> There's a whole load of games from GOG that you can already play on linux, be it throuhg the PlayOnLinux project or by using Dosbox. Yeah but for those that

> There's a whole load of games from GOG that you can already play on linux, be it throuhg the PlayOnLinux project or by using Dosbox. Yeah but for those that have no native linux clients that's not an officially supported way to play them, neither from GOG nor from other retailers. The reason it matters is not for people like the typical HN user but for, say, my dad which is now using a linux laptop and plays some GOG games on it from "his past" but isn't technical enough to know how to fix it when there is a slight unimportant mis-configuration. If I wasn't there, he wouldn't be able to.