it’s like MacOS where if it’s a game not on Steam then you’re shit out of luck if there isn’t a Linux specific version?
No it’s not. I don’t even have Steam installed & play games just fine. You can use Bottles or Lutris to run the games, I recommend Bottles.
The downside is that you’ll have to learn how to use these tools. For example you’ll not only need to fiddle with settings, but also with dependency dll files. Chatgpt can sometimes help & tell you which dlls are needed by which game. (at least when I asked it about Oblivion Remaster & Horizon Zero Dawn it knew)
Lutris has the advantage of community installers where you don’t have to figure things out, but it’s annoying that they’ll force you to log into Gog Galaxy and such for your downloaded installers & Lutris may not have a force offline sandboxed mode if you don’t want the software you run to report home.
If you decide to go with Bottles, one common rookie mistake is not giving permission to Bottles to the folders you install from and install to. You need to use Flatseal to do this nice and easy.
Heroic Games Launcher is another option, but it’s less reliable than bottles, but it has a more noob friendly GUI & you can just directly log into an EPIC account & install away without having to use the epic launcher, which can be quite great if you have a big Epic library.
No it’s not. I don’t even have Steam installed & play games just fine. You can use Bottles or Lutris to run the games, I recommend Bottles. The downside is that you’ll have to learn how to use these tools. For example you’ll not only need to fiddle with settings, but also with dependency dll files. Chatgpt can sometimes help & tell you which dlls are needed by which game. (at least when I asked it about Oblivion Remaster & Horizon Zero Dawn it knew)
Lutris has the advantage of community installers where you don’t have to figure things out, but it’s annoying that they’ll force you to log into Gog Galaxy and such for your downloaded installers & Lutris may not have a force offline sandboxed mode if you don’t want the software you run to report home.
If you decide to go with Bottles, one common rookie mistake is not giving permission to Bottles to the folders you install from and install to. You need to use Flatseal to do this nice and easy.
Heroic Games Launcher is another option, but it’s less reliable than bottles, but it has a more noob friendly GUI & you can just directly log into an EPIC account & install away without having to use the epic launcher, which can be quite great if you have a big Epic library.