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How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux? (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Heroic did it. Why couldn't GOG?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 8 points 19 hours ago

And caring about Linux...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 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 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 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.