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Gog is great and I've been a member since probably 2010. The one feature that would encourage me to buy more of their games is a "install into steam" script wi

by pipes 10mo ago

Gog is great and I've been a member since probably 2010. The one feature that would encourage me to buy more of their games is a "install into steam" script with each game. It's a massive pain in the ass making my gog games run on my steam deck. I keep meaning to write a script to do this to ease that pain.

citrusybread 10mo ago
Have you tried using Heroic? I don't use it on the Steam Deck so maybe I'm missing something, but I use it on desktop linux all the time and it's been seamless for me.
- jpetso 10mo ago
  The Steam client has to restart in order to pick up the newly added external titles, at least last time I tried. In gaming mode, restarting the client means restarting the system, which is ever so slightly annoying. Apart from that though, it works just fine on the Steam Deck.
  - citrusybread 10mo ago
    I just tried it today actually - I just had to exit the steam deck UI mode, enter desktop mode, add them with Heroic, and then restart the deck UI mode from the desktop shortcut and it worked!
- pipes 10mo ago
  Lutris and when that fails, manually doing it myself. One big annoyance is that to browse community controller configs you need to change the name of the game to it's steam numeric id (which can be found in the URL for the equivalent game on steam website). I'll try heroic. I try to buy gog versions but sometimes I just think "when will I get time to configure this, I could just buy the steam version"
  - citrusybread 10mo ago
    That's interesting, I'll keep it mind. I also got sucked into steam defaultism, because they do so many things right.
    - pipes 10mo ago
      Though, I think gog does better versions of some old games. For example I think their doom 3 includes the original not just there bfg edition. They really try to give you a patched "should just work on a windows pc" version.

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Gog is great and I've been a member since probably 2010. The one feature that would encourage me to buy more of their games is a "install into steam" script wi

by pipes 10mo ago

citrusybread 10mo ago
Have you tried using Heroic? I don't use it on the Steam Deck so maybe I'm missing something, but I use it on desktop linux all the time and it's been seamless for me.
- jpetso 10mo ago
  The Steam client has to restart in order to pick up the newly added external titles, at least last time I tried. In gaming mode, restarting the client means restarting the system, which is ever so slightly annoying. Apart from that though, it works just fine on the Steam Deck.
  - citrusybread 10mo ago
    I just tried it today actually - I just had to exit the steam deck UI mode, enter desktop mode, add them with Heroic, and then restart the deck UI mode from the desktop shortcut and it worked!
- pipes 10mo ago
  Lutris and when that fails, manually doing it myself. One big annoyance is that to browse community controller configs you need to change the name of the game to it's steam numeric id (which can be found in the URL for the equivalent game on steam website). I'll try heroic. I try to buy gog versions but sometimes I just think "when will I get time to configure this, I could just buy the steam version"
  - citrusybread 10mo ago
    That's interesting, I'll keep it mind. I also got sucked into steam defaultism, because they do so many things right.
    - pipes 10mo ago
      Though, I think gog does better versions of some old games. For example I think their doom 3 includes the original not just there bfg edition. They really try to give you a patched "should just work on a windows pc" version.