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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Fuck GOG.

Might be different, but when they launched what I think is their current launcher, it was still using example code from pre-Windows Vista days. This was 2020 I reach out to them, because my user files were mapped to a NAS, and the legacy example code they used didn't support this. Steam has no issues. Epic had no issues.

All the people wondering why they don't support Linux... Well that's because they use outdated Windows code for their launcher.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

User files mailed to a NAS? What?

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

God damn prediction text keyboard. Mapped! (which this time was almost married.. fucken Gboard)

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh I see, you had that directory on a share mounted on the system. That should have been abstracted away by the OS, especially if it was SMB. NFS or iSCSI would have been a bit more tricky, but as long as it was addressable through a drive letter I would have expected it to work.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I thought the same. Everything else worked, but for whatever reason, only GOG didn't. I actually still have the photo saved from it. I find errors about it dating back at least 2009. At the time I was looking into it, I found it was a common thing from some example code. And it wasn't even new to GOG; the old installer had the same problem. Example, https://www.gog.com/forum/the_witcher_2/cannot_install_internal_error_failed_to_expand_shell_folder_constant_userdocs

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

All the people wondering why they don’t support Linux

The Heroic launcher works great on Linux, and manages GOG, Epic, and Amazon games.