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This is why I gave up buying on GOG and buy my games exclusively on Steam. Valve has made linux a viable gaming platform through seamless proton integration and steam deck. GOG on the other hand hasn't even built a linux client after all these years.
You do you. But I will say that I am actually happy that CDP haven't made a linux client. Partially because.. gog galaxy is REAL bad.
But mostly because they don't need to. They provide either APIs or consistently navigable sites so that stuff like Heroic Launcher and other third parties can do it for them. And while I wish they would offer Linux versions where applicable, the gog installer has also more or less become a "standard" for stuff like Lutris to apply recipes to anyway.
I am happy that Valve are increasingly treating Linux like a first class citizen (even if a lot of that is just to spite MS and maximize Valve's control over PC gaming...). But we also should not be dependent on vendors specifically targeting Linux and should instead encourage them to provide hooks for others to do it for them.
Which... is ironically what Valve did. They stopped encouraging devs to make linux releases (Steam Machine era) and now just pump money into Proton so they don't have to.
I only made this comment because for some reason GOG seems to be more preferred by linux users than Steam, where as Steam has done a lot more for linux, and it not just works for Steam. GOG is now easily usable on linux mainly thanks to Valve's proton. I don't mind if game devs don't make as many games for linux. There is a huge chicken and egg problem with game development and userbase. Before proton they had all the reason to make games for linux but most didn't because it didn't make much financial sense to them. Now they don't have to worry about it. Plus, linux is much more than gaming. Because there is more people using linux now because of gaming, software other than games would be interested in building for linux, because the userbase is getting there.