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How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux? (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Because Linux still makes up a small % of PC Gamers, so CDPR hasn't prioritized it. Plus they'd need to have some kind of proton-like middleware (or just proton) for the majority of their games (which are mostly 15-20+ years old) to be playable. It seems like a large engineering challenge for a company which isn't nearly as wealthy as valve

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago

"This river doesn't need a bridge because almost nobody ever crosses it."

Also is there a reason they can't just distribute proton? It's open under BSD, so they'd be free to do it.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 15 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Heroic did it. Why couldn't GOG?

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Because of the power of friendship... And open-source.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

And caring about Linux...

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

CD Projekt is a public company, which would likely be cautious in relying on complex third-party tools like Wine.

[–] Gawdsausage@lemm.ee 9 points 13 hours ago

Most businesses rely on third party tools and software libraries. Particularly open source ones.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Valve isn't public, but they seem to be making plenty off of WINE. In fact, companies of all types love building on other projects, because it reduces how much work they need to do.

They just don't seem to care. They could literally hire someone who works on Heroic to make an official Galaxy port reusing most of Heroic's functionality. Yet they don't.