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Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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I’ve recently moved my whole game library over to Linux and stopped dual booting. Everything runs great on Linux, I just run it through Steam’s Proton layer.

Therein lies the problem. Even my non-Steam games I run through Steam since it’s so convenient with Proton. My experience with using straight up wine, winetricks, Lutris etc. had been much more clunky in comparison and less reliable for getting things running.

While it’s working fine for now, what do I do if I’m offline and Steam decides this is one of those days offline mode doesn’t work? What if I get banned from Steam?

Has anyone had any luck replicating their Proton setup outside of Steam? Or simply just running a Proton game outside of Steam after getting it set up using Steam?

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Yes. However, before they started supporting and prefering linux, and working on proton then getting any game working on linux was a real mess and the average person couldn't do it for most games.

Sadly most other games stores in the digital space like gog don't give a shit about linux, thus there is still no galaxy on linux, nor are their preservation efforts coming to linux for a long time.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    For the games that natively run on Linux I don’t see any difference in how they’re preserved. Haven’t encountered anything that doesn’t run on modern systems.

    With that said they could get an easy win by making a Linux version of Galaxy and borrowing Proton to run non-Linux titles.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, it's sad that they don't, gog really needs to get on it imo. Though have you tried running galaxy through proton?

    I want that too, heck even Epic could easily make their games native to linux with a single button press but they don't want to.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Time tracking and achievements work for me. You might need to update GOG reditrubutables package though Heroic should do it automatically.

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