Won't hurt Steam to have a bit of healthy competition. F yeah I'm using it.

Currently not using it. No valid reason, just lazy. I will eventually because it seems to me a small amount of work will allow me to be even lazier in the future!

Bear in mind that the OP asked a question in the thread title, and it would be reasonable to assume from that title that you're predominently going to hear the viewpoints of those opposed to or nervous about Galaxy.

I hope they'll take the GOG Cultists with them on their exodus ;)

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I decided to stop using Galaxy after trying it out because I don't like the way it looks and it really doesn't offer much. Right now, it is inferior to Steam in almost every way. In the future, I might give it another chance if GOG decides to change it's look and add more features.

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It's even reasonable to assume that there are quite a number of people not wanting the extra convenience of using the Galaxy client for whatever reasons. But that topic is just too boring. What people really interests is if GOG will be just like Steam or if it will be significantly better or worse? That is the million dollar question and nobody knows the answer.

Here here! many of those nervous of Galaxy aren't asking for Galaxy to die. They just want to have the choice to not potentially be inconvenienced by it. Wtih Galaxy being in beta, this is practically our only opportunuty to make GOG aware of our concerns.

If Galaxy is as convenient as the current GOG downloader and offers exactly the same way of obtaining a fully patched installer, most of us "doubters" would be very happy and won't have an issue using Galaxy. In my case I'd have to install Galaxy each time I want to download a game as I won't have a persistent install of Galaxy on my internet computer (and Galaxy would be 100% useless on the offline computer I use for gaming) so I just want to know that Galaxy will be quick to install, won't use bandwidth other than to download the games I want to download, and isn't going to cause me issues with settings because I keep reinstalling it - I assume my preferences would be stored on GOG's server and not some cache on my internet PC because that's going to get nuked every time I restore my notebook to its original installation from a backup image.

I accept that I do things differently to the average PC user, but I don't just have games on my offline PC. I suppose if I just used a computer for gaming, and had unlimited internet, and didn't really want to keep any games for prosperity, then I'd have no issues using a persistent online client. But that's not me.

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I have zero fears that GOG will become Steam... because then it will BE Steam ;)

I do have fears that developers may be tempted to make online updates via Galaxy frequent, and take a looooooong time to push those updates out to offline installers. To be fair, maybe the developers will be happy to frequently publish versions that can be used to generate updated offline installers, but maybe GOG won't have the manpower to handle the QA - in which case, I'd like the developers to release patches than can be installed outside of Galaxy as well.

I DO use it, and 90% of the reason is to manage my installs and updates.

Unfortunately, no, it uses Chrome. I don't allow that browser anywhere near my computer (as a stand alone app, anyway), so definitely not my OS's default browser.

If you don't mind my asking, what do you find difficult about it? It's 3 clicks. Click the Menu arrow, click Download Extras, click the installer (see 'backup' pic).

Try temporarily disabling your antivirus while it's downloading, works for me.

Depending on what you mean by 'discard', they already have. See question 8 in the FAQ. They haven't intentionally broken it, but they're no longer updating it, so changes behind the scene could potentially break it in the future.

As far as I can recall, and rather inexplicably, there has never been a forum link on the store page. I don't get it either. This is one of the things that the water vapor service does right, but GOG, for some reason, hasn't done.

This is, by far, the type of feature I wish for the most in Galaxy. I often end up launching non-Steam games in Steam so I can get the overlay so I can look up guides or something. Like in Legend of Grimrock 2, I was following a party build guide, so I ended up playing it through Steam to have the guide available with a quick shift-tab instead of having to alt-tab out all the time which often lead to instability.

You can change where Galaxy installs stuff, and even set a different directory for Extras (which includes backup installers). See the 'downloads' pic.

Of course, this still puts all the extras, for example, in one place, so you can't have it automatically put Icewind Dale in C:\IWD_Installer\ and Baldur's Gate in D:\Backups\Gog_Games\ or whatever, but still. It also won't separate, say, soundtracks in to one folder and wallpapers in to another, which I think is a bit of a pain; everything goes in a folder named after the game/series.

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Hah, whoops, just realized I misread one of the posts I was responding to. Ignore that bit about memory if you saw it, skeletonbow :-)

OK, so I see in question 13 that downloading via the browser will be the only way to download games if you don't use Galaxy. I assume download links don't expire then because it can take me days to download some games depending on how my internet decides it's feeling that day.

Looks like I'm late to this party. But no, not using it. Still going through the death-of-a-thousand-clicks to get the GOG Downloader links. I suppose I'll try Galaxy eventually just to see what it does, but I've not heard reassuring things yet.