Fairfox: The Downloader is stripped down, whereas, as written, Galaxy is a client. I prefer the Downloader, but it seems to download slower for me than just in-browser, for... some reason. It also doesn't download any Linux link/installer I try either, for... some reason.

JMich: Galaxy offers you the choice of downloading the (currently uncompressed) game data and/or downloading the compressed installers, for any OS you are interested in. So yes, you can download an installer without downloading the game first.
JMich: There are plans to add compression to the game files, but I think the logistics of it are a bit harder than we think, especially since Galaxy should be able to verify the existing files then send only the ones in need of repair, so it will have to compress an arbitrary number of files on the fly. Possible to do so, but can be a huge pain to do so.

tomyam80: Thks for the info, didn't know Galaxy was able to download compressed files as well. I only knew it downloads uncompressed files by default.

JMich: ... There are plans to add compression to the game files, but I think the logistics of it are a bit harder than we think, especially since Galaxy should be able to verify the existing files then send only the ones in need of repair, so it will have to compress an arbitrary number of files on the fly. Possible to do so, but can be a huge pain to do so.

Engerek01: GOG downloader is (was?) awesome and I never had a problem on my over 300 games i downloaded. However Galaxy had problems with my each try with only 10 games.

Problems with Galaxy:
1. By Default it doesnt download the installer but the game unpacked. This means lets say Witcher 2 installer is 10 GB and it becomes 20 GB after installation. Galaxy downloads this 20GB

2. Galaxy has an amazingly low download speed on my any locations and any computers. Even downloading the installer directly from the web is a lot faster and stable.

3. You can choose to download the installer from the Galaxy by going extras and backup files. However this never concluded on my tries. It always failed on all my tries on all my laptops.

4. If you choose to install the game on its default way through Galaxy, there is a high chance that the game will be corrupted and game wont work. I constantly read about other people having the same problem.

5. Even if you didnt install the game from Galaxy, on some games Galaxy automatically recognize your game and add it to your Galaxy list. This is fine but then it tries to update it which almost always corrupted the games for me. Also for games like Baldur's Gate, the update process removes all the mods.

6. And even if everything goes fine, the game might just not work through Galaxy. 5 of my games i have on my laptop now work fine on its own but crash whenever i try to run them through Galaxy.

I reported these all on mantis and i have complete faith that it will be fixed some day.

PrinceCola: Hi. I am kinda new to GOG. I have downloaded both Galaxy and the GOG downloader. I was wondering what the difference were between the two? Is there any difference in download speed for example?

BKGaming: Might I ask when the last time you used Galaxy was,