GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026
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With Linux gaming clearly showing it's becoming more popular, and with GOG under new ownership, there's hope yet that GOG will improve their Linux support.
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GOG’s installers work great with Wine as do the games themselves. If you desperately need a launcher before you can even consider them, you can use Heroic Games Launcher - in fact I’d prefer if they throw their weight behind it than on Galaxy. A match made in heaven.

I guess the other good thing is GOG is not a US company, they’re based in Poland. No tax money going to the American regime and their shenanigans I never asked for.

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GOG, it will be easier to “look a bit closer at Linux” if you pull your heads out of your asses.

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Heroic Games Launcher is pretty good if you just need to play the games from GOG.

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Some engagement would still be good. For example without Galaxy some games have reduced functionality like no PvP or map updates (Northgard).

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Look harder.

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and that’s something that we’ll be looking at.

Meanwhile, steam is over here cornering the market

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I think you underestimate how much money valve has, and how little GOG has.

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And? Literally all they need to do is make a decent launcher / downloader that isn’t stuck in Windoze

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The beauty is that valve has opensourced a shit ton of what they done

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It’s been years since they last promised a Linux client.

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You don’t need a client, you just download Linux games from their site and run them.

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It would be nice if the supported a standard container image to have more compatibility with more distros

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What could they even do? The games work fine on linux

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Official support for proton and official client for gog galaxy or just helping with Dev of heroic

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