Lol, I don't need launchers for my launchers. Gimme a call when I can play all of my Xbox games on PC.

No thx, I don't need MS spyware on my linux distro.

Is Valve spyware okay tho?

It's not a launcher. It's a whole new UI, basically like SteamOS's Gamescope.

As a Steam Deck user, SteamOS is really missing this. Downloading GOG games without entering Desktop Mode would simplify things a lot for me.

So it's a UI that launches games, what some would call a launcher, and when you launch games from other launchers, those launchers will launch from this launcher. Sounds like semantics to me.

The lesser of two evils. Call me when MS makes a better compatibilityayer than proton. Love the whataboutism tho, when that's the last line of defense one knows MS is truly indefensible...

It is semantics,but only so far as you are not understanding the difference. It does not open another launcher, it launches the game directly, just like Steam does when you "add to library".

What you’re calling Proton is mostly Wine which was developed by countless people unaffiliated with Valve and funded primarily by Codeweavers over past couple of decades.

Like I said, whataboutism.

Adding a game that requires another launcher in Steam opens that launcher when opening a game added using add to library.

It would be whataboutism if I changed subjects but I’m pointing out both companies are quite similar when it comes to distributing proprietary software, openwashing and relying vendor lock-in.