GOG lets publishers upload various installers but GOG does nothing to support them, let alone offer something like Proton (which is open source, so they could take and integrate it for free).

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip -2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

No one needs to "offer" Proton. It's available freely for anyone. I think some people think Proton is a Steam thing. It isn't. Yeah, Valve did a lot of work on it, which is great, but it isn't limited to them. Vlave has essentially unlimited resources, and I'm happy they spent some making improvements for WINE, but GOG does not have nearly the same resources. I wouldn't expect them to put their effort into that. Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No one needs to “offer” Proton. It’s available freely for anyone.

And that's how GOG does not support Linux: Paying customers need to figure it out on their own. They don't even value their customers to a degree to take and integrate existing open source solutions.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is proton entirely FOSS? I do know that they are built on wine, but now that I think about it, I am not sure.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Is proton entirely FOSS?

Of course it is. Proton-GE and umu wouldn't exist if it weren't.

but now that I think about it, I am not sure.

You could have headed to Github and just looked for yourself...

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

That was part of it clearly but I think more so they wanted an escape route as Microsoft enshittifies (further)

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

On steam I can click install and run and most games windows and Linux just work without further effort. This makes gog worthless to me. I could just use wine I don't know why I'd bother.