GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/
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@gamingonlinux It's about 15 years too late from their promised schedule, I guess. Also overshadowed by **checks notes** getting called out on blowing nazi dogwhistles and then doubling the fuck down.
I don't think it's right for any conversation about GOG now to happen without mentioning that they did this and pressed the button that said "I am aware and would like to proceed"
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@VileLasagna that whole thing was massively overblown, they included icons in an email and clearly didn't mean what people saw in it
@gamingonlinux Took them a while.
@gamingonlinux Neat. Though I'd quite frankly prefer them simply becoming major contributor and sponsor of the Heroic Launcher.
Perhaps with an optional "GOG Galaxy Theme" for the launcher so they could still do brand deals and such. Perhaps installable as an Addon through Flathub, that way they could even point to something in the store.
However as long as GOG Galaxy ends up being Open-Source I'll also take that. 
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@Natanox I hope Galaxy becomes open source, but I don't see any reason to believe that will happen
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@Distante If they do even a little bit of market analysis they'll realise making the Linux version proprietary would be a major mistake. Not to mention any major software store GUI (at least that I know of) highlights if something is proprietary as a warning, so even if the initial bad press goes away the warning won't.
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@Natanox I disagree. Steam, Zoom, and DaVinci Resolve are not open source. People install whatever they feel they need
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@gamingonlinux wow I never thought I'd see them make that call.
