Well, I am using GOG for several years now - and I would never use a client (Steam or GOG Galaxy) if it would be available - the GOG Galaxy client is not inteded to get available for Linux - and of cause someone buying GOG games are not willing to use a Steam client at all.
So when some developer want to sell on GOG for Linux, all Steam glue must be deleted - so this is a different version - and many developers make a much better binary for GOG than Steam - as Steam people don't care about 64 or 32 bit (not kidding) - and are happy to play with Wine/Proton etc. instead having a native Linux port. So if any game on GOG needs part of Steam (Client or libs for editors), those dependencies must be deleted so just a recompile is necessary (and I had to trigger a few devs to do this so I can play their games).
So this is what I know about Steam - and a lot of games have error messages about Steam and fall in a mode without using Steam - so I never care about Steam messages.
Could you explain if the GOG Linux version was compiled with Steam libs used obligatory? If this is the case, it should not have accepted by GOG at all - and they should be aware of this. Unfortunately, while a lot of developers are engaged, GOG is not. So totally broken Linux games are sold there - with excuse to be able to ask for a refund.
On the other hand Steam is the worst company concerning Linux - and after some experience I would never buy anything from Steam (I am a Unix expert). But neither on GOG not on Itch.io, any Steam glue should be used ... and I had such experiences several years - but it looks like some devs want to only create Steam games - that is ok for me as long as they don't put that trash to GOG or Itch.io.
Thus I need a clarification if a version without needing Steam libs is provided or will be provided soon - or if I should ask for a refund. So maybe you can give a short answer this Friday so I can react properly.
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I bought current Linux version 1.6 (74047) on GOG but it just starts
in a black screen on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
On GOG such errors normally have no meaningt ... as Steam lib
dependencies should not exist for GOG games.
See https://www.gog.com/forum/sub_terra_draconis/linux_version_does_not_run_black_sc...
The reason is that this game uses the GOG Steam wrapper, mentioned here: https://docs.gog.com/steam-sdk-wrapper/
Maybe you can use the enable_logs setting mentioned on that page, and see what comes up? I'd expect the wrapper to be compatbile with Ubuntu 22.
Well, I am using GOG for several years now - and I would never use a client (Steam or GOG Galaxy) if it would
be available - the GOG Galaxy client is not inteded to get available for Linux - and of cause someone
buying GOG games are not willing to use a Steam client at all.
So when some developer want to sell on GOG for Linux, all Steam glue must be deleted - so this is
a different version - and many developers make a much better binary for GOG than Steam - as Steam
people don't care about 64 or 32 bit (not kidding) - and are happy to play with Wine/Proton etc.
instead having a native Linux port.
So if any game on GOG needs part of Steam (Client or libs for editors), those dependencies must
be deleted so just a recompile is necessary (and I had to trigger a few devs to do this so I can
play their games).
So this is what I know about Steam - and a lot of games have error messages about Steam and
fall in a mode without using Steam - so I never care about Steam messages.
Could you explain if the GOG Linux version was compiled with Steam libs used obligatory?
If this is the case, it should not have accepted by GOG at all - and they should be aware of this.
Unfortunately, while a lot of developers are engaged, GOG is not.
So totally broken Linux games are sold there - with excuse to be able to ask for a refund.
On the other hand Steam is the worst company concerning Linux - and after some experience
I would never buy anything from Steam (I am a Unix expert).
But neither on GOG not on Itch.io, any Steam glue should be used ... and I had such experiences
several years - but it looks like some devs want to only create Steam games - that is ok
for me as long as they don't put that trash to GOG or Itch.io.
Thus I need a clarification if a version without needing Steam libs is provided or will be provided
soon - or if I should ask for a refund.
So maybe you can give a short answer this Friday so I can react properly.
Thanks for your help!
Best wishes,
JMB