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I am left split between choosing between gog which support drm free games but seemingly don't give a shit about linux and valve which allow drm but literally have multiple people dedicated to making linux gaming better. Recently a valve developer submitted a patch to linux which fixed a regression in a logitech gaming device driver. None of that has anything to do with valve and yet they pay people to do it anyway.

For now at least I will be sticking with valve and if for some reason my access ever gets cut off I will pirate a copy of every game I owned.



> gog which support drm free games but seemingly don't give a shit about linux

I'm curious why you say that. I only run Linux games these days, and most come from GoG. Most tend to have quite good support, and I've had bugs I reported get patched.


Actually there are a lot of games on GoG that don't include the versions for the lesser platforms even when they're available on steam.

They're also behind on patches, and sometimes it matters.

I still have GoG as my preferred store, because Steam needs a little competition to stay honest. (No, Epic is not competition.)


That's less GoG and more the company publishing with them, if I understand the process correctly.

Game companies aren't great at making sure they've added artifacts for all platforms, across all the publishing platforms. Even on Steam different platforms often lag behind each other, and they make the process dead simple.


They still don't have a linux client years after the windows one came out. Also compared to valve they do basically nothing other than simply allow publishers to add a linux version.

Valve essentially created linux gaming as a real and viable thing.




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