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[–] 33 points 1 year ago (16 children)

i'd buy way more games if they had a Linux version of their Galaxy client. I already spend way too much on Steam

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    They used to support Linux as a platform, but they ended up dropping it because the userbase was too small to warrant the additional development efforts. I think it was around 2015 they added Linux versions of their games, only to remove them in 2018ish?

    Either way, it meant switching to Steam for me. I understand that it was a business decision, but it was a damn shame...

    (All of this was pre-Galaxy.)

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Check out Heroic Games Launcher maybe. I think it's the unofficial GOG for Linux

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Yeah, I can confirm Heroic works well on Linux. Just finished up my GOG-purchased Silksong play-through this week. :)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I was halfway through silksong before I realized cloud saves and achievements only work with the Windows version. Fortunately, copying the Linux save folder on top of the Windows one kept my progress, but I'm still missing most of my achievements. Guess I'll just have to play again from the beginning.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I thought heroic supported cloud saves?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Heroic will let you install the native Linux game (if available), or the Windows version that runs on Wine/Proton. But like moody said, GOG will only allow cloud saves for the Windows versions of your games.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Heroic supports GOG achivements through Comet, which is enabled by default in the latest versions.

    However there is no overlay so you need to check the GOG achievements webpage to see what you achieved/unlocked.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    While Heroic is nice, it would be even better if GOG themselves put some effort into supporting Linux, as they do sell Linux native games.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It'd be enough even if they just contributed to Heroic, the way Valve started contributing to wine/proton.

    It's mind boggling to me that they remained completely silent on linux, even as SteamDeck took off.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    For one it's nice to have a way of managing/installing the sofware.

    Try installing an older Linux native game from GOG, it's a huge pain in the ass: ancient dependencies you have to install by hand, cryptic error messages, debugging controller support for every game separately. And good luck uninstalling.

    Compare to Steam: you click "install", wait a bit, click "play" and you are playing. uninstalling is also trivially easy

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