When I discovered GOG, I thought "nice" and I started moving out of Steam, since I believed GOG was the right way to go of no DRM.

But, since that happened and it's clear GOG is doing it's best to keep the mentality of respect to the customer and free-drm, including some close relation with CD projekt and Larian, and also some effort to keep mods and unnoficial patches applied to some titles, I have to critique the poor effort of Galaxy 2.0 towards the Linux.

First, of course the lack of native client. Not much to explain here, just regrets.

Second, we can even forget the first item IF GG 2.0 was a decent piece of software, which it's not, running it on wine is terrible, the software is not only based on .net it is also terrible consuming CPU doing nothing and with a terrible UI.

After these two points, it's clear GOG is not putting much effort into GOG Galaxy, it looks like they are only trying to make some kind of customer fidelity or whatever, not caring about their linux community necessities and I'm not even getting into the network multiplay, which by itself is a strong argument to go back to Steam.

So, for the record, I stopped my effort to migrate to GOG, the DRM is bad, ofc it's, and I'm never going to buy Activision, EA or Ubisoft again, but this is not enough to put off with this terrible piece of software called GG 2.0.

Stop being lazy and deliver a GG 3.0 with Qt, you don't even need to do a linux native if you do it right.

I really don't think I'm asking too much here.

And I did not even touched the Proton topic, it looks like Steam is doing more for Linux than GOG, so DRM is not that bad after all, when you look at the big picture.

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try minigalaxy
https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxy

Galaxy 2.0 isn't ready for launch yet. GOG is (stupidly) forcing beta testing onto users, and has been for about 2 years now. This continues in spite of barely providing updates and occasionally breaking the entire platform and taking days to restore it when they do get around to updating. That said, the last known stable Galaxy client is an older 1.2 version, not the one the app forces users to update to even if you opt out of beta testing.

Here's a link to a way to get a much better version of Galaxy than the 2.0 version. It also lacks proper Linux support, but all the problems you mentioned with 2.0 are present in non-emulated Windows too, so it's not just a Wine-related issue. And while not everything is totally fixed by rolling back to the actually-good client, even the ones not entirely fixed, are improved by a worthwhile amount. Hope it helps:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general_beta_gog_galaxy_2.0/how_to_keep_galaxy_v12_client_and_avoid_the_forced_v20_beta_update

And even without the option of 1.2, GOG is still a better platform for some users than Steam. Valve has known about their app causing harm to some users (it's been found to affect several medical conditions) for longer than the problems with GOG, and they've not only refused to fix it, but taken steps to block access to safe workarounds, including locking out users who rolled back to versions of their client app from before the problem began. So as much as I'm not talking positive about GOG, I'd recommend moving on to buying from Epic before I'd recommend going back to Steam.