this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
59 points (89.3% liked)

BuyFromEU

1816 readers
1009 users here now

Welcome to BuyFromEU - A community dedicated to supporting European-made goods and services!

We also invite you to subscribe to:

Logo generated with mistral le chat Banner by Christian Lue on unsplash.com

founded 2 weeks ago
MODERATORS
 

Hey there!

I am really astonished about the big amount of alternatives we've got in europe.

But I think this is a hard one: Steam.

I have switched from windows to linux a few years ago and I don't plan to go back. Steam has the advantage of the integrated proton-service which allows playing many windows games on linux.

Do we have something similar?

~ sp3ctre

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 22 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I wish the GoG client supported Linux the same way Steam do.

[–] cron@feddit.org 27 points 16 hours ago

Heroic launcher and lutris are both decent and work well with gog. I'm currently playing Cyberpunk 2077 from gog on ubuntu with heroic.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 12 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Good luck. Their website said it's coming for years, then they quietly dropped the promise.

Didn't even have the decency to publicly admit they were never going to care about Linux support.

[–] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Too bad. One can hope that when Valve release SteamOS for general use, a decent amount of those forced to upgrade to Windows 11 later this year will use SteamOS instead.. and maybe that will give Linux some traction amongst gamers. But it might also not.

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Last weekend I upgraded my gaming pc from windows 10 to EndeavorOS. It works great and I can run all my games. Pillars of eternity never worked for me with windows since I’m using a weird TV as a screen, but with Linux everything works.

My reason for upgrading was the W10 EOL and the fact that my computer couldn’t run W11 due to no tpm.

[–] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I know there is workarounds, but it would be nice with official support.

[–] cosmo@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

It will be coming... Probably some time after nvidias wayland support is finally good enough to support all the features needed... so it could take a while... I wish they would release it for intel & amd GPUs already though :/

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They sid partner up semi-officially with heroic though.

Makes sense, don't duplicate the already perfectly fine work of the heroic team :)

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Nobody non tech savvy or without weird interesting is going to pick up an unofficial 3rd party launcher

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

Lutris really makes it a non-issue.

[–] TeutonenThrasher@feddit.org 3 points 16 hours ago

Minigalaxy might be an option