Of course, Steam Linux support is miles ahead
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Frankly, both are good options. Valve has done so much for linux gaming, and CDPR has done a lot for game preservation and DRM-free gaming. I've bought plenty of games from both.
Gog actually semi-officially partners with heroic games launcher, whose linux support is even better than steams imo
Of course, Steam Linux support is miles ahead
what do you mean by that?
Heroic/Minigalaxy/Lutris + Gog is just on equal footing.
Yes, but that is not GOG supporting Linux. Steam on the other hand goes out of their way to support Linux. And the solution you mentioned wouldn't even be working all that well if steam hadn't brought proton to the scene. I know wine has been there forever, but only since proton the game compatibility shot through the roof.
I'm not disagreeing, but Steam went out of their way to support Linux because they needed to, when they first dipped their toes in selling hardware (Steam Machine, circa 2013 I think).
GOG had no incentive to do so when Linux gaming was such a small slice of their pie. And now that it's growing fast, they still have no incentive to do so, because third parties are already doing the work for them.
At the end of the day, we gamers are still the beneficiaries of the immense effort of CDPR, Valve, and the whole open source community.
GOG is eeking out a living on old games, trying to preserve them. Steam makes billions of dollars. I think it's unfair to expect that from them, don't you? The fact that Heroic is supported on Linux and can use Steam Proton is huge. GOG still gives you the installers. Do you want them to make every single old game compatible with Linux as well?
GOG isn't some little indy outfit. They're owned by CD Projekt Red, which is a multi-billion euro outfit and the largest video game company in Europe. They're no Valve, but they're not small fry.
Honestly one thing that im not wild about with steam competitors is they all are storfronts that also make games. So I worry that if one of them becomes heavy hitters you get bias and walled gardens.
Yes, I do actually. If GOG can't do it then they should donate to one of the projects that enables their users to use the platform they want. Linux support is the most important feature for any service I use, I do not want to support services that treat me as a second class citizen.
You're talking about hundreds of games that were written by people years ago and would have to be recoded to play on Linux natively. I fail to see how that's GOG's mission.
A native Linux client for GOG's platform is a bare minimum one should except.
Why? Just use heroic.
I want to track time played with GOG.
I want to track achievements with GOG.
I want to chat with my friends via the overlay.
I want cloud sync for my Linux games (only available for game installed as Windows application, means buying a Linux native game pointless).
Because I like GOG's client.
Because I want to use GOG's client.
Because I am human and my resons are not solely on logic but emotions as well.
Heroic is a great client but I want to use GOG's client. That should be reason enough.
It's a digital distribution and shop site...
Those wishes are akin to demanding libre office calc to be a database.
What are you talking about? GOG Galaxy 2.0 already has all of that.
gog in linux.
I want on Linux what is already implemented on Windows. It is not like they have to come up with how to do everything from scratch. All the business logic of their application is already there.
Happy cake day
It seems that you conflate steam with valve. I truly appreciate all the hard work they put into Linux, proton and steam.
Gog just doesn't demand to use a client from them, as it would be the Anti-Thesis to their mission, instead they offer an open API for all the clients out there. Heck you don't even need a client to get the work gog/cd Projekt put into preserving all those games and make them runnable.
They deserve lots of love. Also: Cyberpunk was great from the beginning but got better and better...just saying.
Cyberpunk was great from the beginning
I am from Switzerland and even my Gaming Rig wasn't expensive enough to play Cyberpunk satisfatrorially.
Dunno what you're talking about. When it came out I had a 1060 6gb, an AMD FX 8320 and 8gb of ram. It ran satisfactorily, when the bugs weren't too bad, and I had to be happy with slightly lower gfx settings. Never had a play session on CP77 that was a slideshow. Maybe our bar for satisfactory performance is way different?
I also only had minor bugs. The biggest pain was this one OP boss (compared to the rest) - don't remember his name, still traumatized.
That's a Skill Issue....git gรผd chump! /s
Definitely get that. Honestly think the difficulty scaling in the game is completely fucked. The first hour and a bit is just right. Everything after is pretty much a cakewalk, with occasional instances of having to replay a section repeatedly because all your equipment and skills that smeared everything into a red mist prior suddenly is like throwing pebbles at a BattleMech.... That's pretty much my only gripe with the game. Inconsistent difficulty.