On thing to keep in mind is that GOG isn't only losing potential sales from Linux gamers whenever the lack of the Galaxy client for Linux keeps the Linux version of any game Steam-exclusive, many Windows and Mac gamers may also prefer to buy that game from Steam just in case they ever might wish to try using Linux or simply refuse to buy a lesser version regardless if they care about the Linux support otherwise.

And every time a potential customer is driven off to Steam there is a risk of that customer never coming back to GOG, so in the long run the lack of the Galaxy client for Linux is likely going to be a far bigger problem for GOG than just losing a few sales from Linux users per each game with a Steam-exclusive Linux version...

Some of us may prefer to learn how the UI works and then not have it changing much over the years, so as Windows 10's UI is almost as horrible change for the worse as the ribbon was for Office and the bi-annual updates are bound to keep the tablet oriented UI evolving to who knows what direction, any Linux distro with LTS version is going to offer longer breaks between needing to learn again where this or that setting is now located.

Anyone with that level of commitment on getting their games to work is also likely to have found their computer being automatically upgraded to Windows 10 and probably would have resigned to use whatever UI as long as they can launch their games without much effort instead of going to through the trouble of reverting back to Windows 7, especially if they are at least subconsciously aware that they wouldn't be able to say no to it forever...

I dual boot Linux and Win, but 90 % of the gaming is on Linux. I tried to buy a game through GOG and thanks to no Galaxy support on Linux I didn't get the complete experience. So please make Galaxy work on Linux as well.

+1 for a Linux version

+1 for a native Linux client.

Not much use or care for linux to be honest, that is why they don't bother.

Yeah true, it is very small userbase :(

But I hope in distant future to get Linux client, maybe they could integrate Proton like Steam does. That would be awesome

It's sad to not have GOG 2.0 on linux, from what I see in files (Windows), application is based on:

- Qt5 (5.12.3 if I see correctly) - on Linux from ancient times, hell whole KDE is based on it... so no dependecy problem, Qt apps work on GNOME, XFCE, KDE and other desktop/distros and look as developer want it.
- Python 3.7 - for plugins and it's included with application for compatibility - don't see problem here
- POCO C++ - on all platforms
- Chrome - on all platforms

I won't write about JSON, Curl, OpenSSL, zLib...

At installation we got mostly "urlmon" / "ntdll" problem that prevents us from installation, when trying to forcibly run GOG2.0 there is certificate error.

+1 Linux Native Client
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We don't want you to make games playable on Linux, make your client to work, we will play what we can ;)

Honestly, there's two ways to think of this:

The GOG client uses Electron. It's a steaming pile of crap, but it's portable, which means the client itself should work. The second thing is that most of the work required to make GOG games work on a Mac should apply to Linux as well. This isn't 100% the case (such as with WINE usage) but applies most of the time.

With that said, GOG has regressed in its Mac support as well. Games that were formerly available for the Mac are no longer available, which is puzzling.

It's a shame because Ubuntu makes a great platform for my kids to use older PCs.

Sincerely...Galaxy for Linux would be great :)
Please.
The site itch.io already have a client for Linux,why not GOG?

Post for GOG Team

1. GameHub on Github
2. minigalaxy on Github

In gog shop 1408 titles, but there could be more like as Metro 2033, Dying Light, The Talos Principle and other games which developed for Linux, but distributed only Steam

In my case, I'm both Ubuntu and Windows user. Windows - mostly for games and some specific piece of software. Ubuntu - for everything else.

And as though I've installed every possible game store platform - steam, gog, egs, uplay, origin, battlenet, bethesda - steam remains my primary platform, as steam has a linux client. And steam now has steamplay feature, allowing to at least to try to launch windows-only game in Ubuntu. And you know what? In major cases games are played ok! I'd even say that steamplay is another game code quality check tool. Of course, if there is no punkbuster-like app or DRM implemented, then usually game is very linux unfriendly.

What I"m leading to: can't say for everyone, but in my case GOG linux client missing makes me think twice, if I'd like to buy a game from a windows-only platform. And I believe that good old games, usually ressurected via some virtualization tool, would be no problem to be virtualized on linux, via the same dosbox.

Likewise I've used various different stores but Steamplay has that level of integration now that there is no major reason to use others. Personally I had enough back when Windows started showing adverts on the desktop, that was the last straw and I made the decision to cut it permanently out. Now Wine, Proton, Mesa etc. are into level where even very recent games run really fine.

Also in kernel 5.11 there is coming new capability to handling syscalls from Windows apps that are using CPU-level interrupts so that those can be handled in Wine then without modifying the program itself. So looks like even those with DRM are coming to be supported some way sooner or later..

1% of over 100 million users is still pretty hefty bunch.. I think someone mentioned that Linux users actually do higher percentage of purchases per user (since many want to support those who support Linux) and on the flip-side many users play free-to-play games which don't count in revenue although they have users..

How was it again, "lies, damn lies and statistics"..

Anyway, it is looking like Mac users are in for some trouble after Apple has said they are deprecating OpenGL support and has no official Vulkan support etc.

(One more thing, I don't know how much F2P games on Steam have revenue from other items / in-game virtual currency etc. besides the game itself so that is one thing hard to estimate from simply userbase distribution..)

So, will Galaxy be available for Linux soon? Or never?

I would say "never". Gog get requests since years. If you ask them via support function, answers are not that polite (but same counts for everything that doesn't mean "I like you").

That is one reason why I keep my money in my bag. I really hate Windows. And even if I had enough money to buy a Mac, I would never do it. Because Apple is no better than Microsoft.

Gog would be better than Steam with DRM free and such. But there isn't any GUI for Gog on Linux.
Instead, they add stupid functions to Galaxy. YES! The last thing users were waiting for is the millionth way for players to contact each other!