I fear that many future games on Linux will be steambox/steam only. If the vast majority of entertainment software is doomed to be tied to steam in the future, then it does not matter what platform the games run on.

The whole point with Linux is freedom and to be in complete control of your OS - and as i see it, Steam is exactly the opposite of that. It does not help to migrate to a new open OS, if the games ported to that OS still is tied down by the same restrictive activation and DRM based client.

At least the indies will also be available on the Humble Store which does Steam versions and versions free of DRM. That's where I will spend my money. Not Steam. Not GOG.

More hope, more tears?

He's not dismissing it?

That may indicate that gog have something in their 'skunk works'.
Since it is pure speculation for now, it's still too early to really get exited about.

Perhaps Crytek officially supporting Linux gave GOG the push it needed?

It would be a good way to win back some hearts and minds after all the recent arguing. Dosbox games and many indies already work so it's just about getting people who know Linux and can do support and make installers.

I agree with others that I won't get my hopes up just yet but I am glad they seem to be giving it serious consideration.

DOSBox games ought to be pretty easy for them to do, most or all of the tweaks that work for Windows should work on Linux as well. There's 3rd party install tools that are cross-distro as well.

I think the bigger hold up is that they don't have the test environments yet and would need to get somebody to support it. But, in my experience, Linux has a lot more consistency than Windows does in terms of how things run.