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GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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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.

GOG does currently support Linux — well, kind of. They publish Native Linux packages for various games, which depends on the developer (just like Steam does without Proton) but they have a very limited support of distributions, which can cause problems installing Linux games from GOG due to dependency mess. That, and GOG Galaxy does not support Linux.

There's easier ways to install games from GOG on Linux / SteamOS though, which you can check out in our GamingOnLinux Guide. You can even do it directly in Steam if you want to.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 62 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Ehhhhh.

I actually think the current model is what more stores should be doing. Have a solid web store/client with the ability to just download games without anything else. Provide hooks so that third parties (e.g. Heroic) can manage games for people.

Rather than assuming every single store needs to dedicate resources towards building out library management tools. Especially since EGS has shown that people will then just want social media on top of that.

[–] doublah@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 hours ago

They don't "provide hooks" though, Heroic's Galaxy integration is reverse-engineered and could break at any point that GOG update how they do things. Providing a downloadable installer is nice for some people I'm sure, but most people just want to download the game quickly and easily with features like cloud saves available.

[–] otter@lemmy.zip 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I wish there was a good way for third party clients to detect game updates, though.

[–] seathru@quokk.au 12 points 15 hours ago

Heroic seems to detect updates to GOG games just fine.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It's against their interest to offer this as they have everything to gain by making you install their proprietary application and capturing you inside their ecosystem where they don't have to compete fairly. Would Steam be in the position it's in if you didn't have to install it to download your games?

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 14 hours ago

GOG sells only DRM-free games and has usually taken a pro-open source stance (I don't have a source for this sorry)

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 points 17 hours ago

And... I don't give a fuck about a corporation's best interests (at least, not one I don't own significant stock in).

But also: Epic have the financial backing of god, hollywood, and fortnite behind them. Valve make more revenue off their cut of everyone else's games than many small nations have in annual GDP.

GoG is a recently spun off loss leader for a large regional publisher. And you don't add these kinds of capabilities without a LOT of corporate investment... or management who decides "AI Can Do It"