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Can you use Proton for games you've purchased on GOG? I've been funneling more (not all) of my purchases to the DRM-free store front lately.

onli 6y ago
GOG is sadly not at all linux friendly. Not a surprise, given the owner. You can look into lutris or GameHub and get the games to work via that.
- badsectoracula 6y ago
  GOG doesn't have to be Linux friendly if we're talking about Proton since the entire purpose of Proton is to be a Windows compatibility layer. Though GOG is Linux friendly, there are tons of games with Linux versions on it. The only thing you miss on Linux with GOG is GOG Galaxy but at least personally even though i use Windows i do not care much about Galaxy and instead i just download the games from the website (which notifies you if there are any updates).
  - onli 6y ago
    GOG is owned by a company that refuses to make Linux versions of their games, after one experiment gone wrong, voicing that they are offended by received criticism over a game that plainly did not work and was not the announced native port. They have a Windows only client and put exactly zero resources into improving the state of Linux as a gaming platform. Compare that to Valve with Steam and Proton.
rocky1138 6y ago
Apparently, yes, though I've never tried it: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/k2kyjt/is_it_a_good_idea_to_use_proton_for_non_steam/gdusfeb https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/k2kyjt/is_it_...
cheald 6y ago
Yup. Check out Lutris - you don't need Steam to get the benefits of Proton (and you don't need a specifically Proton Wine build for most games).
aasasd 6y ago
Afaik GOG even release patches for some games so they work in Wine. (Which however didn't help me on an older Mac, as Wine gaming seems to be sensitive to hardware and drivers.)
ece 6y ago
The itch.io Linux client will use your existing install of Wine to launch Windows games. If GOG ever ported Galaxy to Linux, they could do the same thing. Just have the user install Wine from the distro repos.

onli 6y ago

GOG is sadly not at all linux friendly. Not a surprise, given the owner. You can look into lutris or GameHub and get the games to work via that.

badsectoracula 6y ago
GOG doesn't have to be Linux friendly if we're talking about Proton since the entire purpose of Proton is to be a Windows compatibility layer. Though GOG is Linux friendly, there are tons of games with Linux versions on it. The only thing you miss on Linux with GOG is GOG Galaxy but at least personally even though i use Windows i do not care much about Galaxy and instead i just download the games from the website (which notifies you if there are any updates).
- onli 6y ago
  GOG is owned by a company that refuses to make Linux versions of their games, after one experiment gone wrong, voicing that they are offended by received criticism over a game that plainly did not work and was not the announced native port. They have a Windows only client and put exactly zero resources into improving the state of Linux as a gaming platform. Compare that to Valve with Steam and Proton.

rocky1138 6y ago

Apparently, yes, though I've never tried it: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/k2kyjt/is_it_a_good_idea_to_use_proton_for_non_steam/gdusfeb https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/k2kyjt/is_it_...

cheald 6y ago

Yup. Check out Lutris - you don't need Steam to get the benefits of Proton (and you don't need a specifically Proton Wine build for most games).

aasasd 6y ago

Afaik GOG even release patches for some games so they work in Wine. (Which however didn't help me on an older Mac, as Wine gaming seems to be sensitive to hardware and drivers.)

ece 6y ago

The itch.io Linux client will use your existing install of Wine to launch Windows games. If GOG ever ported Galaxy to Linux, they could do the same thing. Just have the user install Wine from the distro repos.