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You think Linux is living a Renaissance with Gaming and New Non-Technical Users? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How's heroic treating you? I tried bottles for GOG, but it regularly fails to update either itself or cyberpunk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I will try cyberpunk one day if its on sale and my pile of shame has gotten smaller.

I made the switch to Heroic from Lutris because the integration is just better. I used both for a while, bc the witcher 3 worked better on the legacy version for me, and heroic didn't let you choose the (legacy or nextgen), while lutris only had the legacy version. But now you can install any version you want on Heroic (looking at you, every other platform with forced updates). Also, while Lutris downloads the offline installers off of GOG, heroic installs it via the GOG galaxy redistributable. This also makes it possible to sync playtime and savegames, although this is experimental right now. As soon as they start implementing achievements (which i think they have planned) its feature complete for me.

Updates of heroic itself and the games always went fine, although it must be said that the most challenging titles i have on gog right now are witcher 3 and metro exodus.