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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 47 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I know, it's still a single-digit percentage of the market share, but I wish GOG would finally give us an official GOG Galaxy version for Linux. Yes, I can integrate my GOG account with Lutris, which is fine, I guess, but steam manages to grab my fickle attention with their app easily, including tempting me to waste money on DRM-proteced game licenses where the games aren't even owned by me 😞

So far, Valve hasn't abused that, and they have been amazing for Linux gaming, but it does not feel great, knowing the fundamentals there are what they are.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Other people have mentioned Heroic as another Gog client

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well colour me intrigued - and also abysmally ignorant - I hadn't followed them initially, because I was never interested in the Epic Store, but checking them out again just now, the project has just easily grown into something amazing and far beyond the initial scope!

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I wish GOG's client was native to Linux, but in lieu of that Heroic is the next best client I have tried.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

AFAIK Heroic is more or less officially supported by GOG, they even have a affiliate deal when you buy games from within the launcher

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Heroic is pretty much flawless for me. It flakes out less than Linux Steam, honestly. I'm looking at it right now, and it picked up all my GOG installs, it keeps them updated and it does support cloud saves on GOG, although it's in beta and they caveat enough to make you think twice.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Heroic works perfect on steam deck.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish Valve would move to New Zealand.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Being based in New Zealand would give Valve such an incredible glowup!

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Do a merger with mega.nz

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

I gave up on GOG years ago. Not only do publishers who put their games on GOG treat the customrlers there as second class, but then GOG treats linux users as second class. So we're like. Fourth class. Sucks ass, man.

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My biggest issue with GOG is that its just missing so many modern games. Even kingdom come deliverance 2 isn't on it so I'm basically just forced to get it somewhere else or wait. The majority of games I currently play aren't on it.

At this point I'm just trying to buy games from gamersgate/greenmangaming to use on steam so at least part of the money goes to EU while still being able to do my hobby the way I want to.

[–] tjOrb3n@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

KCD2 isn't on GOG yet, but is announced to be there in spring: https://www.gog.com/en/news/kingdom_come_deliverance_ii_is_coming_to_gog_this_spring Anyway, I get your point as you probably mentioned it as anecdotal example

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

Anecdotal correct. I saw it was releasing there soon but sadly that's already a while after release and I think that does impact the sales on GOG specufically.

I've been wanting to use GOG more ever since Cyberpunk released but just plain can't for 99% of my needs.

I do use it as a launcher (connected with my steam etc) but outside of cyberpunk and the witcher I never spent money on it. All my games on GOG are from amazon prime.

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well...
The name was "good OLD games"

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

The idea of sharing alternatives is that they can replace the use of the other service. Sadly GOG just isn't there yet.

CDPR releases their new games day 1 on GOG and I did buy Cyberpunk and the DLC on there to support them, just can't find any other game I've wanted to buy on there for months.

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

While I respect and use GOG occasionally there really isn't any competitor to Steam for its library, Greenlight, and Linux support. Also their CDN tech is bleeding edge and massive, not even the Publisher's shitty apps like EA could hold a candle to it. We're very lucky Valve isn't a malicious company, really fuckin hope there's some sort of long-term plan for their leadership post GabeN.

And while yes it is American made, it's at least from Washington so that's not as bad I guess.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love Kamoot much better for exploring and doesn't create try hards trying to beat their PB's in a kids park

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Last time I beat my PB in a kids park, someone called the cops

[–] florge@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's also BookWyrm for book tracking.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which instance do you recommend?

[–] florge@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I currently use the main instance bookwyrm.social, it seems to work fine. I've never tried any of the others so can't say really which is better.

[–] Killercat103@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

Coming from an european. For software, use FOSS if you can.

[–] Foni@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could someone please give me a reason not to use/promote bookwyrm?? It's fantastic and much better than any alternative I've tried.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which instance do you recommend?

[–] Foni@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I use https://comelibros.club/, which is in Spanish (my mother tongue and in which I read things) but I think https://bookwyrm.social/ works quite well. You can consult other options at https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/

P.S. Think that it is federated, just like this, so you can follow and comment on things in profiles of other instances

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Nice, thanks!

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

OSMand is the best, it's FLOSS and the foundation that publishes it is UK-based. It also needs no cloud services and no internet access once you download the maps, which are freely available public data.

[–] tjOrb3n@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I like OSMand as well. Unfortunately, searching for addresses and POI's is sometimes not reliable enough. Guess I have to contribute by adding geo data to openstreetmaps eventually 😅

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I like OSMAnd, and want to love it, but its public transport route finding is still very flakey for me, irritatingly.

[–] beSyl@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

Story graph is from EU? Nice!!

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

If you want strava like features with only your real friends, endurain can be hosted yourself.

[–] vegos_f06@friendica.opensocial.space 3 points 1 week ago

@Blaze For route planing try brouter.de/brouter-web/

[–] cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hevy is great, no bloat, intuitive ui and no ads even on the free version. The best gym app I've tried.

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Enjoyed it but was not able to use more since the free version only allows 6 custom exercises.

Been using Strengthlog and its great! (Sweddish)

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Strengthlog is a also a great fitness app from Sweden

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

opencaching.eu for geocaching.

[–] krimson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Fitify is also European I think? Fitness app.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

The page is also hosted in France!

[–] Aidenwill@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

AllTrails was so nice, sad I didn't thought they were American. I liked to find hikes with it and its map editor was nice.