Do you have a link to someone talking about the Taiwan situation?

Hei give this a try, it helped me a lot for a gog game at least (Tunic). https://github.com/moraroy/NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck

They’ve always distributed Linux versions for games that have them an those are the ones which pop-up by default on the game’s downloads pages if you’re browsing their site from Linux, so it’s not as if they don’t support Linux.

What you mean is that they haven’t created their own Linux distro and Wine fork like Steam.

Meanwhile because they ship DRM-free games with offline installers they’re actually closer to the spirit of Linux than Steam: you have full control over how you run a game you got for them (for example, I try to run all games sandboxed with networking restricted to localhost only plus a number of other safety limitations, which I can do with GOG games launched from Lutris but not with Steam games).

As I see it Steam does a lot of handholding (both in Windows and Linux) in exchange for them retaining a ton of control over your gaming, whilst GOG just gives you maximum freedom but with zero handholding.

Maybe because I’ve been a Techie and Gamer since the 90s, personally I vastly prefer the later approach but I can see how people who grew up in the hand-holding era of computing would value convenience over control.

Try running the GOG games from Lutris instead of Steam (I also heard good things about Heroic Launcher, but haven’t tried it).

Obviously for GOG games Steam isn’t going to have the scripts that properly configure Proton and if you try and run the games directly with Wine yourself you get none of the modern conveniences in things like Steam, Lutris or the Heroic Launcher and have to actually learn the “old ways” of going through the log when game fails to launch, figure out the missing DLLs and which packages they’re in and adding those yourself to the Wine instance you’re using for that game with Winetricks.

GOG’s support for Linux starts and ends at distributing the Linux installers for games which have Linux versions, exposing a REST API to their service that lets any app integrate with it - which is how Lutris and Heroic Launcher can download the game installers directly from GOG - and making sure the games are DRM free (which in my experience makes it more likely that GOG games work under Linux than Steam games: I’ve had to actually download and run pirated versions of Steam games for them to actually work in Linux but never had that problem with GOG games).

Steam on the other hand will do pretty much everything for you, directly from their all-in-one storefront+launcher app, exposing very little of the inner workings to you, but the tradeoff is that you’re tied to their ecosystem and don’t tend to learn how to do things yourself.

They literally say they support Ubuntu… https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212456929-General-questions?product=gog

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It has a lot to do with how it would have affected Cyberpunk 2077’s release in China and it’s huge gaming market. I mean, just look at the downvote count in my previous comment, there are a lot of butthurt factory trolls downvoting it from the red stained Lemmy “Marxist Leninist” foundries. China cannot accept any political commentary, specially coming from Taiwan, and the devs got punished for it. The devs capitulated, but China did not care, so why bother?

Only their Galaxy client, because any games with native linux support has the proper installer files. They don’t go out of their way to ensure windows only games also work on linux

High Tail Hall?

Slaanesh is proud

The Linux version of X4 took over a week longer to update on GoG than Steam for the 7.00 update.

Yeah, its a little better than zero but it isn’t great.

I clicked on the bundle because I was curious to see it and now I have a bunch of porn games I guess. I don’t have an issue with porn games but I don’t play porn games so now I have a bunch of trash cluttering my library.

I was able to kinda hide them but they are still there.

Not a problem exclusive to linux. There are many games that don’t receive an update on gog after some time, or lack the linux build, or several other things.

I’ll give that a try, thanks

Huniepop is genuinely one of the better match 4 type games out there and has a bathing suit only mode if you are feeling adventurous.

Awesome! Is there a link to the GOG client for Ubuntu!?

Yeah yeah. Just saying it’s definitely more than the “zero support” you credit them for.

How is it different? In what way are they “supporting” Ubuntu?

None of them are even remotely close to the sort of games I enjoy, the porn part isn’t the issue I just don’t care for “dating” sims or puzzle games.

if you try and run the games directly with Wine yourself you get none of the modern conveniences in things like Steam, Lutris or the Heroic Launcher and have to actually learn the “old ways” of going through the log when game fails to launch

They do not work in Lutris or Heroic either, as I said previously.

the tradeoff is that you’re tied to their ecosystem and don’t tend to learn how to do things yourself

All of Steam’s Proton stuff is open-source and GOG could easily implement them, but they make the decision not to every day.

I get it, Linux makes up like 3% of the gaming market, but its paramount to me personally, and while I appreciate GOG’s game preservation and other ethics, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. The fact that I have to “learn the old ways” is why I won’t buy from them. I do not want to “learn how to do things myself”, I just want to play the games I paid for and not be spied on and have ads relentlessly crammed down my throat. Sorry, not sorry. I have a job already.