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How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux? (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Heroic did it. Why couldn't GOG?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

And caring about Linux...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 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.