ORIGINAL OPENING POST:Hello fellow Linux users!I use innoextract ( http://constexpr.org/innoextract/ ) to extract Windows GOG installers on my Linux gaming rig. But a change has come here: newest installers use RAR archiving (the .bin is a RAR archive), that innoextract can’t extract. I tried extracting directly the .bin, but it is password-protected.dscharrer, the innoextract main developer, said he won’t try to support this format:Has someone any idea how to extract these new installersgoing through WINE?-----QUICK SUMMARY OF THE MATTER AT HAND:In some of my free time spent unpacking GOG installers tu turn them into Linux stuff, I found out GOG is switching to a new kind of Windows installer. These new installers use a password-check at extracting time.While this check is done automatically and silently while executing the installer, it adds some work to people wanting to work with these installers in a less standard way, for reasons including (but not limited to) backup of game data, getting the game to run on unsupported platforms, making custom installers/archives…The password has been discovered thanks to the work of a couple talented hackers, and now the discussion as turned to:_Why did GOG start using this new method?_Would they consider dropping it?-----ANSWER FROM A GOG PROGRAMMER (a technical answer, he doesn’t speak for GOG.com here):-----THE OFFICIAL GOG.COM ANSWER:-----WISHLIST ENTRY:Here is a wishlist entry opened by shmerl, if you too think this inclusion of password checks in the new installers is anything but good practice:-----WORKING WITH THE NEW INSTALLERS:The technical discussion about this issue should move to another thread, seeing as this one is already discussing the moral implications of this new GOG choice. If you don’t care about wether or not these new installers are a good/bad practice, but you want to discuss on the ways to work with it, there you go: