Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: kaimanAs long as GOG remains the underdog, my support goes (mostly) to them. ...

What "underdog" are you talking about? The "underdog" with these billionaires at the top?

Quoting: denyasisSomething, I do find interesting, although a bit tangential to this topic is what we as a community are willing to sacrifice for our comfort or easiness, myself included.

I saw a few posts above lamenting how it's not easy to play a Linux game from GOG and how antiquated the concept of downloading the game off the website is. Yet, we spend a lot of effort adding PPAs, learning the CLI (talk about something actually from before 1998), ldd, protontricks, winecfg, mesa, kernel stuff, tinkering, hacking, sometimes just to get mostly functional desktops.

I wonder how many of us really want to "play on Linux" (sorry for the pun)? The more I think of it, the more I wonder if I really do. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and I like Tinkering with it in ways that I could never do with windows or Mac. I'll never go back! And haven't in over a decade.

But when I want to play a game, I find it really frustrating when I'm missing a library that I have to hunt down or a new kernel doesn't play nice with my graphics drivers or have to tweak wine/proton with my limited game time. It's like I'm frustrated because I'm reminded I'm on Linux with it's flaws and complexities. I just wanted the game to work without problems and relax!

Maybe for us the problem isn't GOG's Linux support. Maybe the problem is more that GOG reminds us we're still on Linux when we'd rather not be reminded of such.

Perhaps that's part of the allure of Steam. It's makes effort to make the Linux-ness of the system not apparent. With proton in the background, many things just work, like on Windows or Mac.

I find this an interesting contradiction and by looking at the comments, I think it's one many of us, myself included, are comfortable with having.

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CatKillerIf that's so now, then it's a recent change.

In the last year or two the API became available for Linux builds, I remember developers widely complaining about it for a long time then eventually saw a developer mention it was finally available. I imagine this was back in late 2019.

Quoting: poiuzGOG's developer documentation disagrees with you. They have released their Build Creator application for Linux so that the build is the same as on the other systems. The version numbers for Linux releases match if the developers set it correctly.

Hopefully they will eventually port over GOG Galaxy to Linux, as it's the big missing piece of the pie for Linux users

Quoting: EikeI didn't follow closely, but I'm surprised they've made the switch to default to Wayland.
I guess they wouldn't have done the same for an LTS version...?

Quoting: EikeIf we're talking about a real garden, my wife's disagreement couldn't be stronger. :)

Quoting: EikeI'm so much looking forward for my two little ones (3 yo) to become old enough for some (more) interesting games! :)

Quoting: denyasisBeen trying No Man's Sky via proton. Seems to run just fine. Aside from the main plot missions, I'm not sure how much I'm in to it. Everything seems cumbersome, from the building, to the exploring, to the foot and space combat.

I think it's made with a controller in mind, maybe I'll try it with a steam controller and see if that helps.