I thought some of you might find this video from the Metal Jesus Rocks channel interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6am571umvBU

It basically discussing the fact that GOG has no plans to officially support the Steamdeck, and what a missed opportunity this will be for them. I sincerely hope GOG will reconsider this decision and make Linux support a priority in the future.

GOG is missed opportunity if CDPR doesnt open new studios imho. One game every 5 year isnt doing it for GoG.
EA and Ubisoft keeps spamming new games yearly. Thats why Origin and Ubisoft+ keeps flourishing.

I figured CDPR's resouerces arent as good, spin-offs might help. Cyberpunk spin-off sounds much smarter than Expansion. Spin-off is kinda "half-"game".

A guy on youtube saying something doesn't make his claims true just because he's on youtube.

GOG supporting SteamDeck would be a colossal waste of GOG's limited resources, and it would propel GOG to bankruptcy faster.

And it would also bring in literally zero new customers. Yes there are some customers on GOG who would play GOG games on SteamDeck if they could, but they already buy from GOG whenever they can anyway, and GOG supporting SteamDeck or not isn't going to change that.

No Steam loyalists would ever convert to GOG due to GOG supporting SteamDeck.

All the same is also true of GOG "making Linux support a priority," which would likewise be a very financially unwise move on GOG's part.

It's not about converting Steam users to GOG, it's about supporting more Linux development. In no way is that going to bankrupt GOG. I don't know why people actually think that GOG is always on the verge of bankruptcy when they're owned by one of the biggest game companies in the world. I realize that GOG has struggled from time to time, but CDPR is worth more than 2 billion dollars, and I highly doubt that GOG is going to drag them down. If GOG wants to continue to compete in the PC gaming market, they'll have to expand their catalogue to support more Linux gaming and the Steam Deck is the perfect way to make this happen. They would be foolish not to grab a piece of that market share. Also, how can you actually sit there and tell me that support the Steam Deck will result in literally zero sales for GOG. I really don't get why you would even say something like that. It's pretty obvious that the development of an app for the Steam Deck would bring in a much wider audience. That's just how business works.

* It's also important to remember that GOG customers are not responsible for GOG's financial decisions. A customer has a right to request a certain product or feature from a company, and it's not our responsibility to work out the details. GOG needs more support for Linux ... that's the bottom line. I really don't care what their finances look like, or how they can get it done, I just want to buy my games and play them on my preferred platform because Windows is clearly not the future of gaming.

Even though I don't use Linux, I think it should be supported here. Where does the money for that come from? The extra tens of cents a year that GOG would make from it isn't worth the effort. How much would it cost them to support it? How many distributions would it support? Windows 7 hasn't been officially supported for over two years but Steam still has a little more than twice the Windows 7 users than it does Linux users. I'd think the percentage of GOG users that still use 7 or even XP is higher than that of Linux users. Maybe I'm wrong.

Does GOG provide that kind of information to us?

Found these for Steam user percentages: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/linux-user-share-on-steam-hits-second-highest-percentage-in-years/ and https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=combined

For the second link, scroll down and click "OS Version".

Out of all of those Linux users, how many of them spent money on games, care about DRM-free games, have heard of GOG, or would support it if they had never heard of GOG before?

Most of the time, when I ask about whether or not a game is DRM-free, people automagically assume I'm a pirate and will tell me to buy whatever it is from Steam when it's on sale. When I tell or show them how much money I've spent here, they tell me I'm in the minority and think I'm crazy for spending the money. I don't get it. If I ask about DRM-free, they think I'm a pirate. When I do spend money on DRM-free, they think I'm crazy for not pirating. How do you think that would go for people that don't even buy their operating system? :)

That's been pointed out on GOG many times already before we don't need to support some youtuber to know this already.

GOG can barely support it’s own store page, just look at all the bugs and feature requests not a single one has anything been done about. They support galaxy which is a large resource drain, and add some tags and sorting, that is it in years. Now they are to move it all to Linux as well, and support a competitors platform (steam runs a modified Linux doesn’t it?) and to what purpose? If someone sees a game on steam deck they are not going to come here to buy it, but to steam?
Not to mention that Linux is third in the list of used operating systems at a fraction of windows and even mac.
No amount of words from the “source of all wisdom” YouTube lot is going to change that anytime soon. Heck it would take 10 years to nail down which, out of the sea of options, “linux” would need to be supported.