Support the base versions and the rest will solve itself.
The problem with Linux is that you can’t target… Linux. Because there’s no single Linux.
Didn’t distract Steam from succeeding here.
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.
it’s impossible for that to exist. First you have convince tle linux community toagree to one (1, uno, more than zero but less than two) runtime environment. And then to keep it backwards compatible. Because “you just need to recompile it” doesn’t work for this (or ever, really, if you want something to keep working)
steam exists
thats great!
Yes! Finally!
You can already play the games via heroic launcher, but I am very hyped for official support. Go GOG
They should just become a contributor to Heroic.
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
Why does the Linux penguin have gynecomastia
Are you assuming Tux’s gender?
Does tux have an official gender?
those are pectoral muscles, I think. I would expect pectoral muscles of flightless birds to be smaller, but not nonexistent
I’ll believe it when I see a Linux version of their Galaxy client.
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’m genuinely curious, I’ve never really used any launcher other than steam (it’s not blind loyalty, my steam lib is just bigger than I’m ever likely to play already and my gaming heyday came before launchers).
Steam on the surface of it doesn’t seem like an inordinately complex piece of software compared to say, a game or package manager etc. What is it that makes other launchers so shit?
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)
Wasn’t aware of that. Thank you for the info.
Did not know that ! Will make sure to do that next time I buy something from gog !
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.
You don’t need Galaxy. Use Heroic or better yet, don’t use any launchers. GOG games are DRM-free.
Nah, wine prefixes are good
Having a client that’s actually integrated with your account, with the ability browse, purchase, and download games, is going to be a requirement to complete with Steam
I suppose but the only reason I use gog is to download games without having to use a goddam launcher
I’m sure many people want a launcher and as long as I can keep not using it I won’t care
But not using a launcher is the reason I have a gog library
TBH the only reason I even want a launcher is that game achievements require it. AFAIK this is possible with other launchers like Heroic, but I never bothered setting it up for the GOG games I do own.
Ah well imo achievements have been a monumentally bad thing for gaming and culture so I have to say I hope they disappear anyway
Can’t say that you’re wrong …
but I want it
You’re right but the good point of the HL is the convenience and fast of use. On my Deck is the best way to have all my GOG and (freebie) Epic games with one click, dlc included.
Laughs in Heroic Launcher
Genuine question as a Linux user… Why would I want their client unless they are going to build proton/similar into it?
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.
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.
Better late than never!
Better Nate than lever.
I’m guessing that in some region of the world, ‘lever’ and ‘never’ rhyme with one another?
American here, and they rhyme. LEE-ver and NEE-ver.
NEE-ver lmao
Actually saying it out loud it kinda sounds like a BFE, Minnesota accent. Or maybe more Canadian. However my idea of Minnesota accent is based on the mom from Bobby’s World and Uncle Joey’s beaver.
I’m realizing again a few minutes later that 00s+ kids may not get either of those references. And Dave Coullier is Canadian and I think his beaver is too.
Edit again, I realize that the 00s+ kids that don’t get the references would probably be more confused by me referencing two mens beavers.
Dave Coullier (sp?) was the actor who played the character Uncle Joey (Gladstone) in Full House, where he pretended to be the uncle to three little girls and lived in their house, with their dad Bob Sagat (of “the aristocrats” and “Rolling with Sagat”), after the mom died of mysterious circumstances. As the girls got older Uncle Joey started making videos where he stuck his hand into a beaver and used it as a puppet. Part of this gag usually revolved around various jokes about “wood”. Eventually this got him to become a bit of a local celebrity, in the morning news and as a radio host.
Partly related fact, Alanis Morissette’s album (and now Broadway Musical), Jagged Little Pill, was inspired by a bad breakup with Dave Coullier
US English dialects mainly, though there may be pockets in other Anglophone places.
In the US we pronounce ‘lever’ with a soft E (as in yellow) rather than a hard E sound (as in green) like you do in the UK.
Just another one of those weird US vs UK English things, but that pronunciation makes the joke work.
You bastard, I almost forgot about that.
Wow. I was so engrossed by the narrative that after one hour of listening to it, I genuinely felt betrayed.
Ah, a shaggy dog story, those are the best.
Would be nice if they also start to support development of Proton.
Post implies Kićinski was part of the problem, but didn’t he leave CD Projekt back in 2010?
Here’s hoping they put their money where their mouth is.
Is there also a nexus mod manager alternative for Linux?
I saw a post recommending Limo not too long ago. I’ve not used it but it has FOMOD and LOOT support. The version I found is a Flatpak.
Too late for a number of us.
