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What do you mean by they ignore Linux users?

Every game clearly indicates whether it provides a Linux installer so there aren't any surprises there, and even in the cart you'll get a banner message saying something like, "Some of these games don't work on your operating system (Linux)" to avoid surprises.

You can even search the store filtering only for games that provide a Linux installer, which is a control I use regularly. It's disappointing how few games do offer that, but it's getting better everyday (for which I largely credit and thank Valve).

They don't support Linux with GOG Galaxy, but given they maintain compatibility with Lutris and Heroic and others I think I actually prefer that to official GOG Galaxy Support.

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>They don't support Linux with GOG Galaxy

This is a bit of an issue.

For example, Dead Cells offers daily challenges and has a few items locked behind completing them. They facilitate these by using the platform's tooling, which means the GOG version uses Galaxy and Linux users can't access it. And as far as I can tell, there's nothing on the site telling you this, troubleshooting the problem took a fair amount of digging.

A small thing, and I still opt for GOG over anything else, but it can be annoying.

Two things, Heroic implements a GOG Galaxy api [1], and second, the challenges work on Windows without Galaxy, the problem is that their build of SDL is not up to date [2]

1: https://github.com/imLinguin/comet 2: https://www.gog.com/forum/dead_cells/daily_challenges_on_lin...

Another aspect to this, for recent games I imagine on a certain level it's on the original developer to implement things for their games sold through the GOG channel. There is a spreadsheet [1] of games where the GOG version has lesser functionality or has been left behind compared to others, usually steam.

This is one of my problems with the "PC gaming = steam" attitude that has become prevalent, PC as a platform is broad and varied, and if you're going to sell your product on multiple stores without making clear that they're different then you really should support them, otherwise be honest enough to only sell where you are prepared to. I'd say managing expectations and who's responsible only gets muddier when you're involving compatibility across different windows versions, hardware generations, or different OSes entirely.

[1] - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zjwUN1mtJdCkgtTDRB2I...

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