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Quoting: MohandevirI would like to see GoG integrate Proton in some form... Maybe offer proton wrapped versions of their Windows games, if at all possible. I'd be a lot more inclined to support them. Having to deal with Lutris or wine is not something that I look forward to...

I'm using regular Wine+dxvk without major problems, sometimes with esync patches too for very demanding games like TW3. I know Proton has some extra patches like scaling and such. But what other benefits does it give besides Steam integration which is pointless for GOG games?

I avoid Lutris and other high level Wine managers, since getting to control Wine directly gives you a lot more flexibility. I simply make a launch script for each game, where various variables can be adjusted, like logging level, HUD enabling and such.

Just to add to this, some games available from GOG do provide a supported game wrapped in wine (--edit: to be clear, it's the developer/publisher that provides this, _not_ GOG). It's the support that's the important part. Otherwise there's really no purpose for GOG to provide the wrapping, unless they start with whitelisted games and specific releases of wine. They're not large enough to do that, and certainly not for the marketshare that GNU/Linux currently has with them.

Not going to argue on that and I'm not blaming them for not providing the support, but for the Linux end user that just want to play games and when there is Steam that already does that and provides the heavy lifting... GoG becomes unattractive.

Sorry... I wrongly tought that GoG did provide support for wrapping/porting, in the past... It was probably Humble.

Edit: Seriously, I was just wondering if it was possible for GoG to provide proton wrapped games from CDPR's catalog... Not building a Proton version from scratch, but capitalizing on the already existing Proton development, like what's available for TW3 and, maybe, add some final touches? Isn't Proton open source?

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Quoting: ShmerlBut what other benefits does it give besides Steam integration which is pointless for GOG games

In fact that's exactly what I look forward to: transparency. In the best of case, it could take the form of a Linux GoG galaxy client with Proton integration... Or, minimally, a Proton wrapped TW3 build, for example.

Personnally, I've had enough of managing wine. I stopped playing the games that relied on that. And for new potential Linux users, wine is not a solution to sell the platform. It would be much better to have someting that's plug & play (download and play in GoG's case).

This said, it should not prevent advanced users who prefer to manage their own wine prefixes to do so.

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I would like to see GoG integrate Proton in some form... Maybe offer proton wrapped versions of their Windows games, if at all possible. I'd be a lot more inclined to support them. Having to deal with Lutris or wine is not something that I look forward to...

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In case of VR Linux... Linux is a niche and VR is a niche
In case of VR MacOS... MacOS is a niche, VR is a niche and having a MacOS VR capable hardware is probably the nichest of the niches.

It's starting to be a lot of probability layers, against MacOS. Add to this the fact that the Mac ecosystem is a walled garden and does not support Vulkan natively... Waste of time?

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Is it a timed exclusive? If so, guess I'll wait for it to show on Steam and maybe I'll think about buying it, when it will be 50% off... Even then, I have Assassin's Creed Origins and never got through my first run. Whenever I play, I have a feeling of confusion and I gave up because of that. Lack of focus? I don't know, but I don't feel invested in it... It's probably just me though.

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Quoting: MohandevirWhat could tip the balance, for me, being a Canadian/Habs hockey fan... EA Sports NHL... That's the only reason I could consider keeping an active account on Stadia and sports ips are lacking a lot on PC, in general and even more on Steam.

A fellow Canuck, eh? I lived in Montreal for just a few years when I was a kid--it would have been 1970-77 or so. The Canadiens were winning and winning, it was a great time to be a Montrealais. Now I live in Vancouver, and the Canucks lose and lose. Or sometimes they do really well but crap out at the last minute. I've kinda given up.

Yeah! Sad for the Canucks... I was playing NHL 92' or 93' (not sure) running it on a 486 DX2 66... Bure-Ronning-Courtnall and later Mogilny. Linden, Jeff Brown, Dan Ratushny (who was totally overrated in the game) Kirk McLean and Kay Whitmore... I forget many more... It's the first team I completed a season and playoffs with.

Personnally I began following the Habs after the 86' Stanley Cup... "Le Petit Viking" (Mats Naslund) being my favorite player. Actually it's not a lot more glorious, in Montreal. The team as been doing really bad, in the last years. Excluded from the playoffs for 4 years out of 5... Nothing to boast about.

I have few concrete memories from that young, but one is a Canadiens playoff game. The action's at the opposing team's goal, it's been fast and furious and everyone's down or sprawling including the goalie and the puck is dribbling away. Guy Lafleur is pretty much down on his face and the puck is actually behind him, he gets up to about his knees while spinning, I swear without even looking, and one-times it straight into the goal, all in one motion. It's like he was using the frigging Force, nobody could believe it. Been a Guy Lafleur fan ever since.

I was a bit too young for Lafleur (heard a lot about him from my older brothers), but I have a similar fond memory of Naslund scoring a goal, on a breakaway, on Pete Peters, dribbling with the puck and roofing the shot while on his knees, after slipping between Washington's two defensemen, where he was tripped. Woah! Hockey is a fast game! :)

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Quoting: MohandevirWhat could tip the balance, for me, being a Canadian/Habs hockey fan... EA Sports NHL... That's the only reason I could consider keeping an active account on Stadia and sports ips are lacking a lot on PC, in general and even more on Steam.

A fellow Canuck, eh? I lived in Montreal for just a few years when I was a kid--it would have been 1970-77 or so. The Canadiens were winning and winning, it was a great time to be a Montrealais. Now I live in Vancouver, and the Canucks lose and lose. Or sometimes they do really well but crap out at the last minute. I've kinda given up.

Yeah! Sad for the Canucks... I was playing NHL 92' or 93' (not sure) running it on a 486 DX2 66... Bure-Ronning-Courtnall and later Mogilny. Linden, Jeff Brown, Dan Ratushny (who was totally overrated in the game) Kirk McLean and Kay Whitmore... I forget many more... It's the first team I completed a season and playoffs with.

Personnally I began following the Habs after the 86' Stanley Cup... "Le Petit Viking" (Mats Naslund) being my favorite player. Actually it's not a lot more glorious, in Montreal. The team as been doing really bad, in the last years. Excluded from the playoffs for 4 years out of 5... Nothing to boast about.

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What could tip the balance, for me, being a Canadian/Habs hockey fan... EA Sports NHL... That's the only reason I could consider keeping an active account on Stadia and sports ips are lacking a lot on PC, in general and even more on Steam.

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Quoting: dubigrasu...Destiny also has a campaign, a great story to follow.

Didn't know about that. Except for the name and the fact that it's an online shooter, I didn't know much about Destiny, anyway. The fact that there is no Linux desktop build is enough for me to block out all knowledge of a game from my mind. Destiny fell into that category, up until now...

I'll give it a chance then. Thanks for your insight.

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Just a vague idea.. Could be nice if someone was able to create a Stadia dedicated app that uses Chromium in kiosk mode with all the tweaks... But I'm probably talking through my hat.

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