Quoting: AnonymousGoG is great for old Windows games, I give them that. But the way they handled this story, with one lame comment, borderline insulting if you know a bit about Linux, is a deal breaker for me for a long time to come.

In reply to this, and previous commenters who asked, why the question of Linux support on GOG is still active. The answer is rather simple - GOG is second biggest digital distributor after Steam, and in contrast with Steam it's principally DRM free. GOG don't position themselves as targeted for old games exclusively anymore. They are directly competing with Steam already and bring more and more new games.

So to answer the questions above - if you want DRM free gaming on Linux, you should support the idea of Linux games on GOG. Steam is not an option, since I highly doubt they'll drop DRM any time soon - they are too entangled with DRM obsessed publishers, and dropping DRM would mean removing all DRMed games from the catalog, or convincing dumb publishers to allow their games to be sold without DRM, which is a huge task and Valve doesn't seem to be even interested to bother.

If GOG would start supporting Linux, they can even allocate resources to actually port games to Linux. If Humble Bundle managed to do it, surely GOG can do it too.

Why it can take them a long time - GOG are perfectionists. I personally think it has a lot of downsides, but that's how they operate. They don't use agile releases and beta features. They take their time to develop something before releasing it. They have several R&D projects for 2013, one of which can as well be Linux support. The fact that "Steam does it" doesn't mean they are doing it very well. Pulling a massive runtime to enable some game is not really an ideal option.

And indeed, GOG expressed their interest in supporting Linux before.

Quoting: frostworkAs this wasn't mentioned yet, you might be interested in
http://www.gogonlinux.com (not too active, afaik it's only one developer)
and
https://sites.google.com/site/gogdownloader
I try to keep them both more or less up2date in the gentoo gamerlay btw

I prefer the second one.
Project site: https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader
Announcements thread: https://secure.gog.com/forum/general/lgogdownloader_gogdownloader_for_linux

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