I'm looking at you, ubisoft
I'm looking at you, ubisoft
Reason for this meme is that some ubisoft titles are shipped with a broken version of ubisoft connect launcher. Installing these games is only possible by running the installer for the launcher again via protontricks.
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What about Steam? Linux gaming would be a whole lot worse off without Proton
I could make another meme "Linux Gaming without Valve and Steam", but it would have another picture on it...
It's my observation that Valve has earned the trust of the linux gaming community and therefore is the one and only acceptable proprietary launcher.
and therefore is the one and only acceptable proprietary launcher.
Yep! But that's only until they decide to enshitify, which they (Valve) will, because they (the humans making the correct choices today) will sell or retire.
Now, if proton could be used outside if steam...
This used to be possible, but isn't anymore. Source: the author of lutris
Oh nice, didnt know that. Thanks for the info!
Huh? That's quite interesting.
I've been running a hacked-together script which uses a disembodied copy of Proton 8 (aka. copied to a portable drive, doesn't need to have Steam installed to run) to launch my games from Itch and GoG.
Hmm, just tried to use Proton 9.0-2 and the current experimental in my steamapps (which appears to be version 9.0-202), and it works just fine. Though, I guess Lutris' implementations are quite a bit more advanced than my hacks (no debugging let's goooo).
A very simplified version of my script, for those who might be interested: pastebin.com/kbNNvzAx. Don't forget to uncomment
game_exeand set it to your executable - won't work otherwise.Also, pinging @DacoTaco@lemmy.world in case of interest.
His version works though. I use Lutris for everything that isn't on steam or is a windows program, and it works great.
Steam is the first party launcher as far as most of us are concerned. When another company puts their game on Steam but makes it go through their own launcher first, that is third party in our perspective and is a source of a lot of games not working.
Steam is fine in my book. And I understand why it isn't open source with how much it's worth.
Steam has an effective monopoly on open, marketplace-style launchers. EGS is their only real competitor and everyone hates it. GOG is years behind the curve and Amazon's launcher barely exists. At this point in time, Steam is hardly considered third-party since it's so ubiquitous.
Some people hate it, including some independent developers. I wouldn't mind going without it, if there was a Free Software library management alternative. I want something to track what I have installed (because I've "lost" things and reinstalled them before) and something that has a decent uninstall.
I also get some benefit from the store integration, but I can understand developers being annoyed at the 30% "steam tax". I'd gladly purchase using some other method, if I didn't have to sacrifice library functions from previous paragraph.