• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in
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    7 hours ago

    As a Steam Deck user, SteamOS is really missing this. Downloading GOG games without entering Desktop Mode would simplify things a lot for me.

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    10 hours ago

    Lol, I don’t need launchers for my launchers. Gimme a call when I can actually play all of my Xbox games on PC.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s not a launcher. It’s a whole new UI, basically like SteamOS’s Gamescope.

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        7 hours ago

        So it’s a UI that launches games, what some would call a launcher, and when you launch games from other launchers, those launchers will launch from this launcher. Sounds like semantics to me.

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          6 hours ago

          It is semantics,but only so far as you are not understanding the difference.

          It does not open another launcher, it launches the game directly, just like Steam does when you “add to library”. It replaces the launcher.

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            2 hours ago

            Adding a game that requires another launcher in Steam opens that launcher when opening a game added using add to library.

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        7 hours ago

        The lesser of two evils. Call me when MS makes a better compatibility layer than proton.

        Love the whataboutism tho, when that’s the last line of defense one knows MS is truly indefensible…

        edit: spelling

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          What you’re calling Proton is mostly Wine which was developed by countless people unaffiliated with Valve and funded primarily by Codeweavers over past couple of decades.

          There’s no lesser evil here, Valve is out there to make money by any means necessary, including marketing online gambling to children. Which is also why feature like this will never be implemented in Steam - they have a monopoly so why would they make it easier for others.

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              It would be whataboutism if I changed subjects but I’m pointing out both companies are quite similar when it comes to distributing proprietary software, openwashing and relying vendor lock-in.

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                33 minutes ago

                I don’t have the energy or the inclination to educate bad faith agents on the internet. Mentioning Valve when I Iiterally only mentioned Linux and MS is whataboutism.

                That there is the main reason I left reddit. Go find some windmills to fight.

                Meanwhile, anyone reading this would be smart not to fall for MS’s bootleg low effort gaming software ads and steer clear from anything that parasitic monolith produces. One never knows when the OS you use for gaming is used to guide bombs to your building.