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How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux? (notthesolution.substack.com)
submitted 2 months ago by formerlytomato to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Heroic did it. Why couldn't GOG?

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because of the power of friendship... And open-source.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

And caring about Linux...

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

CD Projekt is a public company, which would likely be cautious in relying on complex third-party tools like Wine.

[–] Gawdsausage@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Most businesses rely on third party tools and software libraries. Particularly open source ones.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Valve isn't public, but they seem to be making plenty off of WINE. In fact, companies of all types love building on other projects, because it reduces how much work they need to do.

They just don't seem to care. They could literally hire someone who works on Heroic to make an official Galaxy port reusing most of Heroic's functionality. Yet they don't.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep, no public company would ever use Apache, nginx, AWS. Those are all 3rd party tools.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They are third-party tools used by other thousands of companies.

Wine used to have no product built on top of it, and CodeWeavers is independent.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Aren't there a bunch of ports based on Wine in a wrapper? Those are all products.