immi101: you are being unreasonable.
Aren't we all...
immi101: They still offer the exact same amount of Linux support that they offered the past years. Preparing Linux installers and providing tech support for Linux doesn't happen by magic, they still have to put money into that.
What they don't do is expanding their Linux support and investing _MORE_ into it. And it is absolute okay to criticize that.
That may be true... but they seem to only be doing the bare minimal to offer what little support they do provide. It took years of asking for Linux support before GOG finally gave in (and only after Steam started to offer it by the way). CD Projekt also has a history with Linux users, not providing Linux support for Witcher 1 or 3 after 2 got panned for horrible performance at release.
My comment about "not investing anything into it" was in relation not providing equal support to all platforms so they aren't "living up to that support". But yes you are correct that they do at-least invest in installers and tech support.
immi101: But it is an overreaction to act as if they had just ditched all Linux support.
I'm not acting like they have ditched Linux support, I'm acting like that aren't providing equal support when compared to other platforms to which they sell games because they clearly aren't.
Market share should have no influence on the amount of support a platform receives, not when you are taking money from consumers who expect that they will get equal treatment and developers who depend on that support to offer games for sale. In being a distributor that is GOG's job. Without Galaxy support on Linux, Linux users aren't getting the games other platforms are getting, they aren't getting access to new features, games may be released with missing features like online MP when compared to other platforms, developers can't utilize Galaxy features in their games on Linux, and consumers on Linux get slower patches because devs can't push patches to Linux users like they can on other platforms.
It creates a tiered level of support where Linux users are second class to Windows and Mac users.