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GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (8 children)

A really dumb question from a non-gamer. If I were to buy a game from GOG. Say Doom, can I simply run the Windows installer with bottles? I have no interest in "modern" games and I seldom play, but I have a taste for the occasional trip down memory lane.

I do use a couple of windows programs in bottles without issue, (Bambubuddy and Meshmixer), but I don't know jack all about buying games.

[–] someonesmall@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

That is exactly what I do. Except that I use Lutris for the better logging and debugging options. Just create an empty proton prefix ("bottle") and run the installer.exe. Sometimes you might need to install the visual c++ redistributables first (download and run the exe, then run installer.exe).

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