On MODERN operating systems. Not old unsupported junk like Windows 8. Ask Valve (and it's "lawsuit", not "law suite"). GOG doesn't have any problems like that. As long as you've downloaded your game (just use a web browser), nobody can take it away and you don't need anything other than the game itself to play it. You REALLY should not be throwing around accusations when you failed to understand any basic information here.

People like the features clients provide. The vast, vast majority do. Just because you do not doesn't mean fuck all.

2.2 gigabytes RAM, and that's only because I'm watching a livestream at the moment. It's nice. I could comfortably fit a session into 600 MB if I really stripped it to the bare paint.

Well, can't blame him. That giant blue button is very misleading.

It uses less than 370MB of RAM in the background counting all tasks, and at idle 0% CPU, and no disk use at all.

There was good old gog downloader , eated like 40mb ram and did just what evrybody wanted ...even on win7,

they could just update it with updated crypto library needed for authentifications and its all good, no new unnecesary bs features needed

Not hard work for any decent programmer....

But they want just push bloated client, so they can push some advertisement :/

Offline dowloads thru browser are pain in ass to use , insult in 2023 (when game size can be100gb+)

Bring back gog downloader!

Many MODERN players like to have launchers and community features.

Us oldies don't.

Gogdownloader is gone and won't come back.

Try gogrepoc.
I have that running on a weak machine (Synology server) and it works very well. Seome scripts help of course.

Swearing isn't helpful.

Other users have provided you with the answer, but seriously, I'm not going to help people who swear at me.

All-4-One - I Swear (Official)

Uninstall it and it won't use any resources. You will find that many GOG users actually oppose any efforts to make Galaxy more necessary, including myself.

Anyway, the thread title will lead to the deletion of this thread.

No company can support an internet-based application on an abandoned operating system forever. If you get hacked via Galaxy, GOG would be to blame. Steam is no different.

Go and download offline installers and play your games on XP, if you really want to. There is, but it is "minimised" by default in a desperate attempt to push Galaxy onto users. Make sure to EXPAND the DOWNLOAD OFFLINE BACKUP INSTALLERS section (See attachment).

Now onto the heated "Yes" "no" argument that has emerged here.

I can understand an urge to do a smug response and blame the user, I think it is important to point out that GOG, just like many other tech companies use perception to create this problem.

There is a giant attention-grabbing blue download button for Galaxy and a tiny MINIMISED BY DEFAULT section called "DOWNLOAD OFFLINE BACKUP INSTALLERS" that does not even look like a button. Naturally this tricks people into missing it and that is so very clearly the intent.

It's like Microsoft with a giant Microsoft account button, while the "no thanks" is hidden behind a tiny "more options" expansion button somewhere else. It's like an old-school file hosting site with a giant green "download adware here" button and a tiny "download the actual thing you want button" somewhere on the bottom right.

Those of us who have spent our childhoods navigating these stupid perception challenges in the 90s and 2000s have the skills to navigate such websites, but newer generations who grew up with walled garden app stores never learned these.

At the very least the offline installers should be unhidden and the whole minimisation feature scrapped, if they insist on keeping the giant blue galaxy button. Time to stop blaming the users for getting tricked by very intentional tricks designed to do exactly that.

Oh I know, but better low ram usage than OOM Reaper popping up and slaying random program IDs. Especially when clumsily made old software like Pidgin still suffers memory leaks and looks to be stuck on the 2.x software series for an indefinitely long time. (Just like the GNU Image Manipulation Program looks to reach 3.0.0 by 2030.)

but most people playing a game want their Ram for that... not downloading updates for Galaxy which tend to fail anyway

at least don't WHILE we are playing... for Fuck sake even Microsoft gets playing a game = hands off!

because linux is still a bad os for gaming

That applies more to file caching than application bloat, ie, if say 10GB out of 16GB RAM is being used then it's a good thing that the OS will hold onto a copy of recently closed files in unused RAM so that they can reopen quickly again. Of course it's a bad thing that actual "In Use" memory bloats for the sake of bloating as it just means less for multi-tasking / file caching.