How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux? : linux

[+] [email protected] -15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

We don't need third party launchers to buy or play their games. Why do you want this?

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I used to purchase everything I could from GOG until I switched to Linux full time. I still like the company and buy some from them, but until they become more Linux friendly or Steam gets worse I'll still prioritize Steam now. And it's not only the (very odd) resistance to making a Linux version of Galaxy, I've also seen them not offer Linux versions of games even when the developers have released it on other platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

We got Minigalaxy

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Because GOG doesn't want to support it. They'd rather the community do it.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Maybe the author of the article/blog doesn’t know about Heroic?

They mention lutris, but note that it isn’t a functional equivalent to Galaxy. But as far as I’m aware, Heroic is (correct me if I’m wrong, I haven’t seen Galaxy in action).

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's an open-source CLI client to download GOG games, lgogdownloader. It's packaged in Debian.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are also GUI launchers that can download from GOG:

https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/

https://lutris.net/about

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (12 children)

IIRC GOG is actually partnered with HeroicLauncher... so.. it's semi official to use that... and better UX.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Affiliate links are not business partnerships. Does Heroic have anything more than that with GOG?

EDIT: The answer is no, GOG is not partnered with Heroic Games Launcher.

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[+] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I get into this on the post, but AFAIK community-built solutions such as Heroic and Lutris aren't exactly the same, with a lot of Galaxy's selling points being the cloud features such as save data sync and a friends list system for online play.

Different people may or may not find uses for these features, but it's still worth discussing IMO.

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