No one needs to "offer" Proton. It's available freely for anyone. I think some people think Proton is a Steam thing. It isn't. Yeah, Valve did a lot of work on it, which is great, but it isn't limited to them. Vlave has essentially unlimited resources, and I'm happy they spent some making improvements for WINE, but GOG does not have nearly the same resources. I wouldn't expect them to put their effort into that. Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

That was part of it clearly but I think more so they wanted an escape route as Microsoft enshittifies (further)

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No one needs to “offer” Proton. It’s available freely for anyone.

And that's how GOG does not support Linux: Paying customers need to figure it out on their own. They don't even value their customers to a degree to take and integrate existing open source solutions.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is proton entirely FOSS? I do know that they are built on wine, but now that I think about it, I am not sure.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Is proton entirely FOSS?

Of course it is. Proton-GE and umu wouldn't exist if it weren't.

but now that I think about it, I am not sure.

You could have headed to Github and just looked for yourself...

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

On steam I can click install and run and most games windows and Linux just work without further effort. This makes gog worthless to me. I could just use wine I don't know why I'd bother.