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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd love competition in the Linux gaming space, but none of them even attempt to support it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Itch and GOG have ~~decent~~ linux support

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No they don't lol. GOG doesn't even have a client, you have to use Lutris or Heroic Launcher that support it.

Itch has a half implemented Linux client that they gave up years ago and is straight up unusable/broken. The client is worse then a web wrapper and nas no support for Wine, so if the game doesn't have native Linux support, it just won't run through the client. It will download exe's that won't actually run and silently fail, and doesn't have any wine support.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They don't have a client but both allow you to just download the game and run it from a .sh that installs it in the local folder. That's enough for me but I agree it may not be for everyone.