Quoting: jensI think it's quite unprofessional to call an engineer unprofessional without ever having spoken to him/her
or without ever having seen a bit of code.

Unfortunately not making multiplayer optional as a release blocker is so rampant, that it is unprofessional, because developers didn't do due research on this topic.

GOG are very explicit, that Galaxy is indeed not a requirement. But it's developers' responsibility to make sure they don't code it in as mandatory. GOG aren't forcing anyone to do it. And multiple developers managed to make Linux releases without Galaxy just fine, even though they are using Galaxy in their Windows versions.

Sure, GOG can be blamed for not releasing Galaxy, and in result causing this mess. But developers can be blamed all the same for not releasing without it. According to GOG Linux support, they offer all resources and help to explain to developers how to handle that. It's up to them whether to actually do it.

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Quoting: NarvarthThese people just forget that DRM-free games on GOG are also DRM-free on Steam...

Nope. You forget that nothing is DRM-free on Steam.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887I cannot stress enough saying how bad it is to rely only on services such as Galaxy or Steam for MP. Old games from over 15 years ago had LAN and they can still be played today. It is unfortunate that many devs are forgetting this and moving backward instead of forward.

That, and even if they are too burdened by implementing their own network code, it's no excuse not to make MP optional. No Galaxy? Let those who don't care about MP buy the game for SP mode, and make sure your game builds without Galaxy SDK present.

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Developers should learn how to make this optional because it's not a multiplayer only game. Seriously, it's quite unprofessional. Added another Galaxy victim to the list [External Link].

That's the real problem with Galaxy, and not the lack of the client.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThere is no real need to install standalone Steam in Lutris, as it's considered a "runner". Lutris will actually install Steam only once (the first time you install the runner) and then every other game using Steam will get installed into it, so all your games are in the same context.

The problem with doing that, is that many games require different tweaks to Wine prefix, and it can get seriously messy at some point, that the only option is to blow away the whole prefix. If you install everything in the single prefix, it's quite disruptive.

That's why it's way more flexible to install each game in its own Wine prefix. You can easily remove the whole prefix and reinstall one game from scratch without affecting anything else. It works perfectly for DRM-free GOG games, but for Steam users it's a bloat problem, since they would need to duplicate Steam client in each.

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Quoting: gnaniniI'm really impressed with this guy and with wine development! I started to use wine gaming nine (with gallium nine), the performance is nice and smooth. I will start to buy more dx9 games to play, but I think they need to do a gallium-nine-winehq to ensure some control on tittles we must avoid!

Gallium Nine is a pretty much dead end idea for Wine, becasue developers don't want to support hardware specific paths. Using ARB_buffer_storage for performance is a way better approach, which hopefully can get upstreamed.

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Quoting: liamdaweFor those curious about my issues with Lutris:

- GOG Galaxy installs using only one of the three install options they have on their site, the others complain about no 64bit Wine. Weird, since one of them works. Once installed, it repeatedly crashes while downloading games making it a little useless (but that specifically is likely a Wine issue, not Lutris).

You'll have better experience with classic GOG installers. Don't use Galaxy.

Or simply use lgogdownloader. It only uses classic installers.

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I hope it will get properly upstreamed once it's in good shape.

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I've seen it several times already. And it's something that should be caught by proper unit testing.

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Quoting: ArdjeSo you expect us linux users to wait about 10 years before there is even a proper idea how to incorporate a product into the linux kernel?
Because that's how long it took before amdgpu came to be, or even longer...

When the driver is a mess, let it take as long as it should to get upstreamed. amdgu is whole different level of complexity than the Steam controller though. So the later should not take as long.

And experimenting with drivers is not detrimental to keeping them open. So there is simply no excuse.

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