Looks like it's time to buy it now :)

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AMD GPUs usage among GOL users is now over 30%.

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Quoting: liamdaweHow would be the best way to phrase it?

What desktop session do you use, X or Wayland?

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPGOG installers are ridiculously slow, though, always have been. I do not know what they do with these files other than unpacking them, but every GOG installation just takes ages

For Linux installers, they are using Mojosetup, and it's using simple zip as far as I know for compression. Decompression should be possible to do in parallel using all cores, but no idea why they aren't doing that. For Windows installers they are using innosetup. Not sure if it supports parallelization. Nothing stops them from leveraging high LZMA grade compression with chunking and indexing, like pixz is doing.

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Quoting: GuestUsing Windows games on GOG means as well you support Windows. Only Valve got the statistics right with Proton counting as Linux.

This is bunk. If you hold this view, you shouldn't be using any Windows games from Steam as well. Do you? Otherwise, don't tell others they support Windows by using games in Wine. Statistics are all there, and stores can easily count where you downloaded your games from (with user agent) and they are already doing it. What anyone does with those statistics (i.e. how developers and publishers use that) is not public info anyway. So no point to speculate.

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Quoting: x_wingand in the end, is what our platform needs.

Not necessarily. Our platform needs more games. GOG installers are pretty easy to use too. If they wouldn't have been missing releases though.

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Quoting: x_wingWhy would I execute on wine having Steam? My critic is not about my personal needs, is about the average needs of the users that may want switch from Windows to Linux. That's were GoG is failing and that's why I can't consider to invest anymore money in their platform (and probably is the same feeling that many other have here).

From what I gathered, GOG games work better in Wine than Steam ones, due to being DRM-free. One such recent example is Lords of the Fallen. Steam version doesn't work, GOG one works fine (Wine+dxvk). Not sure if you consider that "average needs of the users".

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@linuxvangog and others pointed out, that "in progress" is really misleading. What it means is "eventually planned", but there is actually zero progress on it - i.e. they aren't working on it at all.

The question should be directed to GOG CEO or even CD Projekt CEO (not CD Projekt Red which is the game studio, but their parent company CD Projekt). GOG support reps can't answer the question "why".

The important point that many are missing is not the client though. But games missing from GOG due to lack of infrastructure and backend support for Galaxy that games rely on. Developers can skip releasing Linux versions, if the later is lacking even if they release Linux version on Steam. That's very irritating (and I'm not interested in using closed client anyway).

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Sill no progress with GOG release.

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Quoting: LinasI would have never guessed that DirectX will be used to enable gaming on Linux. I love it.

The worst nightmare for MS - their lock-in broken with smart technology.

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