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90% of games on steam are drm free. The only "drm" for most is a single dll that loads the steam overlay and cloud API. Remove the dll and the game is drm free.
Hell most games also support just adding a txt file to the root folder with the appID which just disables the "drm".
Outside of extremely large triple A games you basically don't have a single game on steam that has mandatory drm.
While that's true, GOG also is intended to let you download an offline installer. If GOG dies, you still have the game, as long as you saved the installer. If GOG changes the terms of their service or software, they have little leverage.
There are ways to archive Steam games, but it's not the "normal mode of operation". If Steam dies, you probably don't have your games. If Steam's terms of service or software changes, they have a lot of leverage to force new changes through.
Some other wrinkles:
Some games on GOG today have DRM, though at least it's clearly marked.
I also agree that Valve has and continues to do an enormous amount to support Linux gaming. I used Linux as my desktop back in the days when Valve wasn't doing Linux, and the gaming situation on Linux was far more limited. It's hard to overstate how radical an impact Valve's support has had.
Yeah, I didn't have a Steam account until they came to Linux back in 2013 or so. Back then, I bought most of my games through Humble Bundle since most had Linux support, and the rest direct from the dev's website (e.g. I bought Minecraft and Factorio around their public alpha/beta release). I played a few games through WINE, but not many since it was a pain.
Steam was a game changer, and they didn't even have Proton yet, so I only bought Linux-native games through them. Being able to finally find games that supported Linux easily and keep them all on an account was amazing! And then they added Proton for the Steam Machine launch, and I could finally play many Windows games as well!
In that time, what has GOG done for me? Offline installers suddenly doesn't sound as impressive, especially since they don't come with a compatibility layer, so I'll have to go mess with WINE directly again to use them for Windows games. With Steam, I can copy the installed files for most games and it'll work without Steam running, so I can get 90% of the value GOG provides (my "installer" can be a tarball) with a small amount of effort, and also get all of the extra value Steam provides, so why pick GOG?
Here's what would change my mind, in rough order of preference:
I mostly want some indication that GOG cares about Linux gamers. Valve has gone out of their way to support Linux, EGS has done the same to not support Linux, and GOG is somewhere in the middle. I like GOG's principles here, I just need some level of actual support from them.
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Why are you up voted and I'm down voted?
Because your post seemed like an accusation that he other user is an AI bot, or some failed comedy bit based on that assumption, and they just don't seem to be.
Do you like Jazz?
D'ya like dags?
How do you know if a Steam game is DRM free or not?
How do you install such games without Steam through Linux? Is it just an .exe and you click on it as I haven’t done it since probably the early 00’s?
There is a DRM section on the sidebar of the steam store page that tells you.
Did you mean this? If there is nothing written, does it mean the game is DRM free as if we were on GOG?
No, if there's nothing, it's not using one of the big DRM systems.
There's a good chance it doesn't use any DRM, but the only way to know for sure is to install it and try to run it without Steam (rename Steam dir and Steam exe just in case). Some games use Steam DRM or otherwise rely on Steam, so this is to rule those out too.
Oh I’m gonna have a look at my games out of curiosity then.
You would use a Wine Prefix Manager like Bottles or Lutris (both on Flathub). Steam itself does prettymuch the same or similar things as these.
Where download link?