No, you don’t need a launcher to run an exe. lol
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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoIt does what it needs to do, you open it, your installed games list is on the left, click and play.
mods_mum@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You realize there’s more DRM free games on Epic than on Steam even though there’s less games overall? If your standard for a good launcher is being able to start the game from a .exe then I’ve got bad news about Steam…
mods_mum@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
What bad news about Steam?
addie@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Presumably Kecessa is alluding to the fact that, unlike GOG, Steam games open however the developers / publishers want them to. Which is sometimes just a plain exe, sometimes it’s an exe that starts Steam so that it can use its API / DRM, sometimes it opens the publisher’s launcher, and so on. Bit irritating on Linux when you want to pass some options in to the command, and a bit irritating generally when you never want to see the launcher again, but it’s no disaster.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You can’t just launch Steam games without Steam running, Steam itself is DRM.
yamanii@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It really doesn’t, I tried finishing Industria while I had no internet and that electron piece of shit refused to open even though I set it up to work offline in the settings, thankfully the game had no DRM so I was able to finish it just by opening the exe.
Vent@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
LOL the Steam launcher is literally just a web browser. It’d be Electron if it were built today, but it was built before Electron existed.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Never had an issue with offline play, so there, my anecdote is just as valid as yours