Genuinely, if GOG finally manages to support Linux, I will definitely return to it and start purchasing games there.
This! They say Steam isn’t technically any better, but it has so much secret sauce comparing to something like Galaxy, such as Linux port, proton, workshop, steam input among other things
With heroic, GOG games work flawlessly, you can use both proton and wine with it. Also supports Epic Games and other games from launchers.
Native GOG launcher on Linux would be nice, too though
I’ll believe it when I see a Linux version of their Galaxy client.
They should financially support Heroic Launcher and add it to their website. Why invent something that already exists and is open source?
If you open the GOG website inside Heroic, it acts as an affiliate link and the HGL team gets a revenue split. An official partnership would still be better, but it’s something.
(edit) Further details here: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/support_heroic_launcher/page1
And Heroic’s GOG affiliate link: https://heroicgameslauncher.com/donate (it uses Adtraction and might trigger some ad blockers)
He did just reacquire ownership of GOG. Porting software can take time, but this actually might happen in the near future, at least a beta version.
I’ve used gog launcher before, years and years ago (13? 14 years?) so maybe it’s better now, but it was bad. Really bad, I had to get rid of it and just use the offline installers.
Heroic on the other hand is very good.
I didn’t dislike it, but I don’t remember anything about it that would make me want to use it instead of Lutris.
Genuine question as a Linux user… Why would I want their client unless they are going to build proton/similar into it?
I’d assume that would be part of it, yeah. But that may indeed be a faulty assumption. Anyway, achievements don’t work without a client even if they’re native Linux titles.
Even if Galaxy is running under Wine:
- It’s a package manager. It handles downloading files and updates, installation and patching, and verification.
- It integrates various GOG services, like cloud storage for save files.
- It can set environment variables and pass arguments to launched games.
Besides, a Linux-native port doesn’t need to package anything. It can simply mark Wine/Proton and various compatibility solutions as dependencies. Lutris, for example, is still a great utility even if it doesn’t use the packaged Wine versions: all it really needs to do is execute some program in the correct runtime environment with the correct arguments.
You don’t need Galaxy. Use Heroic or better yet, don’t use any launchers. GOG games are DRM-free.
but I want it
the guy bought back gog and is pushing linux? Consider me even more a gog fan
Just a tip, if you guys want to containerize games such Epic Games, GoG, or other Windows apps, there is a program called Bottle which lets you do this. Can be a great added layer of security and containerization: https://usebottles.com/
However there is Lutris and Heroic for easier to use alternatives that do not offer containerized security.
Is Bottles actually containerized in any meaningful way? Last I checked it just managed wineprefixes, and Wine is not a sandbox.
It doesn’t use any seperate layers of containerization other than flatpak. So if you don’t install it via flatpak, it won’t be sandboxed.
There is also no proper instance containerization (you can enable it in Bottles’s settings, but it’s marked as experimental and I’ve been unable to run a single application with it on), so an app installed on one instance in Bottles will have access to all other instances’ files.
I could be wrong but i don’t think the wine instances themselves are containerized. Maybe he’s confusing it with flatpak sandboxing, since that is the only officially supported way of using it.
Would be nice if they also start to support development of Proton.
Too late for a number of us.
My favorite part about the commend that Windows is poor quality software is the part where Satya Nadella bragged about how as much as 30% of windows is written by AI
I don’t even think that 30% figure is true. They’re just inflating it to butter up ai investors.
Microsoft leadership is dogshit but I doubt their devs are… THAT dogshit…
No, it could be true. AI—especially with .NET—tends to generate exceptionally verbose code. Especially if you use “AI best practices” such as telling the AI to ensure 100% code coverage. Then there’s the, “let’s not use any 3rd party libraries, because we are Microsoft” angle.
.NET is already one of the most absurdly verbose languages (only other widely-used language that’s worse is Java). Copilot could easily push it over the top 🤣
All it would take would be for Microsoft to have AI rewrite some of the core libraries.
You can already play the games via heroic launcher, but I am very hyped for official support. Go GOG
Here’s hoping they put their money where their mouth is.
No offense to GoG, but right now they’re getting publicity with nice, cheap words…
The problem with Linux is that you can’t target… Linux. Because there’s no single Linux.
You don’t have to target every distribution, target a vaguely credible glibc, and of course the kernel, and you are covered.
As a distribution platform themself, they don’t have to sweat packaging N different ways, they package the way they want. Bundle all the libraries (which is not different then the way they do it in Windows, the bundle so many libraries).
They don’t get the advantage of the platform libraries and packaging, but that is how they treat Windows already because the library situation in Windows is actually really messy, despite being ostensibly a more monolithic ecosystem.
If only a huge PC gaming store had solved this problem years ago with a standard runtime environment for Linux games…
…alas it doesn’t exist, and if it did, Lemmy would keep complaining about it and instead drooling over another store that doesn’t even have an official Linux client.
Why does the Linux penguin have gynecomastia
Does tux have an official gender?
Bro’s gender is open source
Is there also a nexus mod manager alternative for Linux?
I’m still burnt about this. I’ve been a subscriber since they started Linux support. Cancelling it last week sucked but I definitely let them know why during the process. It did a great job managing cp2077 mods on Linux.
I saw a post recommending Limo not too long ago. I’ve not used it but it has FOMOD and LOOT support.
