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Just a high level comment on GOG, I am immensely grateful to them for existing and for sticking so strong to their principles against DRM, and for maintaining g
by freedomben 2y ago
Just a high level comment on GOG, I am immensely grateful to them for existing and for sticking so strong to their principles against DRM, and for maintaining great customer service. I have bought a lot of games from GOG and have been very happy. As an exclusively Linux user, I also appreciate how well GOG works with Lutris et al and that they aren't making life harder for those devs. I love the offline installers and I deeply appreciate their availability.
I'm not a big gamer but after watching the industry and Linux/open source in general for many, many years, I'm more convinced than ever that it's the gaming community who will save general purpose computing (that's also a nod to Valve for everything they've done for Linux as well, which has been major).
- surgical_fire 2y agoI second that. I normally buy games on Gog when I have the option.
- ykonstant 2y agoUnfortunately, it is (very) hard to make non-native games from GOG work on Linux, as someone who just doesn't "grok" Wine. This is especially painful for me, because I have supported and want to support GOG, but my obscure point and click adventure games work out of the box with Proton on Steam, which is more than I can say about GOG games. To this day, I have exactly one game that I have not managed to get working on my linux system: GRIS, bought from GOG. I tried everything suggested online, nothing worked. Since then (I still have not played GRIS), I tend to get stuff from Steam.
- PostOnce 2y agoI usually just go Lutris -> install windows game from exe -> done & working. Lutris handles the wine config for me, works 99% of the time.
- freedomben 2y agoSeconded. There are some games that still won't work, but for the most part they do.
- sydbarrett74 2y agoWhat distro? Have you spun up a SteamOS VM?
- ForOldHack 2y agoI spun up a few Linux VMs, tryin to get wineing... some would not even boot. ( ubuntu server ). Had a suggestion to try... Zoltan. Hmm... Installed perfectly. Ran dx9 installer next. Not even a hint of problems... Ran dxdiag like it was windows XP. ok... on to Dungeon Siege 1. Full on ran first try. Ran every GOG game I had. So.. if you need windows/wine compatibility... spin up a Zoltan Linux VM.
- freedomben 2y agoI've not heard of Zoltan Linux before, and am not finding it. Could you provide a link to it?
- sydbarrett74 2y agoSame. The only thing I can find is the Zoltan load-balancer at Sandia Labs.
- sydbarrett74 2y agoDo you mean Zorin?
- izacus 2y agoGoG games work just fine when installed with Heroic in Linux. Demanding that a small shop fighting DRM now also funds support for your rare operating system is some massive entitlement, especially since there's plenty of ways to make them work now.
- ensignavenger 2y agoNobody is demanding anything. They simply stated what they value as a consumer, and if GOG wants more of their business, what they need to do to earn it. This is valuable feedback to any company.