Quoting: GuestPerhaps, but I'd rather not rely on proprietary software to play my games. It's one thing about Steam I don't like, and I'd abandon GOG if they went the same route.

Sure, I'm not saying anyone should use the blob client. I'm just saying that community can't make a proper client yet at least in case of Linux builds, due to GOG not enabling Galaxy protocol for them. It works for Windows builds, that's why FOSS clients like lgogdownloader and wyvern can do incremental updates for them properly. For Linux builds they use a hack I described above.

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Quoting: no_information_hereMy one question is: Do any of these FOSS clients support incremental updates? Downloading 2GB+ every time a dev patches their game is another reason I don't use GOG as much.

lgogdownloader and wyvern do, when using Galaxy protocol (so for Windows builds). For Linux builds GOG doesn't support Galaxy protocol on the backend, so they rely on the hack of using zip offsets over HTTP, so it kind of works, but it's a hack.

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Also:

[The Bard's Tale IV](https://www.gog.com/games?search=The Bard's Tale IV) - 50% off.
[Pathfinder: Kingmaker](https://www.gog.com/games?search=Pathfinder%3A Kingmaker) - various discounts.
Tyranny [External Link] - 50% off.
[Pillars of Eternity Series](https://www.gog.com/games?search=Pillars of Eternity) - a bunch of discounts.
[The Witcher series](https://www.gog.com/games?search=The Witcher) - 70%-85% off. Pretty good price to get TW3 for Wine.

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Quoting: GuestWhile I'd like to see gog galaxy get a gnu/linux version, that this kind of application can be written by the community is what I approve of most.

The problem is not the client, but lack of Galaxy support for the Linux titles on the server. There is nothing community can do about that.

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Quoting: Liam DawePeople dropping offafter two years. A lot of people don't update it once they do it initially so it removes them.

Do you see if those people still return or they also never return to the site? Would be interesting to analyze, whether it's simply updating problem, or rather users leaving one. I.e. for example when deleting, you can set some internal counter about the above.

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Also, I get the impression that total number of users with active stats is dropping month after month. I'd expect the opposite if Linux gaming is gradually growing. Why the negative trend?

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A few things to add which are commonly suggested:

1. Session type (X or Wayland).
2. Monitor refresh rate.
3. Adaptive sync usage.

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Hm, can someone give a grant to developers of Eitr, so they could finish the game?

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Quoting: BeamboomThat's taking it much too far - but yes, the mobile segment is where they pull in the big money and has done so the last ten years or so.
But their desktop segment, especially when we look at laptops, is really massive and they are definitely still pushing forth, much harder than I'd say Microsoft do for their OS.

The fact that they let OpenGL and 32-bit rot there, didn't support Vulkan and didn't care about many other things shows they ignore their own users. Apple's mentality has always been "we know better what you should do, even if what we offer is garbage". In the past they managed to get away with it, but as bit rot started reaching significant levels, even macOS users who drank that koolaid before started being disgusted.

Quoting: BeamboomAnd let's be frank here - they do a LOT right in regards to UX. It's why they have the position they have.

I actually disagree, they are surely over-confident and like to create hype about everything they do. But more often than not, their design is bad and totally not something I'd be interested in using. And everyone else shouldn't look at them as some kind of set in stone example to follow. I quite dislike when this happens.

Their relatively big user base is all thanks to marketing which borders on brainwashing, not because of some good design or UX breakthroughs.

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You can also see games that already came out for normal Linux before to appear on Stadia. Like Superhot.

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