GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by easyThrowaway on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:33AM (#46822345)

Hopefully they'll somehow support Proton and Valve devices. Trying to run older windows-only games bought on GOG with launchers like Heroic is a bit of a hit or miss, despite the Steam releases of the same games having somehow a bigger chance of working out of the box. I guess there are some weird differences between the default Proton Runtime and the proton-ge/wine-ge builds.

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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by prmoustache on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:58AM (#46822524)

If you have steam installed on the same machine, you can use proton runtimes from steam already.

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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by consp on Friday January 30, 2026 @06:44AM (#46823280)

I use proton experimental to run most windows tools with no linux support. Small script in the script nautilus folder and there you go "run-win.sh" for all (util a native tool emerges).

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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by paladum on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:57AM (#46838327)

Hi, can you share that script ? I strugle to find simple doc on running win apps or games with proton outside of steam.

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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by easyThrowaway on Saturday January 31, 2026 @01:01PM (#46838962)

I'd love to see it, too. There are a few Gists floating around supposedly letting you run a third-party game using proton, But everything I've tested fails with little to no usable debug indications on what's going wrong.

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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by Kuraj on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:06PM (#46829164)

It wouldn't make sense not to.

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