[HN Gopher] GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's su...
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GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality
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Author : truxs
Score : 24 points
Date : 2026-01-14 20:28 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| rolph wrote:
| any word on GOG offering links to upgrade to linux, i think it
| would speed things up, right now we are almost at the part where
| the mortally wounded leviathan trashes everything about in its
| final death throes.
|
| it really would be nice for early emancipators to have a
| comfortable landing, and avoid being subject to collateral
| damage.
| TheCycoONE wrote:
| I suspect they would put out a GOG Galaxy that works on Linux
| well before promoting it on their web site that aggressively.
| tracker1 wrote:
| I'm not familiar enough beyond casual use of Steam on Linux and
| a few one-offs to know the current state of gaming... but can
| only posit that a GoG installer/launcher for Linux that uses
| Proton (like Steam) wouldn't hurt.
| mepian wrote:
| There is the Heroic Game Launcher that also interfaces with
| the Epic Games Store.
| legitster wrote:
| So part of me agrees, but part of me also feels like a victim of
| the boy who cried wolf.
|
| People have ragged on Windows going back for as long as I can
| remember. Only in hindsight did people ever express fondness in
| public for Windows XP (and maybe a bit for Windows 7). It's hard
| for me to distinguish how much of the vitriol is legitimate this
| time from developers, or will nostalgia glasses just haunt
| Windows forever.
|
| I've been using Windows 11 and... it feels fine? If anything, it
| doesn't feel substantially different enough from Windows 10 to
| care. My other comparison points are a Macbook and a Steam Deck,
| and both of them have so many faults of their own that I don't
| understand the need to rag on Windows in particular.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| I was there when XP came out and it was clearly better than any
| of the entries in the two "parents" that it replaced (NT/Win2k,
| and 9X/ME). I was the local "hey, my PC is broken" guy and the
| first thing to try was always to replace whatever version of
| windows they had with XP.
|
| I certainly have some anti-fondness memories as well (I had the
| service pack burned to a CD because it took longer to download
| and install the updates than it did to get infected with one of
| the various worms around at the time), but there was zero doubt
| in my mind that XP was the best windows yet when it came out.
| AlienRobot wrote:
| Well, that's because 11 and 10 are similar while being
| substantially worse than XP.
| bsder wrote:
| > Only in hindsight did people ever express fondness in public
| for Windows XP (and maybe a bit for Windows 7).
|
| I don't agree. Those of us using it for embedded development
| skipped from XP to 7 to 10.
|
| Windows XP started off a bit rough. Once it had some time to
| mature, nobody in their right mind wanted to go back to Windows
| 95/98/9x, though.
|
| Windows 7 was _definitely_ lauded as decent contemporaneously.
| Vista was a disaster by comparison (but a necessary one--Vista
| took the arrows to allow Windows 7 to appear). And lot of
| people avoided Windows 8 like the plague it was.
|
| Windows 10 was definitely a step back from 7, but wasn't ...
| terrible? Especially relative to Windows 8. But Windows 10
| definitely wasn't _genuinely good_ on any axis. And everybody
| was constantly bitching about all the stuff that was clearly
| the beginning of enshittification that got turned to maximum on
| 11.
| joe_guy wrote:
| > would you like to purchase an Office 365 subscription? No? Okay
| I'll ask again tomorrow),
|
| Ironic, given their website showed me two unrequested popups.
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