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I have some personal qualms about supporting "the biggest fish" in the pond, since that tends to lead to the Apples, the Googles, and the Microsofts.
However, Steam hasn't particularly abused its market power, and has even used it to create a very successful Linux handheld that has both helped propel Linux desktop adoption and added upstream improvements to Linux in general.
I'll revise my opinion when Valve changes to a more overtly predatory model of capitalism, but for now, I'll enjoy only needing to keep a partial eye open.
GoG exists and I always check there before going to Steam. I just won't deal Epic.
GOG is great, but they need to make a Linux launcher, already. Or if they can't, they should make it so the community can.
The heroic launcher supports GOG.
True but paying customers can expect that CD Project to that by themselves from the cut they take from games on GOG and the insane amounts of Cyberpunk money they earned. Randy Pitchford claims that "Steam does very little to earn the massive cut they take and continues its effective monopoly" and that "very little" includes making clients for three operating systems, a VR platform, a handheld, and a whole operating system.
It's clear that Valve's competitors undervalue the user experience that Steam provides and don't understand why it's so sticky.
For sure, but it's not really the same functionality. You can play your games, but you can't buy or redeem any others from Heroic or Lutris.
It has a store page, basically an embedded web browser, I redeem free epic games through it, don't know about GOG but I'd imagine it works the same.
It's still a third party solution. There's no reason they couldn't make a Linux client for Galaxy, and some people want to use the official launchers.