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[โ€“] lambda@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the exact opposite experience as you. I have never once seen steam crash. My steam account is now 9 years old. I was absolutely stoked when I saw GOG Galaxy was trying to handle not only GOG games but games from other platforms as well. But my experience with that has been so bad. It's fine for GOG games, but I'd much rather just add all my games into steam at this point. So as for stability, I don't see any way that GOG Galaxy could ever beat Steam.

For Linux support, Steam is a DRM which is a detractor. But with all they've done with proton, steam input, steam deck OS.. I'd say that Steam is definitely doing more for the Linux ecosystem than GOG.

[โ€“] bouh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Steam has been working on the steam deck for how long now? 5? 10 years? Gog has that much time to catch up.

And as I said, I don't deny the role steam played and is still playing for Linux gaming. But it's still a drm. And that's something I simply cannot ignore.

I do use steam mind you. But I'll use and support gog everytime I can. If steam did the most for Linux, gog did and still do the most for players.