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How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux? (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (25 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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Heroic did it. Why couldn't GOG?

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Yep, no public company would ever use Apache, nginx, AWS. Those are all 3rd party tools.

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