How do you know if a Steam game is DRM free or not?
How do you install such games without Steam through Linux? Is it just an .exe and you click on it as I haven’t done it since probably the early 00’s?
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Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago90% of games on steam are drm free. The only “drm” for most is a single dll that loads the steam overlay and cloud API. Remove the dll and the game is drm free.
Hell most games also support just adding a txt file to the root folder with the appID which just disables the “drm”.
Outside of extremely large triple A games you basically don’t have a single game on steam that has mandatory drm.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
You would use a Wine Prefix Manager like Bottles or Lutris (both on Flathub). Steam itself does prettymuch the same or similar things as these.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
There is a DRM section on the sidebar of the steam store page that tells you.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Oh I’m gonna have a look at my games out of curiosity then.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 13 hours ago
Where download link?
tal@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
While that’s true, GOG also is intended to let you download an offline installer. If GOG dies, you still have the game, as long as you saved the installer. If GOG changes the terms of their service or software, they have little leverage.
There are ways to archive Steam games, but it’s not the “normal mode of operation”. If Steam dies, you probablt don’t have your games. If Steam’s terms of service or software changes, they have a lot of leverage to force new changes through.
Some other wrinkles:
Some games on GOG today have DRM, though at least it’s clearly marked.
I also agree that Valve has and continues to do an enormous amount to support Linux gaming. I used Linux as my desktop back in the days when Valve wasn’t doing Linux, and the gaming situation on Linux was far more limited.
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