Thank you. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart want GOG to support Linux, hence all the effort. I pretty much have the English speaking Linux users covered. If only somebody could reach out to the German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and Polish speaking Linux users. My apologies if you are a Linux user reading this but I did not include your language. Linux users must band together and vote on this like crazy. GOG needs to pay attention and they will when the numbers are right.

20,000 sounds like a realistic goal :)

I get that GOG wants to support Linux "properly", but I don't get why they won't at least start providing limited support as a beta feature available only to users that opt-in to it first.

GOG has previously indicated that they're not opposed to providing alpha/beta software with limited support like this (e.g.: this site as a whole back when it was in beta, the "early betas"/prototypes provided as extras with some games and the survey they did a while ago asking about providing games that are still in alpha/beta state), so I don't see why they couldn't do this with Linux support. Especially since users would specifically have to opt-in to it first with the understanding that support would be limited.

This would be a good thing for everyone - those of us willing to cope with limited support get the DRM-free Linux versions of games where available and GOG can get feedback from us to help them determine exactly which distro(s) they want to support, how they want to package their games when they're ready to provide full support, identify common issues and how to overcome them etc.

It's a shame that there are so many developers promising Linux support now, yet as they're mainly targeting GOG and Steam this leaves us with a choice between a DRM-free version of a game on a DRM'ed platform or a Linux version with Steam DRM :/

It's a very good question which was raised here before. GOG declined to comment, as usual. I wish GOG would become more community friendly like before and would comment on these issues more often.

Here I am playing Legend of Grimrock through POL/wine while a native versions exists... :/

I got the native Linux version of Legend of Grimrock with one of the Humble Bundles. It works fine.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/legendofgrimrock

I'm sure it works fine.. I'm just not going to buy it again. Bought it on GOG on release and didn't even know they had a linux version coming.

When I got it, it was on sale and part of the bundle so it was a good deal. I never got it on GOG, so it wasn't double paying. Alternatively, there is a proposal to unify HB and GOG ownership somehow, since that already happens for example between HB and Steam (they call it "key redeeming"). Something like that can be potentially set up between GOG and HB. It can be a great workaround for Linux versions available on HB, which have Windows / Mac OSX only versions on GOG.

https://secure.gog.com/wishlist/site/collaboration_with_humble_indie_bundle

As much as I would love to have GGG support running games in Linux, I don't see it really happening any time soon.

I do have a simple proposal as a "band-aid" to running the DOS era games on Linux: for games that run in DOSBox, add a little burb after the system requirements saying this game runs in X version of DOSBox. It gives us the best supported version and after a few config edits those games should work just fine. Think of it as unofficial support.

Yeah, at least GOG can start with indicating that some games are using DosBox / ScummVM or they are native games.

See this proposal https://secure.gog.com/wishlist/site/show_which_games_use_dosbox_or_scummvm
Adding a compatible version would also be helpful. But, it's more of a convenience. A quick search by game title will provide you all the information. Whether the game works with DosBox, what version and etc. So it could be nice for GOG to help with that, but it's not a major issue at all. The lack of native Linux games is a major issue.

GOG will never take any action that could be interpreted by any person as in any way, shape or form being good for Linux or Linux gamers.

Sounds too radical. GOG aren't specifically sabotaging any Linux efforts.

No, but they go out of their way in not helping in even the smallest possible way and set up bizarre hypothetical scenarios as reasons for not supporting Linux.

Would you care to elaborate on this?

Metro: Last Light has been confirmed for Linux. Yet another developer/publisher adds Linux support for what seems to be the most technically advanced game for Linux yet. Doesn't GOG feel encouraged by all this support happening around it?