GOG previously said they planned to look closer at Linux, and that it was the next major frontier - and they're now working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux.

Obviously we have good 3rd party options for GoG on Linux/SteamOS, but it’s still really good to see official Linux support is coming.

    • julianwgs ( julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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      2 months ago

      Official support & blessing is always better and involves less toil for maintainers in reverse engineering APIs and keeping them uptodate. For example it is much better if game developers take Linux support seriously than Valve running around fixing all the dumpster fires.

    • NeatNit ( NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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      2 months ago

      What I’m hoping is that they start supporting cloud saves for Linux native games, e.g. Silksong. This is something GOG needs to support server-side, and they’d only bother to do that if they have an official Linux client to do the syncing.

    • Fubarberry ( Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ) OPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Official support is good for a couple reasons, it both gives an official method to play the game on linux that’s expected to work, and means that if a game doesn’t work you have a valid basis to reach out to support or get a refund.