I became a Linux Gamer this year and I am very happy with the current Linux gaming scenario, it is gratifying to be able to play games like The Witcher 3, Nier: Automata, DOOM and Grim Dawn on Linux with the same performance as on Windows. However, while Steam offers proton as an integrated solution for running games on a Linux system, Galaxy doesn't even have a native Linux client, so I wonder: Galaxy 2.0 will have a native Linux client or are there any plans for this in the future?

Their wishlist item for the Galaxy client for Linux has been "in progress" for AGES now, so probably not ever. Clearly GoG doesn't think our money is green enough for them. Personally, I'ma just keep buying from Steam and Humble Bundle. Galaxy 2.0 not having a Linux version was the final insult. They lost a customer (probably permanently) with that one...

fair enough.
steam hides their Proton behind DRM while gog allows you to use offline installers and run your games the way you want.

OP, if you want to have game shelf for gog games try GameHub. it supports gog, steam, itch and humble, can import gog tags and also can run windows games with proton (if it finds steam installed) or with wine, can use emulators.
Lutris has similar features but worse tag manager (no tag manager infact).

there's also Games Nebula - open gog client with simplistic design. it has game shelf and gog site tab, ability to run games with emulators, dos or wine. this one acts like a replacement for galaxy 1x.

actually all these apps have better set of features than current galaxy 2.0 - you can add any custom game without an issue, can run windows games, can link emulators etc. and most important - it just works and won't drop your integrations every other day.

gog has no money and no intention to invest into client for Linux. it should be obvious for everyone who saw gog's efforts during last 3-5 years.

I think the latest insult that has been made against Linux users for galaxy (2.0) is the error popup each time you run it under Linux telling you that you have to use NTFS for it to work... (and yes, that's an insult)

So why bother with Galaxy while it is not (yet) mandatory ? Success in some games, or some pre-releases that can only be installed with Galaxy (no offline installers)

By the way, running Galaxy 2.0 under wine (or Proton) spam a bazillion in log about timeout of things (at least on my machine)

So, at the end, thanks GOG for DRM free, thanks steam for Proton, shame on you GOG for your non existing support, shame on you Steam for your DRMs that keep you to play a game because your brother is playing another game of the family library


PS: about Proton and fact that people do not invest in Linux because of that. I would like you to try to run the native witcher 2 under a recent Linux distribution (hint, it does not work, and when it works, it's 30% slower than running it with proton or wine and dxvk) :-) If games use vulkan Proton has not a lot of impact on performances, and for DX11 it's okay (i.e. more than 120fps on my computer, when it runs, but it crash every 10min). If developers starts to test their games against Proton, that already a win, and the day it will be more efficient to use native because a big part of users are under Linux since they came to Linux without having to choose between playing and using Linux, it's still early enough to do native games

that's funny thing. old 1.2 galaxy spammed it too. at the same rate, 2Gb of HDD space per hour :) sometimes I had to recover unclean mysql shutdown due to 0 free space left. never leave it running if you're not around your PC. it will eat everything.

No kidding, NTFS the destroyer of DD!!!
Even Microsoft doesn’t want it anymore :-D
GOG doesn’t understand anything!
Microsoft has integrated Bash into Windows 10!
The Windows database will certainly soon be a Linux OS with the Windows interface, and GOG realizes Galaxy only for NTFS!

But it doesn’t matter.
While GOG gets lost, game developers are moving in the right direction. (exception; CDPR)