It's a good place to meet other gamers that game on linux.

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Hopefully some of them move to linux on desktop.

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cool, it's native too.

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Quoting: sourpuz

Quoting: Install

Quoting: 14Too many Windows games. GOG doesn't help make playing Windows games on Linux easy in any way.

Just scroll down and use the filter for linux games only.

Problem is, GOG's Linux installers are obsolete and haven't been updated in years, as GOG has officially stopped supporting Linux. Lots of the installers don't work. I mostly use the Windows versions via Lutris/Wine.

The installers work fine for me. Not every game is perfect but you can say the same for windows since I have an additional windows machine and several installers dont work for it either without adding some tweaks of your own. gog has not officially stopped supporting linux, games are still releasing and you can check the upcoming sections which shows you what linux games are upcoming. I don't like or use wine since I prefer native versions only, I find it to be ghetto.

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Quoting: 14Too many Windows games. GOG doesn't help make playing Windows games on Linux easy in any way.

Just scroll down and use the filter for linux games only.

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If devs aren't going to support a linux version then don't release it in the first place imo. Good thing this only applies to online heavy games, this won't be an issue with single player games. This is why I choose carefully who I support, I only buy native versions of linux games, otherwise they aren't getting my money.

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Nice!

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I prefer buying on gog over steam since you own the games. Steam is drm and you dont own those games, you rent them. I feel gog fits the same philosophy as linux in terms of freedom. gog does support linux, there might be cases where there isnt a version but most of the time they sell them.

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Quoting: elmapulwhy would microsoft improve directX for windows, if they already have an monopoly on OS for desktops, and dont make money directly from games being sold for windows?

DirectX is one of the moats protecting Windows' market share and Microsoft's control of the desktop. If game developers switch to OpenGL (or Vulkan now) that moat is breached.

why would microsoft improve DirectX for Xbox, when they DO make money on each game sold for it?

DirectX is the whole point of the Xbox. It's literally a "DirectX box." Consoles doing general computer things as well as games would mean that consumers might do all their gaming and computing on something that doesn't come from Microsoft. This is unacceptable to Microsoft, so they poured loads of money into making a console that used Windows and DirectX so that game developers and consumers couldn't ignore them. And now that they have that additional moat, they can use that to get people to use the Windows Store - Game Pass.

Quoting: elmapulthe question is:
it will run xbox and it subset of games? or it will run windows and all it games?
if it runs windows, valve still would make money since steam is king there, not to mention they would incentive their own audience to use other stores by doing that.

on the other hand if they try to lock it to xbox games, then steamOS will still have more games (not that the ammount is more important than the names involved)

To protect their monopoly it would run almost all games from all generations of Xbox (Xbox games run in a VM already, so the hardware is abstracted), and all games from the Windows Store, and have access to Game Pass. Then they'd flood the market, since they've got more than enough money to absorb loses from hardware costs (exactly as they've done with Xbox). Control over game developers is re-established.

Is open gl still big an important? im new to linux.

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Quoting: NezchanMeh. I'm Gen X and there doesn't seem to be much of anything that appeals to me.

A lot of that older stuff just isn't my thing in the first place; I'm much more into the modern indie scene. They can keep their collection of Duke Nukem variants.

They dont only sell old games, they also sell modern indie games.

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