Why do you think GOG is not more eager to offer support for operating systems based on the Linux kernel?

Personally, I believe GOG should offer more support for operating systems based on open source, monolithic Unix-like kernels. I am really struggling to comprehend why that is not the case.

As an example, the application GOG Galaxy does not run on operating systems based on the monolithic Unix-like kernel. Why?

Lack of resources. Plain and simple.

I don't think it's just lack of resources, considering they even tried alienating their users with bad advices before.

Plain & Simple. GOG doesn't have the resources or expertise and profits don't cover expenditure enough, especially as the users for such are quite a small minority compared to regular Windows customers.

I wish we got more Linux variants for games, but that is the reality.
And any true support for Linux games at GOG have always been provided by volunteer outsiders.
And its not like GOG have kept any of it secret, they've been upfront from the start about it.

At the end of the day it is low priority compared to other issues at GOG.

Linux is a very tiny niche minority of users, therefore it is not financially viable for GOG to support it.

This. It makes sense for Steam to go after Linux, because they have the resources necessary to create their own plug & play platform from it (which Linux allows and Windows/MacOS doesn't) and appeal to the mainstream.

GOG doesn't have those resources.

So until someone makes it ridiculously simple for most games to integrate in Linux (totally doable btw, there is just not enough energy focused in that direction right now from the players with the resources to pull it off), support for pragmatist, conservative and laggard users will be poor. There will be a minority of users (innovators and early adopters) that will manage to do things with it that would make Windows users envious, but given the amount of work required, it will be a minority.

Makes me wonder if they'd sell Android apk files...

Wishful thinking, but every once in a while I suggest that. Hopefully that becomes a thing, though. Android could use more decent games, as well as DRM free commercial games.

Lack of user base.

It would be cool to see more support for linux now that Windows 11 is drm. You need an internet connection and MS account for both the pro and home version of windows 11.

Well android is just Linux but with a fixed interface. And if i understand it right, everything is compiled with Java, which is then JIT (Just-in-time) recompiled to native code making it good overall regardless if it's ARM or x86 CPU.

But with the differences in the Android OS, it's hard to say. I remember using the Lolipop tablet (which i got rooted), and everything that worked on that doesn't work on modern versions of the OS. Which is too bad.

I don't have Windows 11 yet, and maybe never, but unless I am mistaken, once you have verified Windows you no longer need to be web connected to use it ... except for web things of course.

So in that context, every version of Windows in recent times that I can recall, has always been DRM ... sure, Windows 10 had a free period for some, if you qualified, and still does if you know what you are doing, and Windows 7 had a free Starter Edition, but essentially Windows has always had some form of DRM ... some more easily overcome than others.

Win 11 also requires TPM 2.0:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/enable-tpm-2-0-on-your-pc-1fd5a332-360d-4f46-a1e7-ae6b0c90645c
What it does is require higher system specs and locks in customers to their ecosphere. It’s not DRM as such though that term is used for a lot of things, but it is one of the increasingly anti human practices of tech companies across the board in the name of convenience. It’s “smart”(tm).

Serial activation is of course DRM as it’s to prove you have a valid license to use the software.

You need an internet connection and a Microsoft account to install windows 11, that is drm. Previous windows you can install them without an internet connection or account. Even windows 10 let you create a local account. When MS takes down the w11 servers you wont be able to install w11 period. In w12 it's probably going to be cloud based like hey have been talking about for a while.

Untrue. Do you have (a) source(s) to back up your statement?
I don't remember Windows 9x anymore, but any version since then needed internet activation. Sometimes YOU don't have to activate it*; but that just means that it came pre-installed and the PC manufacturer or store already did that.*

*Not my personal experience, because I've always had desktop PCs, assembled from parts (or second hand laptops).

edit: Windows 10 remains "fully functional" (minor limitations) without activation. I don't know about W11.