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General discussionGOG deliberately sabotages GOG Galaxy on Linux(52 posts)(52 posts)
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Posted September 04, 2022
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Truth007: I know, I am talking more about now with windows 11. You don't own your computer anymore since it requires internet and an account to install the OS.
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Dark_art_: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/tvdaxl/psa_you_can_set_up_windows_11_without_a_microsoft

Not completly true, Windows 11 can be installed and used with a local account only.
Those are unofficial workarounds, I mean officially. Also some of those workarounds don't work anymore since MS removed them, eventually they will remove the rest of them. It seems eventually for their OS future, that it will be subscription based.
Posted September 05, 2022
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lenny3: Thank you!
Customer Rep has given me link to current latest version of Galaxy. It works now and I've included it in one of earlier posts I think. But this link may not work once new Galaxy is out.
I really don't understand why CD Projekt is trying to be so smart about detecting browser user agent, and block downloads, this is only a burden and no real gain from it.
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Sude: You can always get the link to latest version from here
https://remote-config.gog.com/components/webinstaller?component_version=2.0.0

Here's what I use to download the latest version when needed

wget $(wget --quiet "https://remote-config.gog.com/components/webinstaller?component_version=2.0.0" -O - | sed -e 's;\\;;g' -e 's;.*path=/\(.*exe\).*;https://cdn.gog.com/\1;')
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Sude:
Thanks! You have this link and latest version resolver, but this is not official and may break in the future.
Customer Support were not that friendly to give me this. They said to contact them each time a user wants a link. O_o
Posted September 06, 2022
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Truth007: I know, I am talking more about now with windows 11. You don't own your computer anymore since it requires internet and an account to install the OS.
Still, GOG aren't going to change the way they have been doing things just due to the vagaries of a Windows OS, just highly unlikely they would even see a reason, as Windows customers are their bread and butter.

I simply can't imagine a store that is purely based on Linux Games, surviving. Just wouldn't have a large enough customer base, to make all the setup costs etc worthwhile. It would be very niche, extremely so, and just not viable.

And while you can say that the above is just my opinion, the facts speak louder than my words ... why isn't there such a store?
Posted September 07, 2022
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Timboli: And while you can say that the above is just my opinion, the facts speak louder than my words ... why isn't there such a store?
Google Play Store ?...
Posted September 07, 2022
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Timboli: I simply can't imagine a store that is purely based on Linux Games, surviving. Just wouldn't have a large enough customer base, to make all the setup costs etc worthwhile. It would be very niche, extremely so, and just not viable.
Same could be said about a store selling only DRM-free games…
Posted September 08, 2022
Just noticed a funny thing. CD PROJECT supports Steam Deck for Cyberpunk, latest patch contains specific patches for this Linux based device. But on the other hand GOG Galaxy, which works perfectly fine for Linux users too, is being hidden from downloads so users can't even download it.

No problem to emulate CD PROJECT games on Linux via Proton on Steam Deck, they even release patches for it.
Hides all downloads so users can't even download a thing if they want to run games on Linux via Proton or Wine or Lutris themselves.

That's pretty much double standards, hey!?
Posted October 03, 2022
Finally I dumped GOG Galaxy, I am happy on open source Heroic Games Launcher. CD Projekt sucks.
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