About Linux support: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_is_getting_acquired_by_its_original_cofounder_e1a0d/post347 [External Link]

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Comment from Michał Kiciński himself: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_is_getting_acquired_by_its_original_cofounder_e1a0d/post261 [External Link]

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I think it's good — looks like they made GOG private so they can pursue their own vision and not be pressured by shareholders of CDPR.

I.e. may be they can spend on Linux now more, while before shareholders could tell them not to prioritize Linux support. Just my guess. In the end, it's really up to what they want.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe point is, now they'll be sitting under some rock without their games. That will push them to take some kind of action.

Quoting: EikeI think there was a free upgrade way from some Windows usually installed with 32 bits until today. Most people do not reinstall their OS if they see no reason. Most people probably never ever install a new OS. (Not sure if the latter applies for gamers as well.)

Yeah, I mean they aren't blocked or anything. They'll have to reinstall an OS and more likely recent Windows won't work there anyway, not because of 32-bit, but because Windows has way shorter span for hardware support than Linux and the hardware that's still running 32-bit Windows even if it's 64-bit itself would be too old for recent Windows by now. So that will motivate them to install Linux or get new hardware.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm not sure that is a better question, at least for what I was wondering about. You can run 32-bit Windows on 64-bit hardware, can you not? And quite a lot of the 32-bit Windows out there may be that case, and for that case my surmise applies.

Point is that if anyone has 64-bit hardware, all the above is a non issue. They were sitting under some rock if they were running 32-bit OS on it until today.

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Quoting: LoudTechieB. Proton doesn't seem to use the WoW build [External Link]. This could be for backwards compatibility(reconfiguring all existing Wine prefixes without triggering anti-cheat blocks) and OpenGL preformance [External Link].

Proton is often behind Wine with such features. Wine already fixed the issue with OpenGL performance.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't know how old Windows has to be to be 32-bit.

A better question is how old hardware has to be (x86) to be 32-bit only. AMD stopped making 32-bit processors by early 2000s and Intel shortly after. So I'd say it has to be very old by now. I guess if anyone has such hardware, they could indeed run some 32-bit Linux, but gaming would be the least of their concerns really. I think most distros by now are dropping 32-bit flavors for good, even Debian.

More likely someone running 32-bit Windows is doing it on x86_64 capable hardware, due to some historic incorrect installation. So they can as well install a normal 64-bit Linux there.

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Quoting: LoudTechie64 Bit wine can't launch 32 bit applications.

64-bit Wine could do it for years.

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Cool they are giving it for free, it sounds like a major expansion!

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Quoting: DevlinI would agree with the "number of users" problem if they only had support for Windows, but they support MacOS too, I don´t think that the number of Linux users are so far behind those on MacO

I agree, I think the reason is mostly historic. They added macOS support when Linux gaming was indeed smaller. Today I'd argue Linux gaming is way bigger than macOS gaming.

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