On the one hand I like GOG because it has no DRM and has better prices (in my country) than Steam and I have the feeling that on the one hand it follows more the open source philosophy than Steam itself, but Steam has helped enormously to play Windows games on Linux, so I haven’t really made up my mind.

On the one hand I want to buy on Steam for the convenience, but on the other hand I prefer GOG because (in my country) is cheaper. Which platform do you prefer and why?

To give an example, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is currently $15 on Steam with regional pricing, but on GOG it’s worth just $6.

  • @okamiueru
    7•3 months ago

    If its available on both, GOG. Always. Even if the game was $15 om gog and $6 on steam.

    I play them through steam with Proton. It’s tedious installing and adding the games, and updates are a similar manual process as installing them. But, I want to support DRM free software.

    Edit: From the comments here… Hm, maybe it’s not a well known thing that you can run gog games on steam w/Proton?

    • @tfw_no_toiletpaper
      2•3 months ago

      Is it just adding the game as external game on steam and then configuring it with the correct proton version etc?

      • @okamiueru
        1•3 months ago

        Sort of. It might be a good idea to see what the mentioned Heroic Launcher does. What I do is tedious and cumbersome.

        Edit: I tried Heroic Launcher. Use that. It’s exactly what I wanted. Ignore what I’ve now placed in the spoiler.

        spoiler
        1. Download all GoG install files for a particular game, and place them in some folder.
        2. “Add a non-steam game” from within steam, for the installer executable, with the corresponding working directory (“start in”).
        3. Run the “game”, with the proton compatibility mode enabled.
        4. After installing, change the entry from 1., to point to the game executable (you’ll have to search for it), and corresponding working directory. It should be somewhere in $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/

        PS: Surround all paths with double quotes. Both the TARGET and START IN fields. The working directory is almost always the directory that the executable is in.

        When updating a game, it is sort of the same story. Download update files. Change the entry to run the update. Update. Change the entry back.

        I’m sure there are better ways to do this. So I’ll probably check the Heroic Launcher. I remember trying similar things in the past, and I wasn’t all that happy with it.

    • @MrPoopbutt
      1•3 months ago

      Is there a guide on how to do that?

        • @UnrepentantAlgebra
          2•3 months ago

          Definitely just download heroic. Lutris can be weird - for the epic store on Linux it literally just runs the epic store exe in wine and installs/launches games through it instead of directly in the lutris client.

          But it is Linux and so naturally one or the other store will not always work right so it helps to have both.

          • @okamiueru
            2•3 months ago

            Thanks. I will try it out. I’m pretty sure it was Lutris I had tried previously, and it didn’t work very well. As for Epic, I’d rather not game, than have to run it, even through Wine.

          • @okamiueru
            2•3 months ago

            I tried Heroic Launcher. It’s exactly what I wanted. Thanks for the suggestion