For starters it makes your cpu work harder for no reason at all. It's also malware like, starting by itself. It still cannot, and that's amazing to me, connect with Steam. Even after 3 years of development it's completely useless. Bring back the GOG downloader already.

So don't use it and save us the whiny baby routine.

LOL((;--))

Can't you disable it starting up automatically? Also you can use Galaxy to download installers and bonus goodies like the Downloader.

I'm not against bringing the Downloader back of course but it's very unlikely to happen especially with GOG's seemingly extremely-thin resources. So I'm not sure raging over this matter is worth it, though I can't stop anyone of course. :P

There are some alternatives to the downloader, lgogdownload er or - my favourite one - gogrepoc.

They are a lot more comfortable and flexible than the downloader ever was.

They are definitely NOT more comfortable since you will have to deal with python and command lines. Might be faster for some but it is definitelky not more comfortable. They might be more flexible though but imo nothing can beat the "click in your library and be done" download GOG Downloader offered.

When it comes to Galaxy: it is able to do the same but far more complicated since you will have to search the game in Galaxy then go to extras and click on the downloads. Galaxy is not able to recognize if the download is already in the folder and will redownload it no matter what. For whatever reason Galaxy is also unable to delete the tmp folder it creates for the download.

So when it comes to replacing the GOG Downloader Galaxy is not on the same level and it starts much slower. The things that are broken in Galaxy are things the GOG Downloader never had. The main selling point of it, the integration of other stores (which is basically the only thing Galaxy 1 did not have) is incomplete and broken for several platforms. Origin is gone, Steam does not work anymore and since day 1 it is not possible to hide or tag games per platform. At least for me sometimes te integrations don't work at all and I'll have to restart Galaxy.

So yes, Galaxy is far from being perfect or even being a good client and those who only are using it for downloading their games should not have robbed from their easy to use GOG Downloader ... but we had this discussion already in several threads and GOG ignored the wishes of these users since today - so I have given up hope that they will ever reconsider. They are stubborn and they prefer to push their broken and incomplete beta client for whatever reason. So yes, use scripts, use your browser since GOG won't listen to anybody who does want to get back the GOG Downloader.

What do you like better about gogrepoc?

Sounds like someone who cares needs to make a gui package. Downloads and updates your whole game collection i you let it. It has it's issues, though, mostly with the forking issues and GOG changing tings in the back end.

Can't really point it out, probably just habbit and of course that it's system independent. That depends what is "comfortable" for you. For me they are WAY more comfortable.
The command line support is their strong point. Instead of clicking and clicking and clicking and clicking I can just type in what I want to happen.
I can download patches only, setups only, bonus files only or a mix of all by just calling a preperaired scripts with all flags set right.

Also I can run them on my server while not being at home, can log in, start updates and downloads. Neither GOG Downloader nor Galaxy can match that.

My routine would be:
log in
>gog_update_changed
>addgogid gameid (could be automated, but I prefer this part manually)
>nh_gog_dl
>exit

And when I get home, the newest versions of my GOG games are downloaded. What's more comfortable than that?

And if I want to update and download a single game

gog_update_single gameid
gog_dl gameid

I'd say most people nowadays would prefer one click downloads to executing command lines but of course that is up to subjective preference. I never wanted all my games to get downloaded, only those that I want to download. So the "all that has been updated" routine does not work for me. I have limited space on my HDD and I've spread my archived games on several external HDDs. I am sure those scripts are the solution for some but they simply aren't for me. I've tried and went back to Galaxy.

Of course I also have prepaired scripts for downloading single games.
Since I bought a huge HDD fpr game backups currently there is no need to split, but if it comes to that I either would automate that (put a-n on disk 1 and o-z on disk 2 or something like that) in my script or add the new HDD to the existing volume which would probably be the wiser decision.

If using Galaxy to download the content works for you, that's perfectly fine.
Some people don't download offline installers at all and that's also a valid preference.
I'm just glad we have several options and can chose.

OK. But I was looking for how it might be better than lgogdownloader which also does that.

I quite like it and have no issues with it. I even prefer it to Steam, especially the ability to edit sorting names.

I have a gaming PC though. Maybe it's resource hungry on an old laptop or whatever.

Galaxy 2 is indeed awful; however, the OP does not even state the most important main reasons why it is awful, like it's horrible interface and like it's intrusive & unwanted & totally unnecessary insertion of ads for DRM games on other stores all over the place.

Also, OP makes it sound like Galaxy connecting with Steam properly would be a good thing, even though it's actually a bad thing and Galaxy was much better when it had no such function, and also none of the other kinds of terrible things that I just mentioned.

I agree GOG should scrap Galaxy 2, but they should not replace it with "GOG downloader;" rather, they should replace it with Galaxy 1.2, which is amazing and perfect.

I don't remember but lgogdownloader i don't think went through your list of games and downloaded them all. Or maybe i'm thinking of a different one.
So this is the real reason for galaxy... False flag? Controlled opposition?