In an interview with PC Gamer, Kiciński and managing director Maciej Gołębiewski were asked whether GOG had plans to focus more on Linux going forward, given a growth in pro-Linux and anti-Windows sentiment among some PC players.
“Yes, we are,” Gołębiewski replied, stating that Linux was “one of the things that we’ve put in our strategy for this year to look closer at”.
“I don’t want to commit to any specifics, but certainly you will see this trend, and we also see that Linux is close to the hearts of our users, so we probably could do better on that front, and that’s something that we’ll be looking at,” he added.
Kiciński then addressed the current state of Windows, saying he was “really surprised” that it continues to hold such a large market share despite its issues.
“It’s such poor-quality software and product, and I’m so surprised that it’s [spent] so many years on the market,” he said. “I can’t believe it.”
(GOG founded 22 February 2008)
Surely they’ll make a native Linux client then, right, right?!
(Meanwhile; shoutout to Heroic)
They’ve only been working on it for 11 years now…
Nah just officially support Heroic, its already great.
Client for what?
You only need galaxy for cyberpunk
I did not need galaxy to play cyberpunk in my linux machine
From what I’ve read Galaxy allows for downloading specific version of the games.
Might be misremembering, so take it with a pinch of salt
It seems it’s mostly “proper cloud saving” that’s missing relative to Heroic 🤷
You can select versions using Heroic Games Launcher as well. It's a little bit hidden as you need to select 'Modify installation', but it's there. As far as I know it's not a limitation by HGL that it can only select 5 versions, that's just how many versions GOG have made available.
Is there something wrong with Heroics cloud saves? I havent tried using my saves on a windows system using Galaxy, but they’ve worked across devices running Heroic.
Doesn’t work for me across OS’s. Playing on Linux at home and windows at the office, I can’t get cloud saves to work without me manually doing stuff.
weird, I wonder why it worked for me. i havent used it in a while, so maybe I’m misremembering something or something just changed
Nah.
Just do what Valve did with Wine.
Officially fork and contribute to Heroic.
From developers point of view, maintaining one codebase that works across OSs is better than maintaining OS specific multiple codebases.
GOG has an affiliate partnership with Heroic Games Launcher already.
The sad thing is, they had support for Linux in the past. And I mean not only making the launcher run on Linux, but with Linux builds of games:
OS X and Linux support
In October 2012, GOG.com announced support for OS X. They included the previously Steam exclusive (OS X version) The Witcher and The Witcher 2, both made by CD Projekt Red. GOG.com gathered user feedback in a community wishlist, and one of the most demanded feature requests was support for native Linux games, which gathered close to 15,000 votes before it was marked as “in progress”.[20] Originally GOG.com representatives said, that there are technical and operational issues which make it harder than it seems,[21] however it’s something they would love to do, and they have been considering.[22] On 18 March 2014, GOG.com officially announced that they would be adding support for Linux, initially targeting Ubuntu and Linux Mint in the fall of 2014.[23] On 25 July 2014, Linux support was released early, and 50 games were released compatible with the operating system.[24]
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com#OS_X_and_Linux_support
Honestly native builds are bad. Proton is where it’s at, preferably abolishing DirectX while they’re at it.
Don’t they still have it?
This fills me with optimism for the future of GOG. While I do love GOG it does seem like they’ve been running on autopilot for quite a while, but hopefully with new management they’ll get to improve things for us Linux gamers. A native version of GOG Galaxy would be nice, or they could improve the API and development of projects like Comet that makes GOG achievements detectable ingame.
“It’s such poor-quality software and product, and I’m so surprised that it’s [spent] so many years on the market,” he said. “I can’t believe it.”
Based.
Literally couldn’t agree more
I hope they release dos games with the native Linux dosbox. Some games like master of orion have this, while others only have the dosbox windows version. This is a bit inconsistent between games on the store.
