GOG's new proprietor can't stand Home windows both: 'It's such poor-quality software program… I can't imagine it!'
“Home windows sucks” looks like one of the uncontroversial statements you may make on-line lately. Between AI guff, fixed upselling (would you wish to buy an Workplace 365 subscription? No? Okay I am going to ask once more tomorrow), and myriad different causes to be sick to the again enamel of Microsoft, it sort of feels like we’re all trapped beating on the glass of an OS decided to make itself worse with each replace (properly, I am not: I put in Linux).
At the very least it is not simply you and me. Over the course of a wide-ranging chat about GOG’s now-independent future, I requested new proprietor Michał Kiciński and managing director Maciej Gołębiewski if the storefront had a lot curiosity within the ongoing backlash in opposition to Home windows and players’ embrace—nonetheless small—of Linux. I obtained, properly, two solutions.
The primary, from Gołębiewski, was easy: “Sure, we’re.” In truth, GOG has made Linux “one of many issues that we have put in our technique for this 12 months to look nearer at.” Alas, that is just about all of the element he is keen to provide. “I do not need to decide to any specifics, however actually you will note this development, and we additionally see that Linux is near the hearts of our customers, so we most likely may do higher on that entrance, and that is one thing that we’ll be .”
Kiciński’s reply was a bit extra… cathartic? “I am actually stunned at Home windows,” he mentioned. “It is such poor-quality software program and product, and I am so stunned that it is [spent] so a few years in the marketplace. I am unable to imagine it!”
For his half, Kiciński has switched to macOS, however “I typically have to repair my mum’s pc or my father’s pc with Home windows, [and] like, it is unbelievable… So I am not stunned that folks gravitate outdoors of the Home windows ecosystem. It is not the perfect ecosystem.” Boy, ain’t that the reality.
So in the event you ask me, I would be stunned if GOG did not hop aboard the Linux practice that Valve kicked into excessive gear with the Steam Deck. Now, do not get me improper, I do not suppose we’re gonna see a GOG Deck any time quickly, however higher Linux help for video games on the platform? Or not less than for these in GOG’s Sport Preservation program? It would not sound unlikely to me.