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PC Gamer
Joshua Wolens

GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!'

N364709 03: Actor Patrick Stewart talks with Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, addresses the crowd during the launching of Windows 2000 in San Francisco on February 17, 2000.

"Windows sucks" feels like one of the most uncontroversial statements you can make online these days. Between AI guff, constant upselling (would you like to purchase an Office 365 subscription? No? Okay I'll ask again tomorrow), and myriad other reasons to be sick to the back teeth of Microsoft, it kind of feels like we're all trapped beating on the glass of an OS determined to make itself worse with every update (well, I'm not: I installed Linux).

At least it's not just you and me. Over the course of a wide-ranging chat about GOG's now-independent future, I asked new owner Michał Kiciński and managing director Maciej Gołębiewski if the storefront had much interest in the ongoing backlash against Windows and gamers' embrace—however small—of Linux. I got, well, two answers.

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