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Official client and support for my platform of choice is a big plus only Steam bothers to have.
I have recently realized that I could claim tons of games from amazon with prime subscription that are claimed in GOG. And it seems GOG has some games available for Linux. There usually are couple of download links for different OSes
I purchased Outerworlds on Steam and could not get it to load.
I pirated it and run it through WINE and have no problems.
lutris
And there's heroic, but both aren't the same thing as native platform support. Steam has game listings for games that are made for Linux and Mac. You install the official steam client and click "play". No other platform has that.
There are more or less convenient ways to run the games from gog, epic, Amazon, ... on Linux. But none of them have official support or even carry any native games at all.
I don't even know how it worked, but the official GoG listing for Factorio doesn't have the linux binary on it, but when I logged into GoG via Heroic Launcher, I had the option to install that rather the Win binary though Wine/Proton.
The official GoG listing definitely mentions the Linux version. Just like every other game on GoG that has a Linux versions available.
hmm. It does.
I don't think I saw it listed in GoG's mac launcher when I last looked, but it's not worth the effort to double check that at this point.
Shit buggy client you can't customize and with integrated ram-eating webbrowser you are forced to launch to play the game. Vs. native hubs that integrate GoG, itch & co seamlessly, setup and runners and all.
Eh, Heroic isn't free of fault either; e.g. when it offered to auto-install REDmod along with CP2077 I couldn't launch the game because the REDmod it installed was completely broken. I'd say that Steam is slightly less buggy than Heroic overall, both of them being pretty damn solid. Haven't used Lutris much because, well, Steam and Heroic work well enough.
Would a leaner Steam be nice? Yeah, but reliable, lean cross-platform GUI toolkits aren't easy to come by.
Lutris was pretty janky IME. Bottles has similar issues with Lutris and some very bizarre UI decisions (like IIRC you can't delete bottle snapshots from the UI, so unless you manually go and delete them in the filesystem, creating snapshots just takes up an ever increasing amount of space). Honestly Heroic is kind of janky too and throws errors about login status half the time, but it generally works at least when it comes to launching the games. The problem is Steam almost always just works, and if it doesn't work it's pretty much always the game's fault and thus I would have problems with any launcher.
Can't play Stellaris through Heroic because of the launcher being broken.
Bypassing the launcher requires some convoluted setup, and it also removes the ease of modding.
Manually installing Stellaris through Lutris works, but Lutris isn't well maintained, and even though it's connected to GOG, doesn't update Stellaris. Says it can't find updates despite there clearly being one.
I thought more of Lutris and GameHub, forgot about Heroic. There's also Legendary and Cartridge but i don't know them.
Heroic is FOSS, though, isn't it? I thought Legendary was just Heroic, but without the GUI?
Looks like.
I use heroic to install and have the setting on to auto add them to my steam library
RAM eating we browser? What, you playing games on 256 MB?
Also, you can 100% customise Steam. There are various user created skins out there you can just plop onto Steam.
With some tool that uses a hack. Just plopping doesn't work anymore.
What, you only play games on a powerful rig? Waay more Casual games in the store than Flagships. And if your notebook has 4 GB and Steam uses 1 GB and you want to lookup a tutorial online it gets close.
Let's not normalize wasting resources just because some AAA studios are used to it.
I'm not normalising wasted resources, but 8 GB of RAM was a basic minimum standard to do anything on a computer 10 years ago... Perhaps even more.
Unless you're running a very, and I mean a VERY, cut-down operation system for none-intensive tasks, there is no way 4 GB of RAM is useful for anything.
Are you still on a dual core CPU too?
That's called "privilege".
By that fucking logic anything more thqn 512kb and dos is privilege.
Get the actual fuck out of here with that bullshit.
Even the cheapest shit boxes from dell have had more then 4 gigs of ram for over a decade.
When a 300 dollar dell ewaste netbook has it, it's the bare minimum.
No, that's called basic. We're not talking about a batmobile shaped RGB "gamer" mouse. We're talking about the default requirement for a functional system.
You're talking Windows?
I get both sides of this. I understand wanting GoG to have an official Linux client, but the Steam Client is such garbage.