the update. Change the entry back.
  
  I’m sure there are better ways to do this. So I’ll probably check the Heroic Launcher. I remember trying similar things in the past, and I wasn’t all that happy with it.
  
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MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is there a guide on how to do that?

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- okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  lemmy.world/comment/11978050
  
  Though consider other suggestions like Heroic Launcher and Lutris. I cannot vouch for them, but there is certainly a better way than how I do it.
  
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  - UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Definitely just download heroic. Lutris can be weird - for the epic store on Linux it literally just runs the epic store exe in wine and installs/launches games through it instead of directly in the lutris client.
    
    But it is Linux and so naturally one or the other store will not always work right so it helps to have both.
    
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    okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I tried Heroic Launcher. It’s exactly what I wanted. Thanks for the suggestion
    
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    okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks. I will try it out. I’m pretty sure it was Lutris I had tried previously, and it didn’t work very well. As for Epic, I’d rather not game, than have to run it, even through Wine.
    
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