The list of closed source games that also make the effort to make a Linux install is slim. I’m happy to have valve putting in the effort to make me enticed to use their store to legally buy games that are not open source and even to a degree support it under Linux.
Yes. But that’s still better than most other big gaming companies.
We should take from Valve what we can before they start invading the OS. Also, it’s DRM, so we either start to get our own game storage/acquiring mechanism or we just accept we can lose access to our games at any time of Valve’s choosing.
Steam is a proprietary app store shipping DRM and proprietary software. I can’t say I’m eager to use it
If we are being fair, they are still reasonably fair to users. Open source gaming is not a reality.
They don’t force you to use Steam, but still work on Proton as Open Source. They don’t lock down their hardware.
What I’m trying to say is, while Valve is not perfect, it’s much better than any big tech alternative.
I prefer gog since I don’t play newer games
devs can ship games on steam without drm, it’s not valve that mandates it. ksp doesn’t have drm for example
The list of closed source games that also make the effort to make a Linux install is slim. I’m happy to have valve putting in the effort to make me enticed to use their store to legally buy games that are not open source and even to a degree support it under Linux.
Honestly it is better to just run them in a compatibility layer. If they work fine in proton I don’t see the need for proton
Proton is open source
But not steam itself
Yes. But that’s still better than most other big gaming companies.
We should take from Valve what we can before they start invading the OS. Also, it’s DRM, so we either start to get our own game storage/acquiring mechanism or we just accept we can lose access to our games at any time of Valve’s choosing.