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[–] 17 points 2 days ago (12 children)

I wonder how they're gonna handle windows games. Whether they'll use system's version of wine or ship something of their own like Proton on Steam. Very curious.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Why wouldn't they just use Proton.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    That's what I'm interested in. Whether they intend to just use whatever is available (which is absolutely ok) or they're going to ship their own solution fine tuned however they want and need it (which would be obviously fork of wine/proton).

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  • [–] 16 points 2 days ago* (4 children)

    Isn't proton just wine with a few other things like DXVK? And all open source, so they could just fork or even copy it directly. Proton is based on a fork of wine too.

    So far I use Lutris for GOG games. Does galaxy still work offline and not act as DRM in any way? So anything already installed could be launched with it?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Galaxy is just for automating installation and updates and implementing cloud saves and achievements. The installation is identical to one made with standalone installer and can be launched from the executable without running Galaxy client. Already installed games can be imported to Galaxy library.

    Proton is kinda tied to Steam, but UMU already replicates those dependencies so you can run it outside Steam client, so GOG could do something similar and I doubt Valve would object cooperation if GOG wants to participate developing Proton.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    Yes, proton is basically "wine deluxe" as I understand it, so they might use it just as it. I just wondered whether they'll use available solution or plan to use some modification of their own.

    I guess we'll see, hopefully, soon.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    They'll like use the ULWGL–Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher for that. It's basically all the tech Bottles, Steam, Lutris, etc worked on thrown into one project to prevent duplication and share prefix stuff between launchers.

    Edit: Whoops, I guess the project was renamed to UMU.

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