How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux?
How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux?
It doesn't make sense, no matter how you look at it.
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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
"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.
Gog is not in the bridge building business though
Proton is open source, they could just use that. Valve would hardly complain as it helps more games run on steamdeck.
I want to use GoG more but they seem to increasingly not care about Linux. So I use Steam.
Heroic did it. Why couldn't GOG?
Because of the power of friendship... And open-source.
And caring about Linux...
CD Projekt is a public company, which would likely be cautious in relying on complex third-party tools like Wine.
Yep, no public company would ever use Apache, nginx, AWS. Those are all 3rd party tools.
Most businesses rely on third party tools and software libraries. Particularly open source ones.
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.