I got a few games and I got the warning that these games do not work on linux when buying them.

Guess what: They work flawlessly on wine.

Please, give us some up and downvote buttons to mark if a game works on linux and possibly a comment field to note what versions and distribs we have and what we had to do to make it work.

Its such a waste that you seem to warn linux gamers against buying on gog.

No, for a store, there are only two options - either they support an OS or they do not. This does not mean that a game will not work on all OSs, but rather that the store does not offer official support for them. If you purchase a game knowing that it may or may not work on your system, it becomes your own responsibility. This is about what a store can legally offer and what they are responsible for.

If the community creates forum threads or wikis about which games may or may not work on different OSs, or how to make them work, that is completely fine (and they have). However, as soon as the store itself starts providing such guidance, they take on obligations to the customer that they must uphold.

There was a time you could have made a "GOGmix" - a publicly visable list of games on any chosen theme, such as "games that work flawlessly on wine" for instance (I bet there even was one like that). But seeing how it was a highly useful and popular feature GOG removed it years ago and and has been ignoring all pleas to bring it back since.

No, they are just agnostic really.

You, like many others here, want GOG to spend more time and money on things, and GOG already struggle to afford and keep up with what they already do ... at leas by all appearances.

I am grateful they do provide Linux versions for some games, and there is a big Linux community here, with a number of expert customers.

You probably got that warning because you were using Linux when purchasing.

Blame the publishers who stink at Linux, not GOG. The games I have tried natively on Linux have never given me an issue. Did you contact their support? GOG is very good with customer support even when it's not their fault.

Don't let the drama getcha In the only genre of music where the fans shoot the messenger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_messenger

> Please, give us some up and downvote buttons to mark if a game works on linux and possibly a comment field to note what versions and distribs we have and what we had to do to make it work.

Just refer to protondb. There's no point in GOG wasting what little (if any) resources they have reinventing the wheel, especially when their own client doesn't even natively run on Linux to begin with (though it would be nice).

https://appdb.winehq.org/

Another option to look up windows game compatibility in linux.
Inputing your own test results is also helpful for others.

There is also protonDB, which is meant for Steam but I've found it more helpful than wineHQ when the game is there.

Why are you recommending ProtonDB over WineHQ?

For me, on Fedora, I can install wine, and play Windows games using wine.

I thought Proton was Steam's redistribution of wine. Naturally I'm wary of 4x tactics from Steam towards wine.

Ubuntu is not the future of Linux...if it were it would have become dominant by now.

There's more games on there and more reports by people for said games.

I can do the same with Valve's fork of wine, or other people's forks of that fork, all without Steam; not to mention normal Wine has a lot of Valve's contributions already in it, though not everything.

No one has brought up Ubuntu but you.

Wasting less time on Galaxy already would be a good start. ;P I'm too, yet they could provide much more, seeing how many Linux versions are available elsewhere. Considering how many Linux versions are available elsewhere, which are not available on GOG, it's not only or always the publishers which "stink at Linux" and are to be blamed. ;)

(Or you can use your package manager to install it, should they be up with the times, like Fedora.)