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GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] Lemmert@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah I get from a user's perspective why they would like an official client. But I personally don't believe it would attract enough new users to make maintaining a Linux version worthwhile from the firms perspective. ~~Especially managing game compatibility on Linux seems like a nightmare.~~ (I take this back, I was thinking about it and I haven't had any issues with Proton for a while now.) But hey, their board probably already weighted this out before making the decision so I might just be underestimating the crowd it would attract

[–] kevinsky@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Linux gaming has been in the lift for a good while now and is getting increasingly difficult write off as insignificant, I'm not sure the intent here is to attract users as much as to just service those the made the switch.

Could also be long game. Ideally this keeps growing and everyone (including the anti-cheat developers that are the sole reason some games still don't work) are giong to have to take this seriously.

And we don't know how much actual additional work there is here, it could be relatively trivial to get the client working on Linux.