GOG has always been my first choice when buying games. Over the past 14 years, I’ve bought 296 games on GOG and just 14 on Steam.

But that’s slowly starting to change, because Steam supports Linux better than GOG.

Just look at it: after all these years, there is still no GOG Galaxy client for Linux, whereas Steam has long had its own client for every Linux distribution.

I still can’t run the ‘Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition’, which I bought on GOG, neither for Linux nor for Windows/Wine. And GOG isn’t fixing the bugs in its installer. Meanwhile, those who bought the same game on Steam have no trouble playing it. And to be honest, I’m waiting for a sale to buy “Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition” on Steam. If it turns out that the Steam version works and the GOG version doesn’t, it will be a huge blow to GOG’s credibility and a reason to consider whether it might be safer to buy games on Steam rather than on GOG.

This makes me very sad, as I’m a huge fan of playing completely offline and DRM-free games. But what’s the point of a game being DRM-free if it doesn’t work and I can’t play it?

BGEE works on Windows. Gog have a dedicated service for ensuring their games work on their customers' computers, providing they are installed on a compatible OS. Even though the version of Windows is updated frequently, most software is mostly backwards-compatible with earlier versions, still.

Why can't you play BGEE on your Windows OS? That should be an easy fix to implement.

I have since stopped using offline Linux installers because of this. It's much easier just to run the Windows version with a WINE prefix. GOG could resolve this, but they just do the bare minimum when it comes to Linux. Steam Linux support is a bit better, but in there you are also using mostly just WINE (or rather Proton).

The latest 2.7 of the EE games do seems to work in Fedora 44 at least.