How is GOG Galaxy Still Not On Linux? : linux

[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Honestly what's the point in having it? Heroic is already a better option. GOG Galaxy is a simple launcher, if they port it to Linux then it would also need to be a Wine/Proton prefix manager. Its not a massive amount of work, especially since umu-launcher exists now, but its just pointless effort IMO. Unless they're willing to invest the same amount of work into it that has gone into Heroic and Lutris, it'll just end up being the inferior option.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 months ago

We got Minigalaxy

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There are also GUI launchers that can download from GOG:

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

https://lutris.net/about

[+] Lemmist@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] Durandal@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago

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

[-] hellofriend@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I wouldn't call HGL a better UX. It straight up doesn't work for me. When it did, I couldn't get games to install or update and had to DL manually in browser, install into some other Wine prefix, and then manually move the files to an HGL-generated prefix. The UI looks nicer but it's not nearly as straightforward as Galaxy's. It's more like Lutris in its complexity, though I imagine there's no easy way around that.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Better UX is a big word, as any unofficial launcher it kinda sucks because it doesn’t have a specific feature set. Besides, first party support is always better

[-] iusearchbtw@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

heroic has no download throttling, very annoying for shared/shitty networks and large games

[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you're on Linux, you have a lot more options to affect the system. You could try running Heroic Launcher through trickle: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34116/how-can-i-limit-the-bandwidth-used-by-a-process

Ideally this would be implemented on the client side, i.e. Heroic Launcher, but there seems to some challenges in making that happen: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/597

[-] iusearchbtw@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

bit late to this, but trickle doesn't work because heroic spawns new downloader processes unaffected by trickle's limits

[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hm, if it spawns some external process, would it be possible to wrap that in a shell script of the same name (and have its dir earlier in PATH), which in turn calls the other one, but through trickle?

[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today -1 points 4 months ago

That's neat to learn

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[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

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

[-] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works -2 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I like having all my games in one place, on a platform where Linux “just works” and I don’t have to fuck around with it.

Eliminating third-party launchers sounds great in theory until you have 20 different half-baked second party launchers that serve no purpose other than being a barrier between me and the games.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 4 months ago

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 0 points 4 months ago

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.

[+] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org -7 points 4 months ago

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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