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I think the bigger complaint is that, when Galaxy was released, GOG said (back in 2015)
Ten years is plenty of time to implement a launcher, or at least give a planned timeline
Sure, third parties have done it with Heroic, etc. but promising support and not delivering leaves a really bad taste to me
CDProjekt/GOG said the same thing about Cyberpunk 2077, their biggest product ever, and in the year 2025 I'm still running the Windows version of that through Proton because they give no fucks.
To be fair, you probably don't want a native version anyways. Most native games i've played just required me to switch to proton because they had their own share of issues that the proton versions didn't have.
At this point it's better for devs to make proton support a goal(i.e steam deck compatibility) rather than native linux builds. Linux just has too much diversity for native linux support to not be a massive pain in the ass in my opinion.
True. I've had plenty of games where the native version didn't work, but the Proton version worked flawlessly. Small devs can get more value for their time by aiming for Proton compatibility
Or to give literally any kind of update, like admitting it was never seriously planned.
I thought they said they're not doing it now?