Good to see GOG refocusing on games preservation. 100 games might be just a tiny fraction of all the games that need to be preserved, but at least someone is starting somewhere.
Good but one thing I don’t like is that GOG is from Poland aka EU and I still can’t find any privacy related ”switches” in their app or website.
Who’s a good game? Yes you are! Yes you are!
If we could somehow merge steam’s linux support, with GOG’s dedication to DRM-free preservation of games
I really tried to support GOG for a long time, but steam was much easier when i went 100% linux
I haven’t had any issues with gig + lutris, quite a smooth experience actually.
Though most of the games in my library are older tbf.
Steam has been so easy since proton, i honestly never learned to use lutris. I think i played with it once and gave up, but this was 6 years ago at this point. Maybe its easier to use now
Its pretty easy and straightforward. You can connect to your gog account from inside lutris, browse your games, download and install.
Which then sit cleanly next to other games you may have, roms, etc.
Wow thanks. That sounds amazing!
Will definitely give it a try asap
I was also in your position.
Tried to use lutris a few years back and got spooked. I tried lutris again this year and the process seems to be more streamlined. I just tried installing an ancient game from an ISO and lutris asked me “are you trying to install game A? Then we will apply the patches for game A”. It was all automatic.
I’ve had fewer problems with GoG + Lutris in Linux than I’ve had with Steam in Linux, to the point that I had to pirate one of my Steam games in order to be able to run it in Linux (the pirate version runs just fine).
Mind you, I get the impression that older AAA games are the most problematic ones, thought that’s maybe because I don’t run anything with Kernel Anti-Cheat and nowadays don’t really do online gaming (in fact all my games in Lutris are run inside a firejail sandbox with network access disabled).
I use Heroic Games Launcher to run GOG and Epic games on Linux. It’d be great to get some official support, but it’s the next best thing.
Allowing 3rd party clients is better than official support
Stores shouldn’t also be in control of the client
The effort and money and energy needed to keep digital things archived forever seems pretty massive… What if we just took the source code for them and wrote them down on something less likely to degrade over time? 🤔
Stop taking physical data and making it digital; take digital data and make it physical again!
