I realize that countless people have asked for Galaxy to come to Linux already, but I just wanted to let the developers know why bringing Galaxy to Linux would be such a significant move for me personally.

Over the years I have grown a tremendous love for Linux, and have grown and even greater dislike for Windows operating systems and Microsoft's business practices as a whole. I've actually been wanting to make the move to Linux for the last 10+ years, but there's always been one major thing holding back this dream. Gaming.

I realize that Linux supports a number of games at this point, and many people have suggested running a virtual machine in Linux, or playing my games through WINE, but unfortunately that can't happen for two reasons.

#1. If I make the move to Linux, I want nothing to do with Windows, and that includes having to install a virtual machine within Linux. There's no point in making the move to Linux if it still requires me using Windows for gaming.

#2. I'm really not all that experienced using Linux, so I don't think I could get WINE (or any other tweaking option) to work properly. I'm also not interested in having to put in that much work to get me games to work. I am very grateful to all of the Linux users who are working on solving these issues within the Linux community, but it's just not for me.

This is why I would love to see GOG Galaxy ported to Linux. It's literally the only thing holding me back from permanently making the move to Linux. Every other program I use (VLC Player, Handbrake, Libre Office, etc) already exists on Linux, but there's no way that I can make the move completely without GOG on board. Let's make it happen.

You could always try setting up a dual boot system. I'm not that tech savvy but I tried it once and if I remember correctly it's not overly hard to do.

Personally I don't see the point. If I end up making the move to Linux, I want it to be the only operating system that I use.

Do you expect Galaxy for Linux will make all non-Linux games suddenly work on that system?

Do you realize it works almost like that with Steam? They integrated Proton so well, that I sometimes not sure am I playing Linux version or Proton-Wine packed one.

I saw this one recently. I has some goods reviews, but I haven't personally tried it.
MiniGalaxy (Github)

Great for Steam users, sure. But how does that translate to Galaxy on Linux having the same capabilities?

How does that realization change anything for GOG games? Are all those Proton-Wine packed games DRM free?

Good point. I guess I'm hoping that the implementation of Galaxy on Linux will encourage the game developers to support Linux. I'm sure that the list of Linux supported games on GOG will continue to grow. I do appreciate what Steam is doing, but I strongly dislike Steam's stand on DRM, so I rarely use them.

Well, I don’t feel like we’re missing anything due to the lack of Galaxy on Linux.

We already have much better tools to manage our games, including several ones that are focused on non-technical users like ./play.it or Adamhm's Linux Wine Wrappers.

It's great that there are alternatives like these on Linux, but I would much rather have Galaxy as my main client.

That is understandable, in order not to divide hard drive space between two OSes etc.

Anyway, I am in that situation on e.g. this PC (now writing this from Linux Mint, doing my work on the side as well, hey even Skype works great on Linux!). Linux Mint and Windows 7 installed side by side (on separate hard drives). The reasons I boot up the Windows (7) are:

1. Gaming. Most of my games are in the Windows partition, and also in many cases the "Linux versions" of games means it is really the Windows version running in WINE, giving somewhat poorer performance.

I have no issue whatsoever playing e.g. TeamFortress 2 on Linux with Steam, but when I tried to run e.g. the Linux version of GOG Two Worlds (which apparently is simply the Windows version running in WINE), it failed to run due to some wrong library dependency etc., and the only way to run the game on Linux was to install the Windows version on WINE myself, but for some reason I didn't get the audio to work, it is totally silent...

So in this sense, MAYBE Linux Galaxy might make Linux gaming less of a hassle. At least Steam has apparently succeeded in that.

2. 7-zip. While I can operate .7z archives in Linux command line, some things are easier to perform with the 7-zip graphical user interface, and so far I haven't found a suitable graphical archiver for Linux that understands 7-zip archives. (If someone knows one, let me know. I wish there was a Linux version of the official graphical 7-zip application.)

3. FlickFetch. It is a freeware program to download TV series and movies from certain (Finnish) TV channels on the internet so that I can watch them offline. A VCR of a modern age, it even strips out TV commercials (ie. doesn't include them). I guess I could run this in WINE, but...

4. Microsoft Teams. God damn it, people are increasingly using this instead of Skype, and I am not aware of a Linux version of Teams (while Skype works great on Linux, IMHO even better than on Windows, imagine that!). So when we recently had the housing company meeting in Teams (due to corona) and I received a web link to connect to the meeting "with your browser", it wouldn't work on Linux with Firefox or Chromium, but insisted that I must use either Edge or the official Chrome to connect to Teams. Phuck it, I had to boot to Windows then.

It is a sad fact that if you want a totally hassle free gaming experience you either have to use Windows (and not even there always) or accept that quite a few games will not be playable.

Correct me if I'm wrong but, doesn't Lutris allow its users to import games from their gog libraries?