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GOG Galaxy is amazing at installing games purchased from GOG store. My version is long outdated and it can't be helped under Windows 7. Everytime I install a game it's like magic to me.

Everything else is meh. And my greatest regret was checking the integration with other store fronts. I have no idea what was done but since then GOG Galaxy *thinks* that I own some games which I don't on any other game digital store.
For example Detroit: Become Human game - the only instance I've ever run that game was one time on PS4 under my account from a friend's console who bought it for himself not me. And I've never sync anything to PSN except my old Xperia Sony phone 15 years ago.
[EDIT] - actually I forgot that I also linked Capcom Shadaloo to PSN but it doesn't change anything regarding the Detroit: Become Human game showing as "Owned" with Source = "Other".

Don't sync / intergrate for your own health!

If you can't see your achievements you're doing something wrong.
I even see those from other platforms.
But let's just have another Galaxy rant, it's fun.

edit: But I agree, the third party integrations are a crap. GOG does not maintain them and the people who created them in the first place don't seem to care either,

Not essential, but I think cloud saves are quite useful, when they are supported.

But can you EARN them?

Are you on the superior 1.2 version ?
The v.2 beta branch just had an update yesterday.

It seems not, my version is 2.0.40 Hotfix (July 16, 2021). What's so good about version 1.2?

[s] What's the point in anything? Let's all dye![/s]

If you don't care about multiplayer, achievements, etc. that require Galaxy, sure, just use Playnite or the installers through the website (but Galaxy does let you download the installers). Right now Galaxy is basically in a coma (as Galaxy 2 never took off, EGS seems to be the new #2 store, etc.), but abandoning it seems pointless to me. All that money thrown away and I seriously doubt GOG would come out with something better any time soon.

If the Downloader can be pretty cheaply and easily brought back (called "Galaxy Light"(or Lite or SatelLite :P) or something), that'd be great. The Downloader removal didn't and still doesn't upset me enough to boycott or whatever though.

I know some people will disagree with me, that's fine, as always I don't feel like arguing though. :P

I gained a bit more faith in the Galaxy team since the last update (still have to try it tho), since they added a long wanted feature (download ETA), and fixed the bug on the game preview I reported weeks ago.

Talking about the integration part, they've completely abandoned everything a year ago, and I already knew that when I started developing my integration, which I released at the beginning of the year: they won't reply to git issues and the support team forwarded one of my feature requests, but I already know they won't do anything.
The promises were all there, but it was poorly maintained and the community forgot about them right after they stopped integration development.

Apart from a better UI -- I actually don't remember! :'D
Some people here who use Galaxy tend to stick to that version. I switched over to v.2, but I remember that 1.2 was in some regards better. But I don't even remember how the UI looked.

A better question is why is yours not updating? The OS can't be it - I also use Win7.

GOG has already come up with something way better than Galaxy 2.0: which is Galaxy 1.2, which has a vastly better interface and none of the bloat and annoying ads and other such aggravating stuff that Galaxy 2.0 is overflowing with.

GOG should indeed abandon Galaxy 2.0 and 100% cut all funding for it, and revive Galaxy 1.2 in its place.

I remember how upset I was about the first version of Galaxy after the semi-closed beta test. In beta test version I could right click on the application icon for a pop-up menu with an "exit" option (same as Steam and some other clients), they removed it in public release version. I was glad when they turned that feature back in Galaxy ver. 2.

As for the UI I don't recall any major differences except for the account linking stuff and some little tweaks in settings. The whole UI looks pretty much the same to me.

I don't know why it stopped doing that. There was a time when Galaxy stopped updating under Windows 7 back in 2021 (or was it 2020?), users with the same issue were ignored for a time and then later GOG suggested to reinstall the client and download new version from the website which I did but after several updates it stopped again. It tried updating itself several times and one time, about a month ago, GOG Galaxy was super sluggish almost frozen and then the message appeared, something like: (not direct quotation, my words)
"GOG Galaxy can't be updated due to uknown reason, check your connection, please note that without latest updates your life is going to be miserable. Try downloading the latest version from website, don't hesitate or ELSE!".

I was pretty shocked and since officially GOG Galaxy is not supported for Windows 7, I *thought* I'm stuck.

Why haven't I tried downloading a new version directly from the website? You wouldn't beleive it. Previously GOG Galaxy was pretty heavy on resources and internet traffic (it's unlimited for me, I mean the sluggishness) and suddenly everything is gone.

GOG Galaxy stopped trying to check the version update, the whole startup process is fast - it's like HDD-to-SDD boost.

And since it works better than ever why change it?

But thank you, I didn't know that I could have the actual version for my dying Windows 7.

A question to you - why are you still using Windows 7? And what will you do IF GOG drop the support along with Steam?

Perhaps you could help. What's so good about Galaxy 1.2?

Less cumbersome, no integrations. It is just an installer, updater and launcher.

The world could always use more color.