• mirshafie@europe.pub
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    4 days ago

    But why do you need a launcher though? Is it to play games socially or something?

    I just launch from the start menu. My issue is that there aren’t enough Linux titles, but at least GOG is very good about marking Linux titles and making them searchable.

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      4 days ago

      So I can keep my library of games I own in one place, install it on my OS and (ideally) maintain them (patches, mods, scripts etc).

      If they really wanted to be a source of competition maybe even something like the community hub of sorts where you could download the aforementioned patches or fixes for your games but primarily for centralisation of my library in app form.

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        4 days ago

        Yeah, patches and updates is probably a good use case. GOG should probably just make a command line tool for Linux modeled after something like apt, with the difference that you need to log in to access your purchases. I think many users would also appreciate a curated directory of mods.

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      3 days ago

      There’s this revolutionary new technology I guess the start menu gamers haven’t caught onto yet known as “cloud saves” which make it a lot easier to continue playing games on different devices and through uninstalls.

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        3 days ago

        I bring my home directory with me across installs, but I never felt the need to continue on a year-old save. Across devices I can maybe see, if you have both a gaming PC and a Steam Deck, but I think that’s a fraction of players and I don’t think I’ll join that group any time soon.