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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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[–] Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 30 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't proton open source?

They could make a Linux client that uses Proton just like Steam does?

Maybe even their own forks of Proton that are more suited to the kinds of games they have on the platform (like the Glorious Eggrolls spin offs).

[–] priapus@piefed.social 15 points 16 hours ago

They could, but Heroic already does pretty much everything an official client would do, I don't think it makes sense to create a new client.

I don't think it really makes sense to create Proton forks for specific games outside very specific cases (like hacky fixes that break other games). Might as well just upstream whatever changes you make.