I got GOG Galaxy working in Steam, through Proton, as an "Add a non-Steam Game". I'll have to try Heroic Launcher.
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Electrical engineer here. There is almost no difference.
The cost of streaming video from a server to your computer is pretty small, basically just transferring the bytes from a hard drive to a network card. This happens in a datacenter on a big server designed to be efficient at it, and serve a ton of people at once. Your own electricity consumption on your viewing device is likely much higher than that. You can calculate your electricity consumption using a Kill-A-Watt or similar device, but here are some averages of measurements I've made on my devices:
If you look at your computer's CPU usage while watching video, it's mostly idle. So most of the power consumption is the screen's backlight.
Assuming worst-case coal power, releasing 0.4kg of carbon per kWh, and a large TV, and let's say 10% overhead for the server's energy cost, that's 0.13kg of carbon per hour. So don't worry about it.