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Posted August 20, 2023
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amok: what you are talking about here is not copyprotection... nor is Steam's DRM "super secure"...
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Geromino: Um.

I dont think you grasped the intend of my posting.

You may look up what the term "sarcasm" means.
I am so glad you necroed this thrrad for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Posted August 20, 2023
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SargonAelther: Oh it's great as a console, especially if you live entirely within Steam, but as a GOG user who cares about achievements AND wants the handheld PC to act like a proper PC, the Deck's been giving me nothing but trouble.

If I was concerned about my budget, I'd get a ROG Ally, at least Windows has better touch support (On the desktop) and most apps run without tinkering. I can afford to by indie device though so I go for GPD, because they are keyboard-obsessed. And heck, this Obsession may just save them, because I think the ROG Ally has just made Aya Neo, OneX and AOK obsolete lol.
Weird. As a GOG gamer who cares about achievements, the thing works great for me. I installed Galaxy as a non-Steam game, then I install my games through Galaxy. I add a non-Steam game, tell it to use the same compatdata prefix as Galaxy, and point the installer to Galaxy, run game id xxxxxx. Games work in desktop or gaming mode with a long loading time since it has to load Galaxy first. But I get cloud saving and achievements (unless a game *coughBG3cough* doesn't want to support cloud saving) just fine. Of course, I may make different Galaxy installs for games that require different PROTON versions to keep from mixing the bag in the prefix, but the beautiful part is I haven't come across any games I want to play on my deck that don't work with the versions of Proton I'm running.
Posted August 20, 2023
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Darvond: I'm not quite sure what you're laying down here. GOG's Linux support is begrudging at best, as GOG refuses often to engage with open technologies on any reliable level.

Valve on the other hand, has an entire hardware platform and support system, plus they're fielding development of a mass of technologies.
Gog supports linux fine, people just like to complain about anything. Valve is poison and drm, it's literally the opposite of what linux stands for.
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Darvond: I'm not quite sure what you're laying down here. GOG's Linux support is begrudging at best, as GOG refuses often to engage with open technologies on any reliable level.

Valve on the other hand, has an entire hardware platform and support system, plus they're fielding development of a mass of technologies.
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SargonAelther: DRMd OS with DRM-Free games, or DRM-Free OS with DRMd games. Pick your poison I guess. I still think DRM-Free games are more important. Windows DRM is easy to overcome and telemetry and junk can be stripped away too.
drm free os and drm free games is ideal which is what linux and gog are. MS is removing workarounds to the drm each time and principles are important in general. They are heading to a cloud os in the future which cant be overcomed as well.
Post edited August 20, 2023 by LU2004
Posted August 20, 2023
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SargonAelther: DRMd OS with DRM-Free games, or DRM-Free OS with DRMd games. Pick your poison I guess. I still think DRM-Free games are more important. Windows DRM is easy to overcome and telemetry and junk can be stripped away too.
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LU2004: drm free os and drm free games is ideal which is what linux and gog are. MS is removing workarounds to the drm each time and principles are important in general. They are heading to a cloud os in the future which cant be overcomed as well.
Nothing but speculation. Even Windows 11 can still be fully used locally and offline.
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