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Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago

I test games for a living and most of the time wine runs perfectly fine. You can also just use umu laucher which does everything for you.

Also I don't really get your point. Who's forcing you to use wine instead of proton?

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

I'm not aware of how things are now, but at least previously you couldn't really use Proton outside of Steam.

So I assume OC defends Steam as the only platform that can smoothly run games with Proton instead of regular Wine, which does not work as well for certain games and/or requires tedious configuration.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

You are right about proton. But the tedious configuration part is not true. Proton and ge-wine(now UMU) do the same thing, i.e applying custom patches. Wine base package is not expected to do this.