Someonelol comments on Steam is a ticking time bomb

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Have you considered gog? They may not be betting heavily on Linux or have as a big of a selection but their games are DRM free. You can even install gog Galaxy, a game manager similar to Steam.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Doesn't seem like GOG galaxy is for linux

GOG GALAXY 2.0 Open Beta is available for Windows and Mac. Please download the installer on your PC.

That's a disappointment, but Heroic Launcher is. I'll give it a shot and see if there are new games on there for me. The name "Good Old Games" gave me the impression it was for stuff like boomer shooters or side-scrollers and stuff.

Anti Commercial AI thingy

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[–] lightstream@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Heroic works really well. I've just installed it myself recently, motivated mostly by a desire to finally play the free games I got off Epic. I've only installed two EGS games so far - Civ 6 and Guardians of the Galaxy - but they're working perfectly, running via proton.

The experience is so good I was actually inspired to buy my first game outside of steam in years, namely Wartales which I just bought yesterday on GOG. Installation is a breeze, it runs under proton, and as far as I can tell it is running perfectly.

I sort of prefer Heroic to Steam in fact, because it starts almost immediately - no waiting around for 30 seconds while it tries to connect to the Steam network etc

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Add it to configuration.nix 👼 Thanks for the review.

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