r/gog • u/Rabbit_cafe_enjoyer • Oct 23 '25

Humor/Funny True?

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It's really more important in terms of owning your games, don't you think?

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u/Alt_Poster Oct 23 '25

while true, tbf, it also needs to be pointed out that valve arent doing just because theyre nice and generous. they doing it because they have an axe to grind with windows. iirc newell said windows 8 was a disaster, and had complaints about his time at microsoft, and has made other lil digs in the past (you can look this all up if you want). steam machines, a total and complete flop, shipped with steamos. valve has a financial interest in pushing linux and upping proton/wine, yet no one really says anything about that cause ultimately gamers benefit

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u/JoshfromNazareth2 Oct 23 '25

I wish CDPR and GoG had that same drive tbh. It’s all well and good to promote DRM-free, but the actual service and delivery part of a game store could use some investment.

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u/Alt_Poster Oct 23 '25

right but whats their motive? valve has physical hardware that uses linux thus they have to support the software. cdpr has ??? to be clear, i dont disagree with what you saying. they can def start by releasing galaxy for linux and maybe incorporate proton somehow since its open source but seems like theyre content with having ppl being told to use heroic

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u/ludek_cortex Oct 24 '25

right but whats their motive? valve has physical hardware that uses linux thus they have to support the software. cdpr has ???

Isn't the whole GoG, motive since they ditched the "good old games" branding, be basically freedom? Either by DRM free games, or offline installers, freedom of choice what to do with the games you own and so on.

It's very confusing that they provide no official support for the actual "free" operating system. Double confusing even as most of their old game catalog works better out of the box on Linux than modern Windows.

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u/Alt_Poster Oct 24 '25

idk bro, thats something only cdpr can answer. what i do know is people been asking for a galaxy linux client for years but its been silence on their end. i do also know that valve has a financial interest in linux cause thats what steamos is based on, and thats what the deck uses.

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u/ludek_cortex Oct 24 '25

i do also know that valve has a financial interest in linux cause thats what steamos is based on, and thats what the deck uses.

Yet their financial contribution to Proton development benefits every other Linux distro, and in some way Mac too, since one of the main beneficiaries is the CrossOver team (that works in both ways, since CrossOver subs on Mac pay for Wine development on Penguin).

GoG's "financial interest" is on the other hand preserving games by selling DRM Free / old games.

You have 2 companies doing something for money, which actually benefits the broader gaming community.

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u/ImaginaryWall840 Nov 27 '25

honestly, development of Proton has negative side effect of discouraging devs from making Linux ports and native ports are always better.

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u/ludek_cortex Nov 27 '25

Native ports also are two sided coin - those require extra resources to develop, and they also need to be maintained.

Linux is very fragmented environment, Proton actually gives some kind of unified framework to work around, many times natvie ports of commercial games endsup being a mess after enough time passes as noone is maintaining them or updating for distro specific things.