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Steam is not the evil corporation people pretend it is.
Indeed. They’re not saints either but for my personal demands, they offer the best arguments right now. I rank funding improvements to the FOSS Linux stack higher than a DRM-free pile of shame. That may change in the future but for now I prefer Steam over GOG. CD Project is a rich company. They could make a Linux version of Galaxy, put it onto Flathub, make it behave well under Steam Deck Game Mode, and put a tiny fraction of their revenue into Linux improvements.
asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And yet somehow I still doubt we’ll see it until Linux gets a much higher marketshare.
CD Project is doing nothing to improve that market share, hence why I don’t care to spend any money on GOG.
HKayn@dormi.zone 5 weeks ago
GOG is funding the FOSS Heroic Games Launcher through an affiliate partnership: heroicgameslauncher.com/donate
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
GOG has an affiliate links program. Heroic signed up for that. GOG isn’t specifically funding Heroic. Wake me up when CD Project / GOG is hiring a developer of Mesa or something along those lines. You know, an actual part of the technology foundation that’s being used by a wide range of Linux distributions.
An office worker sitting at a desk somewhere at a Linux-running PC is benefiting from technology advancements upstreamed by Valve as part of Steam Deck performance improvements.
HKayn@dormi.zone 5 weeks ago
The end result is still part of GOG’s revenue going toward the development of Heroic.
It doesn’t meet your high standard and that’s okay. I prefer to count my blessings in this regard.