Linux Gaming

Of course you can

Idk, some user here who otherwise is supremely anti-corporation, anti-DRM and anti-closed source said they absolutely can NOT use GOG over Steam because there's no native Linux client. Apparently that's a complete showstopper for some people, despite the existence of Heroic and many other tools you could use. "The games just don't work"

Heroic is ultimately outside of GOG's sphere of influence. If you decide to officially lean on them and they decide to drop GOG or Herioc development entirely they'd have to scramble for a replacement.

And honestly I only use Herioc to interface with GOG, i'd probably prefer use the official application if there was any.

Heroic exists independently of GOG, which limits them to the decision of an independent developer. Essentially, they are at the mercy of Heroic dev to support GOG.

Porting their own application ensures they maintain control over software stack and also get improved security.

Activities. My "friends" can’t see what and how much I play. My only entry there is from testing Amazon Luna.

This new effort started when the new CEO bought back a majority of shares. He was one of the original owners. Back then their Linux efforts were also better.

Oh, come on. They are right about the DRM, I can give them the benefit of the doubt.

It's already year of linux on everything else from mobile devices, VR (meta quest) to servers.

I don't think its year of the linux desktop, but, as people try to become more independent, there will certainly be a push. Countries like China in the government already apparently use Linux

And, there is hopefully a bigger push for SteamOS based gaming handheld consoles. GOG integration with SteamOS would be awesome too

You know why we say it every year? Because every year is the year of the Linux desktop

Games are one thing that keeps people stuck on Windows so more games on Linux, either native or through API emulation, does potentially allow more people to consider the switch.

I think it also has integrations for some other things too, so you can use it to launch all your games from various launchers instead of remembering which games are on which launchers and opening each one to search for the game you want to play. It centralized your games into one spot which can be nice.

Its a bit better than that, its a bit closer to an all in one launcher ~~/downloader~~ client for all your games from (steam)/gog/epic/etc

But letting anyone in is also a security risk. Steam has the capacity to check everything, and still some virus and other pass on.

I believe thatbis the point of GOG Galaxy, otherwise you can just use the native installers.

Hopefully they add Wine/Proton integration like Steam and Heroic have.

Only occasionally and they will say 'sorry'.

And completely redundant because there are already FOSS game managers that support GoG they could contribute to?