Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I do the exact same, but I also buy multiplayer and VR games on Steam, because I run Linux, and GOG Galaxy isn't out on Linux (yet). I really don't want to faff about getting all of that working on each individual game. I bought Rain World and FTL on GOG, but Star Wars: Battlefront 2 on Steam.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

You can run Heroic Launcher on Linux and it ties into GoG, didn't know if you knew. (I run Linux too! There's dozens of us xD)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I already use it, but thanks for recommending it. It's really great. Here on Lemmy, I think the number of Linux users is in the thousands, not dozens.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Here on Lemmy, I think the number of Linux users is in the thousands, not dozens.

Can confirm

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for pointing this out about multiplayer and VR games. I had wondered about this exact thing, so I appreciate your confirming it!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I didn't really point much out. I only know that multiplayer games use either Steam or GOG Galaxy to log in and that there aren't many more OpenXR runtimes besides SteamVR on Linux (I know of WiVRn, but I had an Nvidia GPU and couldn't figure out how to compile the Vulkan extensions required). I find it tedious to manually set up save file synchronization for my GOG games, so I really can't be arsed to go so far when Steam just does it all for me.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Heck I just run GOG Galaxy in Proton to not have to patch everything manually.

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