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In my experience GOG bought games handled by Lutris/Heroic/Mini Galaxy trump Steam in convenience …

… In my experience GOG bought games handled by Lutris/Heroic/Mini Galaxy trump Steam in convenience almost every time. There's been quite a few deal breaking issues with Steam client and/or Proton that went unaddressed by Valve for months that just never happened to me on the GOG+game manager combo. (Remember the most recent Steam rewrite that made certain UI elements not work on Linux and which still needs a workaround option in the client years later?) All that on top of another application requiring full browser engine under the hood eating resources just to be able to launch a game. I don't know if I am just extremely unlucky to get hit with every Linux related issue on Steam and notice its drawbacks or if people are offering Valve unreasonably high leniency, because they see then as some sort of champion of gaming on Linux, while not giving enough to other players like GOG. Pardon my rant.

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On the upside, this might mean I'll buy more stuff from GOG again. Steam+Proton is just so darn convenient .

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The Steam client was always flaky as hell - on Windows as well. I've always wondered were problems on Steam's side or on the side of game devs implementing its APIs? Anyway I personally experienced scaling issues, but chalked that up to my DE being unreliable. I also occasionally can't click on certain UI elements, but I recall this being a problem in Windows as well.

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> made certain UI elements not work on Linux ... and on Mac OS. For a while i had to play games with what control has focus to PAY them.

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