GOG.com Ditches Password-Protected Archives for the Sake of Linux Users

The Linux community has pressured the GOG developers to remove the password-protected archives that were present in a number of their games, making the contents of those titles accessible to all the platforms.

The Linux platform is all about openness and you rarely stumble upon protected archives. Almost any kind of installers or archives can be extracted with just a click and the support for pretty much all the formats is usually provided by default. That means users don't need to install third-party applications to handle archives, although there are plenty available. Everything is handled natively.

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