How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux? : linux

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago

This is what keeps me on Steam, along with Steam Input and Big Picture

[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is UI for GOG? We have a Heroic Game Launcher. It can work with GOG.

[–] formerlytomato@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imho, if they decide to put effort into Linux, I'd rather see them put dev resources into heroic to add these features than to make just another client. They are late to the market, that would make the most of it.

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[–] DioEgizio@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago

You can use heroic I guess...

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

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

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Because cdpr is a joke. Like did you see cyberpunks release? All they care is about money they showed that with their rushed job. I haven't claimed any free games on GOG because you have to sign up for their newsletter in order to claim the game. I still get spammed with emails from GOG even after unsubscribing after I receive every single email. At this point of just marked em' as spam.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are also GUI launchers that can download from GOG:

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

https://lutris.net/about

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 day ago

We got Minigalaxy

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

https://www.zoom-platform.com/

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CDPR suck.

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[+] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works -16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] bisby@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You may not agree, but some people actually like the platform integration features that Galaxy and Steam and the like provide. Cloud sync and achievements and things that you may not care about are important to other people.

And then there's just the whole "They said they would, and this is not very reassuring about their commitment to Linux users."

[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate you answering my question.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

If third party launchers were as good as the first party ones, we wouldn't.

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[+] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org -7 points 1 day ago (1 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).

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I found Heroic today. Same games that won't run on Lutris won't run on Heroic either. The biggest disappointment was that it crashed a few times and I gave up entirely when it froze up. I'm not saying Lutris is flawless, it certainly isn't, but my experience overall has at least been acceptable.

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