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From their about-page:
We make games last forever
A home for building and playing your curated game collection, GOG is a digital distribution platform that puts gamers first and respects their need to own games.
GOG.com is Part of Polish CD PROJEKT group.
I’m not disagreeing, but Steam went out of their way to support Linux because they needed to, when they first dipped their toes in selling hardware (Steam Machine, circa 2013 I think).
GOG had no incentive to do so when Linux gaming was such a small slice of their pie. And now that it’s growing fast, they still have no incentive to do so, because third parties are already doing the work for them.
At the end of the day, we gamers are still the beneficiaries of the immense effort of CDPR, Valve, and the whole open source community.
They didn’t need to, they could have built SteamOS on top of Windows (much worse, but probably still acceptable given the Decks competition that runs Windows).