>GOG Plans First-Party Linux SupportIt's happening!https://www.techpowerup.com/345716/gog-plans-first-party-linux-support
>>108011700Year of the Linux desktop, baby ducks on suicide watch
>>108011793Hey, welcome back schizo, thanks for the bump. We know you are a newjeetfag, real /g/tards use loonix.
>>108011700....why? heroic is good enough. literally the only thing GoG has over Steam is no need for a botnet client.
>>108011890GOG games work fine under Linux with HeroicGameLauncher.
>>108011904You own games on GOG. I have all offline installers downloaded.
>>108011700So this means we finally get achievements on Linux? Nice.
>>108011904You can download older versions of games with the official GOG client apparently.
>>108012054You can download all versions including the latest one.
>>1080117932024 called
>>108011934Same. Except they were never mine to begin with, but same.
>>108012430You should support DRM-free platforms with your money, mate.
>>108011700Is Proton proprietary? Can GOG use it?
>>108011700GOOD! I'm tired of jumping through hoops to get my stuff half-assedly working through Lutris or Heroic.
>>108012557it isn't proprietary. I wish wine and proton would merge already though. I'm sick of 50 different wine flavor forks bullshit honestly. NTSYNC should fix a lot of the janky kernel/userspace implementation issues with WinXP&7 tier sync objects as well.
>>108012644Oh, I thought Steam owned Proton. Does this mean GOG can put it into the Galaxy launcher?
>>108012681Yes! Heroic does this for windows only GOG games.
>>108012681Steam literally made Proton, yes. It's their compatibility layer for Windows games. Also apparently it is based off a version of Wine
>>108012357I agree that apple mogs winjeet, but we are talking about Free (as in freedom) and open source operating systems, not some weird black box, with less gayming compatibility than a Fagbook. Non free software is spyware and I don't want spyware on a personal computer. I don't mind mac for work, they are fine pieces of hard and software.
>>108012742It's literally a fork of WINE with valve patches.
>>108012681It's open source so they don't really own it, they just maintain it as a branch of Wine. Some of the fixes they implement make it to upstream Wine. So Valve gets to build something off of an existing codebase and everyone gets to benefit because FOSS is great like that.
>>108011934>You own games on GOG.try selling them
>>108011700Linux is still shit though
>>108013109Better than Windows.
>>108011700I bought a bunch of games on gog because they were really cheap and it's cool. But no matter how bloated steam is, it has some benefits. Like workshop for example
>>108013166I don't know what this "workshop" is. What's the usecase?
>>108013124>the only thing worse than wangblows is troonixtroonix is literally like winshit but literally nothing ever works
>>108013335>reading is scary
gog :DDD
>>108013335Lol, lmao even.
>>108013193Integrated mods collection. Not every game supports it but those who do usually have a large community of modders.An example would be "Euro Truck Simulator" or "Beam NG"
>>108013392She cute
>>108013809Why the fuck would I need a third party to install mods for me? Also, GOG recently added that.
>>108011700Does that mean we get finally get The Witcher 3 on Linux?
>>108011700What does that change. We already have Lutris, Steam and Heroic Games Launcher if you want Lutris, but worse.
>>108013906Heroic is better than Lutris.
>>108011700Why? Heroic already exists, and it handles GOG games just fine.
>>108013987To be fair, my last experience with Heroic was about 2 years ago when it was absolute fucking trash.
>>108011700>Actually investing into an emerging market trend and not sitting on your ass just to dismiss it and keep whining about how dominant Steam is.Impressive, better than some other digital stores at least.
>>108013987Heroic looks better but Lutris exposes way more options. As far as I know you can't even pick a monitor to output to in Heroic.
>>108012095Can you? I use Heroic, and games that update often only let me pick the past five versions. Dying Light, for example, has had a new version like every other month for eleven years, and Heroic only lets me pick from 1.52.0.
>>108014646nigga, you download it via a web browser and your gog profile
>>108011700if that's gonna happen... oh my myi like steam but i like owning my games even more
>>108013828Looks too Slavic for me.
>>108011700>Steam Machine and Steam Frame>GOG coming to Linux>Opera GX coming to Linux>GeForce Now official native Linux beta just dropped>Canva considering porting Affinity to Linux>major Photoshop fix for WineI think Tux is about to eat good this year.
>people build something nice, free as in freedom and open source>people will only accept it if it has DRM and other other corporate malwaresAt this point, I think people just like shit and deserve shit.
>>108015474GOG games are DRM-free.
>>108015510Good point, but valve, epic and the like...
>>108015558Steam (and maybe epic, I don't know or care) are not inherently DRM, they're just a storefront. You can buy DRM-free games from steam, CD Projekt's own games for example, that don't ever need Steam to be opened again once you download it. The inclusion of Steamworks DRM is completely up to the publisher of the game.
>>108016185Only GOG allows you to download actual offline installers.
>>108016214Virtually no GOG games actually require installers though, after they've been installed you can just copy or zip them up and unpack on another PC and they'll work. Same goes for DRM-free games on steam.
>>108015402Pity Canva made Affinity a piece of shit
>>108011700>It took them a decade + 5 (15) years to do what Volvo was doing for that long.SASUGA, GOG-CHAN!Also only took being bought by the former owner of CD Project to do this. But yay, I guess? Easier pirating their shit on 'Eck and 'Inux now.
>>108011700nice /v/ thread
>>108011890I've seen a nigger like 2 times in my live. I'm almost 30 years old at this point. They are rarer than shiny pokemons here. Cope
>>108012770Apple mogs linjeets even harder.
>>1080128685 rupees have been deposited into your account.
>>108011700they've been promising this for like 15 years
>>108011700more non-free programs on linux?
>>108011904Heroic is electronslop. It unintuitive garbage.
>>108018309They have an opinionated new/old owner now.
You know I'm right
>>108011934Best offline installer for Linux? I use Ubuntu.
>>108018424Gog is actually good for old games. Strange, how the name still lives on in spirit.
>>108016185>akshually, steam ISN'T a DRM
>>108016456Ok, besides rearranging some menus and making AI garbage paid, how did they make it a piece of shit?I've been using V3 since release and it still covers all of my needs like the previous one did. It has a crappy tracing tool now, but hey, in some cases now I don't have to open inkscape anymore for something as simple as that. Affinity always had its really rough edges that made you question why the fuck they didn't add X or Y feature to it. It is very fucking welcome on Linux considering what's available, let me tell you.
>>108011890>While those shitskin infested Polaks are planning itone of the whitest countries on this fucking planet lolI envy what they have
>>108011700I wrote gog off when cyberpunk launched. I was wrong, good on them.
>>108020707Worked fine on my PC.
>>108015402Only took Windows DESIGNATED shitting itself for this to happen.
>>108020027He's correct. There is a Steam DRM that is available, but you are not forced to use it when you sell your game on Steam. You can use no DRM, some third party solution or Steam DRM.
>>108022638He's not correct. Some games on steam don't have copy protection, I agree, but all steam games have a DRM, which is steam, which is mandatory to install and update your games (who knows what else they do).
>>108011700>Generic, grotesquely suboptimal dosbox.conf for normies>Here's your million $
>>108022638Oh, and steamworks isn't per say a DRM, it is a set of tools for devs (like access to their modding catalog, server browser, etc...).
>>108022777if you can just copy the game and run it elsewhere, it's not having DRM.
>>108022842>if you can just copy the gameWhere do I copy it from?
>>108022855Bro, that you first need to have what you want to copy from isn't DRM, that's common sense.DRM is about preventing you to copy is despite having it.
>>108022777Oh I see, you just don't have the faintest idea what drm is or what it does. You're saying the equivalent "the gog website is drm, because without it you couldn't update or download your games". Not very clever.
>>108011700Do I need to buy a separate game on Steam to access its Steam Workshop? If so, that seems pointless.
>>108022892>DRM is copy protectionAbsolutely not, it's litterally "digital rights managements", which is what steam does through account tied content access. If you tell me steam isn't a DRM, then epic, ubisoft stuff, EA's downloader isn't DRM neither. If I buy a key for a game, I don't enter it in the game, I enter it in steam, or epic, or whatever, because they're... managing your digital rights.Whatever, at least DRM still has stigma to the point you'll just deny your favorite drm is a DRM. It's all that matters to me, that shame.
>>108013809>workshopOne annoying thing that I've experienced is that some companies (can't remember if it's the developer or publisher) will restrict workshop downloads, unless you own the game on Steam.I separately have a Steam account, but there have been times where I own a copy of the game (usually through GOG), but there's no way to download a particular mod.Rather 'no straightforward way'--it's kind of a pain to find someone I know who does own the game on Steam, and ask, "Can you download this mod for me, and send me the files?" And then a month later, when it updates...Some modders will publish their stuff to GitHub, NexusMods, etc, but others don't bother.Before I ever had a Steam account, I used to use a tool called "steamcmd" to anonymously download workshop files that I wanted. But that method doesn't work, when the restriction above is in place.
>>108023174It baffles me modders would put their mods behind a DRM.
>>108023065Nobody ever said any of those are DRM. Except you, obviously.
>>108013892>we get finally get The Witcher 3 on Linux?When I started playing games again, that was the first one I tried.It worked fine on Linux, back in 2020. That was with Wine, not Proton. I was quite anti-Steam at the time. The situation has only improved....Unless you mean a "Linux-native build"?My experience with those is that, over time, they become unusable.For instance, if you go grab the Linux-native Witcher 2 build, I bet you can't get it to run. But using wine/proton, the Windows build just works.
>>108023182I've seen mods requiring the very latests versions only available on steam. If the developers don't update all platform in the same interval you can also get fucked
>>108016271I used to download the installers via web browser, and that works fine for old games, relatively small file size. But for modern games, I didn't want to download twenty 4GB files.So I started using a tool called "lgogdownloader". A command line frontend that uses the Galaxy API. After you connect it to your GOG account, it can grab all of the installers.For a recent release, that gets lots of small updates, the offline installers that GOG publishes will lag behind. It takes a couple of days/weeks for them to release a separate patch.So after reading the docs, I started using a different option, that effectively grabs an "unpacked install". Just a directory with all of the files, similar to the thing you would copy/zip.And it's great.There's a bit of nostalgia, doing it the old way. Listen to the sounds of my cpu cooler getting stressed, come back in a few minutes and check on the installer's progress bar, etc.But directly downloading the installed files (this is what the Galaxy client does), sort of 'cutting out the middleman', is definitely the way to go.
Can I ask you linux gamerbros a question?What the fuck is a faggus launcher?Why do you need so many damn launchers? Why not just one? Just the one. Just fucking use steam and add as non-steam? Shouldn't that just work? I mean fuck me I have this plugin called Unifideck on my deck and it plays gog games straight away (hell it even warns against tinkering). So why? Why not just have the launcher that replaces them all?
>>108023406>Why not just one? Just the one.Or don't use one at all, which is what I typically do.>use steam and add as non-steamThat works, if it's the option you want to choose.Or pick some different one, if the features, UI, etc make sense to you."You get to decide" is kind of the point with a lot of Linux stuff.
>>108012644>I wish wine and proton would merge already though. I'm sick of 50 different wine flavor forks Wine and proton are two different things, it's an insult to wine to beg it to run games when it is the reason proton exists. Wine is for many other programs I hope you find out, you can use it for an enormous amount of things other than games and 3D programs
>>108023406>Just fucking use steam and add as non-steam? Shouldn't that just work?you can do that if you want. every game with linux native branches I have to remember to set the force compatibility to proton because the compatible version will probably run better, or especially having to mod something
>>108023040>If so, that seems pointless.Congratulations. You've found out why nobody sane buys from GOG "DRM-free" or not.
>>108023040>need to buy a separate game on Steam to access its Steam Workshop?That situation does exist, check my previous comment >>108023174There's an option for the game's developer, buried in menus, that defaults to "off". Pic related.So it's a game-by-game basis, whether or not you're able to download workshop items without owning the game through Steam.>>108023546Don't pretend that "access to Steam Workshop" is a make or break feature.Plenty of games don't have Workshop pages at all, including some that are very popular targets for modding. Cyberpunk 2077 & Skyrim, are two off the top of my head, but there's no shortage of examples.
took em fuckin long enough jesus
