Hi all,
how do i get rid of the new "Discover" tab and the recommend list on my game page?
Up till now i really liked GOG Galaxy, but if i'm forced to watch adds every time i open it up, i go back to shortcuts on my desktop. Very unhappy with this change!

EDIT: Just rolled back to the old version from my backup and won't update anymore. Works for now.

No need to panic ;-) The setting has always been there since Galaxy 2.0 came out, iirc:

Settings > General > Starting page

That's not disabling, that's just ignoring it.

The above setting solves the problem described in the OP. "Ignoring it" would be not solving the problem ;-)

That doesn't solve the problem, which is that every single game page now has an advert on it. Changing the starting page doesn't fix that.

How did you roll back? I'd like to do the same thing. I already own over 800 games via GOG, I think I can find what I want without additional garbage taking up space on Galaxy.

I do frequent backups on an external harddrive and just copied that over my installation.
Thinking about switching to Playnite, it is very similar to Galaxy.

No backups here, so that won't work for me. I'll just put up with it until I finish the latest NMS expedition. After that, I'm removing Galaxy from my system. Galaxy has too many issues for my liking anyways.

You could uninstall and re-install an older version. You will need to redo any bookmarks you made on the sidebar as well as re-link EXEs for manually added games (could be a giant PITA if you have a ton of manually added games) but everything else will be there upon re-install, including custom artwork.

Personally, my fave version of Galaxy is 2.0.46.133 Here's the offline installer:

https://content-system.gog.com/open_link/download?path=/open/galaxy/client/2.0.46.133/setup_galaxy_2.0.46.133.exe

Predates the recent changes to the sidebar as well as the Discover "feature". Also, seems to use less RAM and just feels more stable overall. Plus, the option to hide the Store in the settings menu actually works (unlike recent versions). I myself like having the store there, but at least it's an option for those who don't.

If you go this route, make sure you block updates as Galaxy likes to auto-update itself (doesn't all software/firmware/apps these days? Grrrr...)

As an aside, I'm not opposed to the changes GOG is making to increase discoverability, in fact I welcome them. Hell, Steam does it all the time. The difference is that Steam has found a way to do so while integrating well with your game library. Personally, I think GOG is on the right track as Galaxy has a much nicer interface than the Steam client; they just need a few tweaks like allowing re-organization of the sidebar and a more tasteful location of the "similar games" on the game details screen.

I set the start page to library since Galaxy cam out, so I haven't seen an add so far.

All I see is a "Discover button on the top left" which I don't click (same as friends list. Buttons are so easy to ignore).




on a sidenote:
Hiding the store didn't work in the past? Haven't noticed :)

The newest version is absolutely slower than the version you posted, which is not good. You are right that they need to find a tasteful way to integrate recommendations, or at least give options to disable these 'features.'

Just a little bump for this issue, this "bug" is just annoying should go the way of the Dodo

I obtained the installer for 2.0.50, and it's working fine on the only Windows PC I have left. I'm using 2.0.46 on my two Linux installs (using the install script at Lutris). All are working well.

I didn't have an issue with the "Discover" heading on the sidebar. My issue was with suggestions taking up space on every game page I looked at in Galaxy. I currently own over 850 games through GOG, and they still want to suggest more? No thanks, I think I can find what I want on my own.

I do want to thank GOG support though. They gave me the information I needed to resolve this issue. I asked for the exact version number for 2.0.50.xx, and they gave me the version number with the xx filled in. I was able to obtain the last non-Discover version with that information.

Sadly, that's the only time I can remember GOG support being helpful to date.

Got hit by this annoyance as well. Would you be able to share the link to that non "Discover" version @fixitman?