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>>evolve+(OP)
Everything valve doing for linux is making such a huge impact.

The HL3 memes don't even seem fair to use anymore. I don't even want to un-seriously make joke fun of them at this point. They are just genuinely doing so much for the community.

>>adverb+H53
Valve is one of the few companies regularly seen on HN where the headline is something like "[company] is secretly doing something really great" as opposed to "[company] is secretly doing something evil"

>>levoca+Yb3
People complain about the gambling/loot box stuff, and yeah there's legit ethical concerns there.

But overall Valve just seems straightforwardly less shitty towards the consumer than other major companies in their space, by a long shot.

>>Tulliu+2d3
Don't forget GoG which is an alternative game store with a strong anti-DRM stance (all the games there are DRM free).

>>enedil+cg4
Steam makes installing windows games easy. With GoG i would need to setup wine myself.

>>5d4140+Cy4
^ The essence of why we're doomed.

>>M95D+NZ4
Because Steam gives customers useful features that are good? GoG should also directly support Linux.

>>LinXit+i65
> GoG should also directly support Linux.

GOG is an online shop. It shouldn't support anything but browsers, bank cards and download managers.

>>M95D+X85
The charitable interpretation here is that GOG should ship linux binaries, whether native or wine-wrapped installers.

This would be a perfectly reasonable ask despite GOG being a webshop that only supports browsers.

>>monero+34b
Wine wrapped installers for ... which distro? They ship a shell script that extracts the linux game binaries to user's home dir. Works on all linuxes.

GOG ships what's available. If game devs never made any linux binaries, then there won't be any linux binaries. What? You expected GOG to make a linux port of the game?

Games with wine don't require any special installers. Just open the wine desktop and install the windows game from there, like any other windows program you use in Linux. If you think that's too hard, then get a PS/Xbox and see my original reply, the one with the "we're doomed".

BTW, you can set up your linux to directly execute Windows binaries using binfmt_misc, but that may also be too hard for some...