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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (9 children)

i don’t want it to be the only option.

Neither do I but it is. GOG doesn't support Linux. Heroic is a 3rd party community effort. Valve is currently the only company making financial investments into Linux gaming.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

    The lack of GOG Galaxy on Linux just means you have to manually manage your games.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

    GOG lets publishers upload various installers but GOG does nothing to support them, let alone offer something like Proton (which is open source, so they could take and integrate it for free).

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    No one needs to "offer" Proton. It's available freely for anyone. I think some people think Proton is a Steam thing. It isn't. Yeah, Valve did a lot of work on it, which is great, but it isn't limited to them. Vlave has essentially unlimited resources, and I'm happy they spent some making improvements for WINE, but GOG does not have nearly the same resources. I wouldn't expect them to put their effort into that. Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No one needs to “offer” Proton. It’s available freely for anyone.

    And that's how GOG does not support Linux: Paying customers need to figure it out on their own. They don't even value their customers to a degree to take and integrate existing open source solutions.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is proton entirely FOSS? I do know that they are built on wine, but now that I think about it, I am not sure.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

    That was part of it clearly but I think more so they wanted an escape route as Microsoft enshittifies (further)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Many more companies than Valve are making financial investments into Linux gaming, including companies that own various Linux distributions (Red Hat, Canonical, etc.), CodeWeavers (who amongst other things have been contracted by Valve on a lot of Proton work) and to a lesser extent Humble Bundle.

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