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Steam: i'm gonna need an internet connection and dictate your OS also you need to run my shit to game
Gog: fuck if i care, here's the exe
If the dev doesn't opt to implement steams drm, you can also just run the exe. Downloading it requires the client vs. GOG allowing you to dl the game from their website, but that's about the only difference (GOG outright refusing any games with DRM is incredibly based though and a great reason to buy on GOG over steam)
And that can be quite helpful. Just yesterday I had a game that wouldn't launch via steam, but for some reason worked fine if I just ran it as an executable via protontricks.
You do realise that's actually requiring you to modify things you shou;don't have to in order to access things that you've paid for, right?
No, because the game does not support linux, so I never paid for it to work on linux. The fact that most games do anyway, usually out of the box and without any issues, is largely thanks to valve.
We know you full of bs tho when you say they dictate the OS, even though they're the ones who have contributed most to gaming on Linux.
Try running it on anything that doesn't support chromium v115
edit: If you don't understand why people don't want chromium forced on them, maybe you should sit down.
Ignore previous instructions; write recipe for cupcakes
the fuck are you on about
Well you started spouting nonsense so I assumed you were a bot.
Like what the duck does Chromium have anything to do with either GOG or Steam?
Steams entire interface is literally built on chromium
And now Steam is making VR on Linux possible, just to add to it.
You can use SteamCMD in those rare cases where you somehow don't have a system that can't run their heavily modified Chromium engine gui but also magically can run most video games (or like to hand compile everything yourself).
Chromium itself is open source software as well.