i’d buy way more games if they had a Linux version of their Galaxy client. I already spend way too much on Steam
Check out Heroic Games Launcher maybe. I think it’s the unofficial GOG for Linux
While Heroic is nice, it would be even better if GOG themselves put some effort into supporting Linux, as they do sell Linux native games.
Which costs money to do.
It’d be enough even if they just contributed to Heroic, the way Valve started contributing to wine/proton.
It’s mind boggling to me that they remained completely silent on linux, even as SteamDeck took off.
They used to support Linux as a platform, but they ended up dropping it because the userbase was too small to warrant the additional development efforts. I think it was around 2015 they added Linux versions of their games, only to remove them in 2018ish?
Either way, it meant switching to Steam for me. I understand that it was a business decision, but it was a damn shame…
(All of this was pre-Galaxy.)
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For one it’s nice to have a way of managing/installing the sofware.
Try installing an older Linux native game from GOG, it’s a huge pain in the ass: ancient dependencies you have to install by hand, cryptic error messages, debugging controller support for every game separately. And good luck uninstalling.
Compare to Steam: you click “install”, wait a bit, click “play” and you are playing. uninstalling is also trivially easy
I use Lutris, works pretty well for me.
Not familiar with their business model beyond the DRM thing. What % are they taking from publishers/developers who buy from them?
I’ve heard it’s 30%, or whatever the same as Steam is
