With the use of Heroic game launcher, I’m wondering if you all preferred to play your GOG version of games over the Steam version. I can go either way but sometimes I pause and think, having two copies of the same game, one on steam and one on GOG, which one would give me a better gaming experience. For example, I may choose the GOG version because I don’t have to deal with pre-shader work being downloaded every so often. I can just into my games. Yet, Steam achievements and seeing the game’s metadata is always life: seeing the game info, store page, community stuff about the game, and more all there. So what do you chose? GOG game or the Steam game.
I used to be a huge fan of GOG with the whole DRM free thing. But their poor Linux support just drove me to Steam. They promised a Linux version of their launcher for years. The request has 14,000 up votes. But they still won’t create a Linux version. I honestly don’t particularly care about the launcher, it’s just the fact that Linux is not a priority for them.
Combining that with the lack of GeForce Now support I’ve basically gone to only using them for older classic games.
I run the Windows launcher using Proton which works fine. That might be why they won’t put the effort in.
And Proton wouldn’t be an option if it were not for Valve. There was Wine but it was not nearly as easy to setup nor as compatible with games before Valve made Proton. I’ll give Valve my money for better supporting Linux.
I guess I should also note that I’ve been using Linux as my primary OS for over 15 years, so good Linux support has been my priority for a while.
I understand. We’re kindred spirits. I’m at 15 years earlier this year too. It would have been since 2001, but all I owned was a Dell laptop back then, and with only dialup internet it wasn’t possible to get it functional enough as my primary OS. No wifi back then either.
Linux is such a thing of beauty, especially now. I bought a Linux native game on Steam the day they went live with Linux support just to show my appreciation because I didn’t use my PC for gaming then. I also just got a LE OLED Steam Deck to replace my original, again because it’s such a thing of beauty now and I want to support Valve’s investment in Linux and efforts to pry open Microsoft’s iron grip on PC gaming.
You can turn off preshaders, check the settings
I have paid for games on Steam GOG gave me free.
It’s not as bad as epic, but it’s still not worth using.
I love steams game metadata. I wish I could enable it for non steam games. Regarding shaders - I turned off precaching as it was taking gigabytes of space that I needed. I haven’t noticed a difference in game load time compared to my friends who still have it enabled.
I doesn’t matter to me. But I do have all of my games (steam, gog, epic, etc) and emulators organized into steam with custom art work. Just so everything is in one place.
Steam overlay and controls is turned off though. I could care less about achievements too.
