Hello everybody,

is there an ETA for the GOG Galaxy client release as of yet?

Not that we're aware of. You may want to follow up this discussion in the sticky about the topic:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_official_discussion_thread

There's a customer supported downloader if that helps:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/lgogdownloader_gogdownloader_for_linux

Hope this helps

you can use this for time being
https://snapcraft.io/gog-galaxy-wine

GOG has spoken about this in the past although I don't recall if it was in forum posts, video commentary or other media. The long and the short of it though is that they allocate their finite developer resources to implementing features and functionality in Galaxy client and back end services that give the best bang for the engineering resources and monetary investment, and a Linux client isn't yet their biggest priority as a result.

There is one thing all of us Linux fans can do though to help out to make this a reality, which is for everyone who does want to see a Linux client to actively use as many games as possible in Linux and to engage in positive proactive advocacy of the Linux platform for gaming, encouraging others to do so as well. If the percentage of users using Linux for gaming increases it may reach a threshold where it becomes economically viable to commit developer resources to building and supporting the Linux client versus the development of some other feature/functionality.

From a pure practical standpoint though I suspect it will be a few years off yet to come but we'll have to wait and see. A spike in Linux gaming uptake could change that, but sadly it just hasn't happened in the order of magnitude necessary to make it a priority in the industry yet. We're slowly getting there though A decade or more ago it was a fantasy idea, now it's approaching feasibility for more and more software! Yay us! :)

Everyone interested should be sure to vote for a Linux client on the community wishlist in the mean time, to help indicate customer interest to GOG so they can weigh in when it makes sense to dedicate resources to the effort.

There is also Comet, which aims to emulate some of the things Galaxy does.

I would love to see a Linux version of Galaxy happening. I am sure one of many people that use Windows only for playing video games.

Yeah, GOG's development of Galaxy feels a bit like those dev's that promise Linux support, and then write the game using DirectX.

Need Galaxy for Linux,please!!!
Not today but...one day ^^
So much games without Linux support here because no Galaxy.
Gog is better so why you force me to give my money to Steam?

Galaxy uses the Google Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) as its web backend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework#Applications_using_CEF
If they have N developers and they can work on a feature that benefits 30-90% or more of the userbase, the money spent working on that feature benefits many more customers and thus makes the software more useful, drawing more business to the platform versus allocating the same resources to developing a Linux client for less than 1% of users. It's a matter of allocating finite resources to projects/features that give the best overall benefits to the customer base as a whole, and to the company.

So it's not a matter of forcing anyone to use Steam, just logical business economics.

Logical business economics,yep!
Fuck logical business economics!
Money first then living beings...great logic!
It's the reason why the planet is dying /:
And us without natural resources=no food,no home,no energy=oops,we are dying too!
No problem!
I don't care about DRM free hypocrites anymore...
If you really want to defend the freedom of choice,you do Linux...DRM free for Windows is a waste.
Oh and DRM free with Galaxy only features...let me laugh!
GOG was better years ago...

I believe everybody gets what they deserve. After they did the full transformation into Steams little buddy many will ask themselves why they use the little buddy when you can use the real thing. It's called "free global trade" which sounds good but means every little vendor and his product has to compete with the world. Well, at least it saves the customer from monopolistic prices a while until Steam inevietable wins the price war and they go belly up.
I hope they never do the full transformation though, but the day the "offline backup installers" are no longer available and/or the single player portion of the game is in some way crippled too, the time has come.
I really hope there are people at GOG who believe in this causality chain, but seeing "OMFG short time economics rules", I won't hold my breath.
There was a mix once. Back then higher groups did the economics but threw the lower groups some bones too (and in this case, no I don't mean a few free games, I mean keeping your principles). Today it's all greed on every level. See you at fallout IRL. If I don't hit the road before that lol

@AlienMind Alas,all what you said is so true...
I loved to be able to "own" my games ^^
I know...HERESY!

Now,I'm just going back to Steam...slowly and with a heavy heart.
Because I'll never accept to use Windows 10 and Linux is not greatly supported here.
A lot of Linux games are DRM free on Steam,you only need to download them via the Steam bloated client...a lesser evil than Windows 10+DRM free games on GOG in my eyes.

And yes...see you soon in a Fallout world ...