Marginal support happens a lot on Linux. See AMD drivers without Adrenaline. "You may use Linux if you must... at your own risk... we do the bare minimum to keep you runnig... our past stuff is in the open but we can pull the rug on future releases any time." You can install gog games and maybe some dude made galaxy work in wine, corporate has decided that is good enough.
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
148 points (98.1% liked)
Linux Gaming
19666 readers
513 users here now
Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.
This page can be subscribed to via RSS.
Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.
No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.
Resources
WWW:
Discord:
IRC:
Matrix:
Telegram:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Because GOG doesn't want to support it. They'd rather the community do it.
There's an open-source CLI client to download GOG games, lgogdownloader. It's packaged in Debian.
IIRC GOG is actually partnered with HeroicLauncher... so.. it's semi official to use that... and better UX.
Better UX until you have to download or update a game… there is an open bug report where it just doesn't progress but keeps starting new processes until you‘re OOM. Still no fix in months, I've had to boot into Windows for every single update. Really not that good of an UX.
Are you updating Linux games from Windows??
How does your Windows install open the ext4/btrfs file system your Linux games are stored on?
heroic has no download throttling, very annoying for shared/shitty networks and large games
If you're on Linux, you have a lot more options to affect the system. You could try running Heroic Launcher through trickle: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34116/how-can-i-limit-the-bandwidth-used-by-a-process
Ideally this would be implemented on the client side, i.e. Heroic Launcher, but there seems to some challenges in making that happen: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/597
bit late to this, but trickle doesn't work because heroic spawns new downloader processes unaffected by trickle's limits
Hm, if it spawns some external process, would it be possible to wrap that in a shell script of the same name (and have its dir earlier in PATH), which in turn calls the other one, but through trickle?
Better UX is a big word, as any unofficial launcher it kinda sucks because it doesn’t have a specific feature set. Besides, first party support is always better
That's neat to learn
load more comments
(6 replies)
Maybe the author of the article/blog doesn’t know about Heroic?
They mention lutris, but note that it isn’t a functional equivalent to Galaxy. But as far as I’m aware, Heroic is (correct me if I’m wrong, I haven’t seen Galaxy in action).
I found Heroic today. Same games that won't run on Lutris won't run on Heroic either. The biggest disappointment was that it crashed a few times and I gave up entirely when it froze up. I'm not saying Lutris is flawless, it certainly isn't, but my experience overall has at least been acceptable.
We don't need third party launchers to buy or play their games. Why do you want this?
Besides what the other person said, there's also the whole treating Linux users as second class citizens. If they didn't had a launcher for Windows, then it wouldn't be that big of a problem, but the fact that they did created a launcher for Windows years ago and porting it to Linux has been the most upvoted feature request since then and they haven't done it is a slap in the face of a community that shares a lot of their beliefs. Valve is investing money on making Linux gaming a reality, GoG won't even port their launcher to Linux, despite not caring for a launcher I know who I'm giving my money.
I like having all my games in one place, on a platform where Linux “just works” and I don’t have to fuck around with it.
Eliminating third-party launchers sounds great in theory until you have 20 different half-baked second party launchers that serve no purpose other than being a barrier between me and the games.
If third party launchers were as good as the first party ones, we wouldn't.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Because cdpr is a joke. Like did you see cyberpunks release? All they care is about money they showed that with their rushed job. I haven't claimed any free games on GOG because you have to sign up for their newsletter in order to claim the game. I still get spammed with emails from GOG even after unsubscribing after I receive every single email. At this point of just marked em' as spam.
"rushed job"
8 years of development
I don't know how CP77 turned out how it did, but it certainly wasn't due to being rushed. Either way, they managed to fix it although it took like 2 years or something.
As for you still getting GOG emails... Git gud?? Unsubscribing from a service's emails is the easiest thing in the world if you take roughly 2 seconds to make sure it's done properly.
Yeah and I fucking unsubscribed and they keep sending me emails and then I unsubscribe again and then they keep sending me emails and then I unsubscribe again and then they keep sending me emails...
You picking up on it yet?
And it was in development longer than 8 years it got rumored I can 2011 or something and then the teaser was 2013 I think I forget hold up I'm fuzzy rn. But you can tell it's a rushed product by the end result. if it needed more time it needed more time end of fucking story
load more comments
(1 replies)