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GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
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Re: GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
#12"GOG GALAXY is a long-lived product with a large and complex C++ codebase." Also known as a shitshow. Hopefully the new engineer(s) will be encouraged to at least add some tests and refactor things to stay sane. No mention of a license, though. I guess it'll stay closed source.
> I guess it'll stay closed source. It's a DRM implementation. It has to stay closed source.
This is factually incorrect. GOG famously has no DRM.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no DRM on GOG. https://www.gog.com/blog/what-exactly-is-drm-in-video-games-...
Famously so. The main method of deployment was an offline installer before they made Galaxy, and AFAIK Galaxy just downloads and runs the installer.
Not quite. You can use Galaxy to download the offline installers (or just do that through the website), but when you install a game through Galaxy, it downloads a special build which it just copies to the right location, without running a separate installer.
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#14I'm very hopeful that Linux gaming will save the open PC desktop despite big tech is coming to destroy it. Or at least keep PCs alive for another decade. Gamers are still a huge factor as hardware customers.
GOG creating a Linux launcher and Steam Box with SteamOS coming out soon should benefit PC users in general not just gamers since Microslop sees Windows like a social experiment where they can test AI on unsuspecting lusers, as an ad platform and a store front now.
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#15No. Please don't. Contribute to something like Heroic Launcher instead. Don't create something new just for GOG. Help make the existing tools better. It'll mean GOG has to do less work, and the programs people are already using will get better. Or even just sponsor Heroic so they can send more time we can working on it themselves.
They're not creating something new. They're taking their existing tool (which - for all its flaws - is still far ahead of Heroic in many ways), improving it further, and changing it to also work on Linux.
If they then go add additional features like wine integration to that tool to make it overlap more with Heroic is something we're all assuming, but not actually a given.
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#16Thankfully it seems to be not yet another Electron crap shell.
In my experience, Galaxy works no better than a web app, unfortunately. Similarly laggy and lacks the snappiness you'd normally associate with a native app.
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#17Hopefully they'll somehow support Proton and Valve devices. Trying to run older windows-only games bought on GOG with launchers like Heroic is a bit of a hit or miss, despite the Steam releases of the same games having somehow a bigger chance of working out of the box. I guess there are some weird differences between the default Proton Runtime and the proton-ge/wine-ge builds.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no DRM on GOG. https://www.gog.com/blog/what-exactly-is-drm-in-video-games-...
Last I checked, there is loads of DRM on GOG and most of the games that have it, force you to use Galaxy.
Really? What games are those? I've not encountered a single one :/
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#19Re: GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last I checked, there is loads of DRM on GOG and most of the games that have it, force you to use Galaxy.
Really? What games are those? I've not encountered a single one :/
Off the top of my head Crime Cities on launch forced me to use Galaxy to play it. I vividly remember this because the game also ran like complete crap.