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Spider-Man 2 is one of my favorite games ever. So glad it was no PS exclusive, and that they finally knocked off the PS account shitfuckery.
It's hard to find good news these days so I will hold on to whatever I can get.
Well, for me GOG and its existence is one of the good news in gaming, so check that out if you didn't yet!
It would be good news if there were any games on there I actually wanted to buy, or if they supported Proton.
And please don't mention Heroic or Lutris because they barely work either. Steam is the only one that works 100% of the time.
ITT: everyone wants to lie about Heroic and Lutris.
"Barely" feels a little unfair. But the games that do require tweaking do tend to require doing a fair bit of research. Often rather daunting research.
It's 50/50 for me
Over half my library is from GOG and over 95% of my gaming is on Linux. It's as easy as Steam, you click install and play.
It isn't. And you know it isn't.
Odd, been enjoying Silksong and earlier Baldur's Gate 3 via Heroic (GOG) and it just works on Linux. Not sure what the 'barely works' part you are talking about is. Hell, half the games I buy are through GOG now. Only one I had to do anything for is Breath of Fire IV, which isn't even offered on Steam...
The part where it barely works. Like maybe 50% of the time. Often enough to not even bother with it and just get my games on Steam where they're always available and always work.
Do you have specific examples of games that didn't work for you?
I don't keep a log but off the top of my head, Deathloop and Cygni
Dude, you know you can integrate non-steam games into your steam library to deploy proton/have them in your game selection, right? It's literally two clicks.
Dude, you know that literally doesn't work either?
Cuphead, Papers Please, Freedom Planet, and Quake 1 and 2 work perfectly with that configuration in steam on both my Debian-based and Arch based linux installations (Games installed to disk using their provided installers and then having their windows executables added to steam with Proton 9).
If you have something esoteric about your setup, explain it here, and we can look at it.
Cool, I'm happy for you. I didn't come here to debug my system. I spent many hours trying across various distros on various hardware with no success. I don't care anymore. When GOG decides they want to support Proton, I'll consider supporting them. Until then I just buy and use them on steam and they just work. The end. Thank you.
Tried Bottles yet?
In a world of garbage and capitalist-corporate exploitation of the masses, we celebrate these.