GOG.com, a site that specializes in selling classic PC games for modern computers, has decided to support Linux after all.
GOG says it has been working on Linux support for the last few months, and will add support for the Ubuntu and Mint Linux distributions this fall with at least 100 games at launch. This not only includes classic games that ran on Linux originally, but games that never had official Linux support to begin with.
Last September, GOG spokesman Trevor Longino said the company wasn’t planning to offer Linux support. He told GamingOnLinux that the “architecture of Linux, with many common distros, each of them updating fairly often,” would make it Linux support incredibly difficult without sacrificing customer service.
“Sure, we could probably release a client and sell the games and let Linux users worry about the rest,” Longino said. “We don’t consider it, however, a viable option for the business model we have followed so far.”
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