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GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But why? Just contribute to Heroic instead.

[–] sicktriple@programming.dev 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Because money

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Probably just want to be able to control the user experience honestly. It's sort of what your average "consumer" expects. Maybe they could fork Heroic, but I don't really think that benefits either party long term, but I'm not super intimate on the long term life cycles of open source projects, perhaps there would be enough overlap still to offer good opportunities for up streaming despite the difference in design direction.

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They want to spend more money on their own launcher instead of just profiting from the existing FOSS one?
Couldn't they just buy some irrevocable licenses of ancient games to actually enable eternal preservation instead?

[–] sicktriple@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago

I didn't say they were smart