Im using my steam deck a lot and i really like linux. But Gog doesn’t care about Linux users. I’m tend to buy more games from steam now because of that. Hopefully they change their stance

You can download the games right from a web browser anyways. Or you can use something like Heroic Launcher.

But as for why GOG doesn't. It's unlikely to be a good business decision to support it with GOG Galaxy. They made $1.2 Million in profit last year, with Linux gaming being about 1% of PC gaming market share, that would mean about at best they would get about $12,000 in profit, but not really, because it would cost them than significantly more than $12,000 per year to create and support a linux version of the client.

GOG does support Linux. It's just the Galaxy client that doesn't.

Anyway, Linux runs most Windows games fine so it kind of doesn't matter.

So how should i do it? Downloading the installs and start them with wine? Problem is i want to acces my cloud saves

That's what I've been doing for the past 4 years. Albeit I'd recommend Wine Staging over regular Wine for people who aren't all that keen into using Proton but still want a more "patched up" experience. With rsync you can sort of make your own "cloud saves" if you have a NAS. Arguably it's more of a pain, but then again so is using clients.

Also, I've heard good things about the Heroic launcher (which supports Linux), but I'm not sure if it handles saves.

They do support linux, you can even check the upcoming games section and see what is coming down the line.

Linux users already do a lot of the work for them, so the return on investment would be minimal. Lutris already does a pretty good job, though I don't see why Galaxy couldn't take the parts of Proton that are under the LGPL and BSD license and use those.

But many Linux users are paranoid about privacy and might steer away from Galaxy even if it were implemented correctly. The good thing about the "backup" installers is that it provides some independence.

Ah!, but how many multi-operating system games that are released on other stores that have a Linux version, release it on GoG ?. Not many, I can tell you. Just read the reviews of those games here on GoG...

https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/1495670845334822912
They never redacted/addressed this episode that I could find, or even tried (at least publicly) improving their support for Linux, so I'd imagine the stance is still similar.

It is rather sad the support isn't better. Though they selected basically a generally well accepted version (and compatible types) of Ubuntu as a base, and it works fairly well from what i saw. Though i only got 3 games to really work (dosbox related ones, Shenzen/IO, and Fez).

This might be because the lack of say Vulcan or something, though not seeing it.

Curiously did get Minecraft to work on linux, so there's that. On chromebooks no less.

Well removing General Linux FAQ and Troubleshooting from STICKY post is not a good sign...

And somehow i don't think i'm getting the linux version for XCOM: Enemy Unknown that is available on steam.

Correct. But again, does it matter? In some ways the Windows versions are better because you have WINE to support them as the games age. In the case of native apps, if they use system libraries that get phased out over time (Like what happened with Baldur's Gate EE) the native games break just like they do on Windows when newer versions of the OS no longer use the old libraries.

This is one of the reasons ROMS are sometimes nicer to run than PC games. You can just use the latest emulator for your system rather than trying to run an ancient app natively.

I dont like wine and prefer native versions. I may as well use windows if I am going to get the windows version.

OK. The game plays exactly the same either way so I don't care much if I run the Windows version. They're all x86 apps really. Not much difference.

That isn't always the case. I've used a number of games on both Windows and Linux (via W.I.N.E), and in many cases (but not all) the game performs better via W.I.N.E than when run in Windows. Less or no crashing, can appear smoother (less jittery), and you don't have to deal with all the other idiosyncrasies that Window throws your way. Like slow boot-up, nagging and ridiculously slow and all consuming updates, having to constantly swap operating systems depending on which game one wishes to run, the in-built spyware, and just the general sluggishness of the whole Windows ecosystem, that has been getting worse as newer versions are released. Oh, and some don't have access to or the funds to purchase a copy of Windows, so, there's that...