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It was simple not so long ago. You either buy stuff or pirate it. Then everything moved to the subscription model. You don’t own what you’ve bought anymore. And now you have to watch ads while being a paying customer. It feels like pirating was a better option all this time.

The only “store” I really use nowadays is Bandcamp.

>>rckt+(OP)
> The only “store” I really use nowadays is Bandcamp.

And now that Bandcamp has been bought out it's only a matter of time before the experience there becomes crappy as well.

>>rckt+(OP)
Steam has been pretty good to me over the years for gaming. It took a long time to build up trust to buy digital-only copies of games, but they've been reliable. Even with my trust in that delivery method losing a lot of it's allure lately, it's one of the few digital storefronts I feel any kind of trust in.

And then there's GOG, which I have less experience with, but they were good, too, while I used 'em. They don't offer a Proton/WINE compatibility layer for Linux like Steam does, so I kind of stopped getting stuff there once I switched away from Windows a couple years ago. (Ironically, Linux drove me away from a DRM-free storefront, but here we are.)

>>fortys+i9
You can get Lutris: It's an open source launcher that you login into with GOG account and it will download the games and wrap them with Wine, similar to Steam.

https://lutris.net/