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Steam or gog through heoric launcher ? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Lipriv30@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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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 and support DRM free gaming. 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.

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[–] tmjaea@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Steam. I love gogs drm free way but it saves a lot of time, most games just work ootb

[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is “ootb” ?

[–] tmjaea@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Out of the Box, i.e Plug and Play.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Steam natively supports Linux. I don't think there's any reason to go through the heroic launcher to use steam. Most everything "just works".

I want to support GOG but it's just not the seamless experience on Linux that steam is. Sometimes it won't even finish updating cp2077 without me having to unbork something by manually deleting some update files.

Edit: btw, the shader downloads are a feature to improve your gameplay experience. But you can turn that off or skip it if you're ok with experiencing compilation hitching instead.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Definately Steam, not only for convenience, but also for supporting the great contribution they have done to Linux gaming.