A Quick Guide to Install and Play GOG Games on Linux
A Quick Guide to Install and Play GOG Games on Linux
Want to access and play GOG games on Linux? Here's how to do that.
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I don't use GOG. I'm not going to let them treat me as a second class citizen, when Steam treats me as first class.
One of these two entities actually lets me own my games. To where I can install them from local files even without an internet connection. One of these entities leases me games that I can install with an internet connection as long as they see fit. They are not the same.
Learning that steam may delist a game if its offered by another store for cheaper has definitely soured my opinion of them. GOG should make a native installer though.
That only applies if you're selling Steam keys in the other store. If you sell access via other means (like direct download), you can price them however you want. Hence, thousands of itch.io games that are cheaper than their Steam versions.
No, not true. They specifically mention its not just steam keys in their released emails.
If you have a link to the actual emails, rather than a YouTube video for it, I'd be very interested in that.
If you have anything but conjecture I'd be interested in that as well.
Well, you made the claim, so 🤷
Short of evidence for your claim, I'll roll with the fact that, to my knowledge, there has never been a case of an itch.io game being bullied out of being cheaper than its Steam version.
I made the claim and provided evidence. You have yet to refute it in any meaningful way and have only provided conjecture. If you have proof the email isn't real feel free to share it. You're also free to look up the emails yourself if you feel they would prove me wrong.
Without evidence "your knowledge" means nothing.
Your "evidence" was from a YouTube video that doesn't cite the source of the emails either, and I trust that as much as anyone should trust a Twitter screenshot. If you had a link to the actual emails that said that, I'd change my mind, but you're being really weirdly defensive when simply being asked for a better source than an uncited YouTube video.
https://youtu.be/csyF67DwI4w @ 8:45
Emails revealed during a case
I appreciate what Valve does for Linux gaming, but GOG gives me the freedom to use the client I prefer (Heroic, GOG Galaxy, Minigalaxy, …) or no client at all. When I buy a game, I receive a ZIP file with everything I need to run the game, without requiring an account or an internet connection. GOG Galaxy may only be available as a Windows executable, but I run it on Linux, and they allow me to do so, no questions asked.
You want to elaborate on that?
I'm not OP but I use GOG significantly less ever since I switched to Linux and got a Steam Deck.
- Steam has an official Linux client, GOG does not
- Steam syncs my savegames between PC and Steam Deck out of the box, GOG does not
- Steam setups all the Proton-stuff and I only have to click play, GOG does not
I currently use Heroic but until GOG commits some more resources into their Linux ecosystem I'm just going to use them sparingly.
itch.io does have a client, it even has a Linux version and it's on Flathub:
Steam doesn't even let you own games you paid for, so it treats you as a pleb in feudal times - it's just that at this precise moment in time this isn't a bad quality of life. But your existence is nothing but the whim of Steam - which includes the option to shut down everything & end your existence.