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Posted April 22, 2016
Extended support for our expanding catalog of Linux games



A happy day for all worshipers of the mighty penguin! Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been released and is fully supported by GOG.com, making your Linux gaming experience smoother and more stable than ever before.

Alongside the 16.04 release GOG.com will of course continue to support 14.04, although we suggest keeping your system updated to minimize the risk of running into any issues. Our support also extends to any future non-LTS releases, official Ubuntu flavors (like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.), and derivatives (e.g. Linux Mint, elementaryOS etc.), so as long as your operating system is part of the Ubuntu family, you have nothing to worry about. Naturally, our technical support and refund policy apply to all these versions.

Our brave QA team has been tirelessly testing the games in our Linux catalog and we're happy to report that nearly all of them are already fully compatible with Ubuntu 16.04. The very few temperamental ones are getting fixed soon, so keep an eye out for patches.

AMD Radeon users should remember that the fglrx driver is removed from this release and they should use the opensource driver that is included in 16.04 by default. Read more about it <span class="bold">here</span>.

If you find yourself in need of technical support or more details regarding Linux matters, head to this <span class="bold">FAQ</span>. All the information in it will be updated soon.


Happy upgrades!
Posted April 23, 2016
Good news indeed! Thanks GOG.
Posted April 23, 2016
Re. Mir.

I think this recent meme of everyone having to use the same "thing" whether it be the display server or the init system or the shell or filesystem layout, whatever, it's terrible. Back when I used Linux as my daily driver (2005 onwards), the freedom you had with all the choices were seen as a virtue, and portability was likewise a measure of good software & development habits. Developers would be proud to show their thing would run all these and these platforms; that were an accomplishment their users would appreciate and that made the developers themselves feel good about their code.

Now it's all kinda starting to get backwards. I guess the scene has been taken over business minded people who just see time and money. The same people who would write Windows-only software without ever looking into what it'd take to write portable code, and then go on to say that porting to any other OS would take too much time or effort. Or the modern game developer who might spend a year or two making a game and then won't spend a weekend to make it possible to rebind the game's keys because everyone's right handed and uses QWERTY & WASD on a flat staggered-row keyboard anyway!

Rather than appreciating differences (and even accommodating them), you get this passive-aggressive type who declares that everyone's going to use their chosen display server and syste.. erm, init system, and will go on to create complex dependencies on their chosen components so that anyone using something else will have a harder and harder time. And they won't lift a finger to help. Our way or high way..

I wonder if we'll see the day when every reasonably well supported distro is basically rhel/fedora (or whoever's the big man then) with just a different set of pre-installed packages and visuals.
Post edited April 23, 2016 by clarry
Posted April 23, 2016
great, now galaxy please ;)
Posted April 23, 2016
I've forgot... When The Witcher 3 will be available on SteamOS / Linux ?
Posted April 23, 2016
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clarry: I wonder if we'll see the day when every reasonably well supported distro is basically rhel/fedora (or whoever's the big man then) with just a different set of pre-installed packages and visuals.
That's the day I switch from Devuan to one of the BSDs.
Posted April 23, 2016
Nice to see GOG.com continuing their Linux efforts.

But as it has been said many times already now, I also think it would be even better if GOG.com expand their portfolio of Linux games.
Posted April 23, 2016
Thank you GOG.
Posted April 23, 2016
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d3v14n7: Can someone explain the reasoning for the classification of "Ubuntu" in place of "Debian" for the family of OSes mentioned?

Is there something Canonical-specific to OSes like "Mint" that would class it as "Ubuntu" family over "Debian" family?
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Gydion: The fact that Mint is a direct Ubuntu derivative. Ubuntu itself derives from Debian.
And that Ubuntu has separated itself enough from Debian by now that it isn't quite as clear as it was back at Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy.
Post edited April 23, 2016 by Maighstir
Posted April 23, 2016
Thanks GOG team
Posted April 23, 2016
Thank you GOG!
Posted April 23, 2016
Great to see extended support for Linux, now we just need more Linux and Linux versions of games released here!
Post edited April 23, 2016 by JogsterXL
Posted April 24, 2016
Thank you, GOG! :) You are awesome.
Posted April 24, 2016
Howdy GOG ;P
Just came to ask if you folks intend to provide us with some more gog-o-tastic Linux goodness much like you guys did with Flatout, Baldurs and others.
Thanks ;)
Posted April 24, 2016
I'm very glad to hear you are continuing, expanding and keeping up-to-date your support of Linux. :-) I don't mind concentrating support on selected distribution. Time and money is important for everyone, not just business types. Even if you are doing open source programs for free, it's better to spend your time on making your app secure, QA and developing useful features, than ensuring compatibilty with esoteric distributions and twenty different sound and graphics layers. Big OSS companies like RedHat and Fedora, and OSS developers hired/supported by companies like Intel or Google also need to get paid, so money and time is always important. Anyway, cheers for GOG, and I hope you and game devs will keep supporting Linux on GOG. At least please bring Linux version to GOG if you have one on Steam or Humble Bundle already!
Post edited April 24, 2016 by tmisiu
Posted April 24, 2016
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JudasIscariot: *Personally*speaking, I would much rather have us do Arch (and Arch accessories :P) support...

Call it "trial by fire" support: before you can play your games you must install Arch the PURE way, no exceptions :D
How about making that Linux from Scratch? From stage 1!

Actually, I'm running i3 on Arch with two screens. I'm not going back to KDE any time soon.

I hope I'll see GOG continuing to support Linux gaming. I only joined because of it.

However, I must add that looking at like [url=https://www.gog.com/mix/games_supporting_linux_on_steam_not_on_gog]these make me sad. Especially when multiple games I want are in it. The end result is that I am much more hesitant to acquire Linux-unsupported games. Maybe the Linux version will be added in the future (unlikely, it seems), or maybe I can acquire them DRM-free somewhere else. Or maybe I can get adequate entertainment with the games I already own — yeah, that is a crazy thought.
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