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GOG officially announces GOG Galaxy for Linux (lemmy.ml)
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Overview page: https://www.gog.com/en/anniversary

Direct sign up for Galaxy Linux beta: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/t/YEF5EV/

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[–] 93 points 5 days ago (9 children)

i don't understand how a linux user can have the mindset of "well there is already X, why new alternative". having alternatives is like, our whole thing

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Reason is simple. They could have done that years ago, instead they pushed against it and now Steam has the best and tried Linux support.

    Yes, alternatives are good,but be better as a company.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    I don't fully understand the why. No GOG sells games without DRM, that's it's whole selling point. Why have a launcher (other than maybe for installing)?

    Anyway. Speaking of GOG I'm more excited for Physical games

    Although I don't think I would actually utilize it.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    It's the reason why Linux is the way it is. If we just succumbed to whatever Linus Torvalds wanted to do, Linux as we know it would fall completely to AI. But, that isn't the reality we have to face, we have plenty of Linux variations out there so that we do not have to just deal with one sole Linux distro.

    When the Ubuntu developers disappointed the fanbase, we had options. Lately when Linus Torvalds announced AI, we have options.

    That's the beauty of it all.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (2 children)

    Not true. All Linux distros use the Linux kernel, which is maintained primarily by Linus.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    I'm pretty sure there are forks. IIRC there were several forks when the AI stuff was announced. Yes, it's still a Linux kernel, but there is more than one Linux kernel. There is a mainline one, but there are other options too. There are also other kernels entirely too.

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