Yeah, I’m on Linux too, and you’re right that GOG isn’t as convenient as Steam on Linux, but you don’t have to mess around with bottles to get them working. Heroic Games Launcher is excellent and has Wine and Proton built in, so installing GOG games and playing them through that is almost as convenient as playing through Steam on Linux.

I find that compared to Steam, I have to tinker slightly more often than Steam to get them working; otherwise, most games install and play perfectly just like on Steam. There’s an official GOG client called GOG Galaxy, but it’s only on Windows and Mac, so third-party launchers like Heroic are the best options on Linux. Plus, somewhat recently GOG officially partnered with Heroic Games Launcher which improved the compatibility quite a bit. There’s no achievement support in Heroic yet, but they are working on the feature for it, as far as I’m aware.

I can’t remember where the option is, but you can also add the GOG games from your library in Heroic to Steam as a non-steam game.

As for sales, like I was saying before, the sales across GOG and Steam seem to be very similar to each other, having the same price cuts at the same time as each other.

One thing to be weary of when buying games from GOG on Linux is when you buy games that are playable online, such as No Man’s Sky and Divinity: Original Sin II. These games rely on GOG Galaxy to connect you online, which currently isn’t functional on Heroic Launcher (but may get support in the future). One other thing to note is that occasionally I’ve noticed that a game publisher releases an official Linux port on Steam, but ignores it on GOG. I was disappointment when this happened to me. I bought the whole Metro series in a bundle from GOG, but I only found out afterwards, that on Steam their are actually official Linux ports for the whole trilogy. I use ProtonDB to quickly check which Steam games have Linux ports

Hasn’t this been how they’ve marketed since about 2017 now? They just seem to be pushing more and more with this style each passing year.

Wow, Microsoft really won’t stop repeatedly doubling down on their bedrock marketplace advertising. They’re like YouTube who can never get enough of it and always want more.

Yeah, I did have that problem in the past with the comment data being demolished if I transferred the files with said comments onto my NTFS formatted external hard drive, though strangely, I’m still able to manually write a new comment on those files after the transfer.

In other words, what I find is that transferring a file with a comment from one ext4 drive to another ext4 drive retains the comment data, but transferring it from one ext4 drive to an NTFS drive deletes it, though it still allows me to rewrite a replacement comment regardless.

I’ve solved my issue by installing Dolphin, which allows me to see the comments now, and updated my post.

Thanks so much for all the suggestions. I couldn’t figure out how to use the command because it was giving me errors (which is probably just something I did wrong). But I’ll try to figure that out for the sake of learning.

What did work for me, was downloading Dolphin (it looks so messes up in Cosmic though, lol) and the comments are absolutely there, thank God! So now I can recover them and I think I’m going to try to find an alternative solution for making these records that works easily across distros (because I don’t plan to stick with Pop! forever)

That’s fair. I’m not sure about Ubisoft games in terms of pricing comparisons. But no, most games are the same price on GOG as other places like Steam, though unfortunately GOG doesn’t have regional prices so that may not be the case for you. Some publishers decide to up the price a bit, annoyingly, just because they know that users are willing to pay more.

Have you not heard of GOG? They only sell games DRM-free, and have similar sales to Steam. Ubisoft particularly don’t seem to like publishing much from the past 10 years though.

If we’re talking in the realm of privacy, it’s technically better than the other popular PC storefronts because they provide an optional offline installer for the game that, once downloaded, can be preserved into an archive and installed at any later date without internet (and can still be used if the game is taken down from the store). As far as I remember, they collect far less private data too, so that’s a plus. They have a giveaway going on at the moment that ends in 10 hours for an old game called The First Templar if you wanna try out the platform.

Nope, but people should be aware. It seems most invasive policy changes in the tech industry fly under the radar because no one reads them to begin with.

That’s good to know. I think the AI might be able to see that data on the page so it might be possible to get the URL for more feeds by asking it.

Well it doesn’t have to be soon, It’s better for them to bring them back later than sooner given the pettiness of Nintendo of course. After the release of the next console might still be too soon for the devs to stay in the safe zone, but we can dream.

It’s called Fluent Reader

I just only get Ubisoft games pre-owned physically on consoles. It wasn’t for privacy reasons but just because I don’t want to support them. The only exception is DRM-Free copies on GOG.

Thanks, I’ll try to do this tomorrow. Do you think that loading Manjaro KDE or any other distro using KDE into a VM, and connecting my drive with the files to the VM would allow me to view the comments just as I previously could using KDE?

Your welcome. And, oh, that’s disappointing, I assumed that they just hadn’t written one for a while. I hope they bring them back eventually. Maybe they’ll bring them back after the Switch successor releases.

Ah, apologies. Yeah, I know what Watch Dogs is, it just didn’t come to mind. Knowing Ubisoft, I don’t even need to look at their privacy policy to know that you’re probably signing away your soul with them.

By WD are you referring to Western Digital?

Yes, I was mainly using it for photos and videos. I wrote a lot of text in old photos from when I was a very young child or baby in order to record as many memories I still have in relation to them as possible, so these comments mean a lot.

I haven’t played it yet, but a game called Veloren looks really good, and I’ve heard great things about it.

You’re right honestly. I’m sorry. I’m tired and being unintentionally annoying, so I should just delete my comments. My point is technically true, but it was just unnecessary to bring up.

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