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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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[–] 5 points 2 days ago* (5 children)

Proton is not part of Steam. It's a package that you can run games on from anywhere. Yes, this will need WINE and likely Proton, and it's easy enough to have the launcher use those, as Heroic and Lutris already do (or as you can do from the terminal).

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

    I know it's theoretically easy, but that doesn't mean GoG will do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It seems like a particularly stupid design choice to make a launcher for Linux and yet refuse to do something that both simple and required for most Windows game to work in Linux which is launching them with Wine AND DXVK, same as Lutris and Heroic do.

    You're basically just insisting that they could be purposefully incompetent.

    Sure, technically, they could, but then what would be the point of spending money on a GOG Galaxy Linux version given that only a small fraction of the games in their store have a native Linux version?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    It took them over a decade to implement the most requested feature which could have probably accomplished in one afternoon as GoG Galaxy is an electron app, and they didn't, I'm not holding my breath expecting them to be competent.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    Sure, and were also assuming it works at all. What's your point? It'll almost certainly have something like this or there's no point in them making it at all.

    Regardless, it still doesn't even rely on them because, like I said, you can do it yourself from the terminal. You could just write a simple script to launch the game and they'd run. Proton exists. It isn't a Valve thing that they have to remake.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    It'll almost certainly have something like this or there's no point in them making it at all.

    GoG has native games for Linux, at the time the feature was initially requested to GoG Proton wasn't a thing and we had to do janky stuff to run windows games on Steam. I'm not saying GoG won't do it, I'm saying people are assuming it will just because everyone else does, which might not be true. Hopefully it is, but it's just an assumption.

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