HTH does work on Linux.

What does this mean?

It means they have zero Linux support.

I think they’re saying GOG doesn’t support Linux?

I cant get by their 2fa. It sends the code like 4 hours later which by then the code times out.

If only GOG was this militant when it involved Taiwanese developers (Red Candle Game devs), I would still be using their platform. They haven’t even allowed Nine Sols on it, so I haven’t bothered going back yet or have even recommended them to the degree I usually did over Steam.

It’s not even that they had to censor themselves, it’s their woeful attempt at an excuse. It’s funny whom they kneel before and whom the are activists against. Were it a China “Many Gamers” matter, do not expect them to have been as willing…

Not sure what this means, I’m playing mine on Linux just fine.

You being able to play it on linux is not the same thing as having Linux support. They don’t even have a first-party launcher. Probably half the games I buy on GOG don’t even launch, even after adding them to Steam. Meanwhile Steam works literally 100% of the time, in my experience.

Y-yea… For solidarity

Y-yea… For solidarity

Some countries banned Postal 2 so they can’t give it to you if you live in, as a random example, Germany.

Congratulations on already living in the future they’re protesting. Realistically they probably should have recognized this would be a problem and told you the specific error but their giveaway codes aren’t really meant for this so whatever.

If you do live in a country like that you could, however, spend $70 on a year of Mullvad and be a Canadian as far as GOG knows or cares.

Maybe you should be doing that anyways, regardless of whether you want horny games and also Postal 2.

Hey, everyone, OP hates hotties and thinks they should stay unhelped!

VPN to the UK.

I want to buy more from GOG but my only gaming system I have is a Steam Deck. I know the native Linux stuff should work ok but u always have problems getting windows stuff to work. Either through Heroic Launcher or Proton. I must be doing something wrong. All the guides I find are just wrong or out of date.

Zero is a bit harsh, I bought some games with Linux launchers on GoG.

Make heroic add to Steam lib by default

If that dont work then idk

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.