Hello GOG universe,

any chance that GOG will release a linux client of GOG Galaxy or use Lutris in the future at Linux ?

Also to use Flatpak in the future for games at Linux ?

Kind regards
Frank

A Galaxy Linux client is planned, no idea when it will be available. For the other questions, I've no idea.

It'll be ready in 2077.

At this point they were better off leaving the client as open source. Or if they're having trouble paying developers with GOG revenue (if that is possible), at least start a donation drive or appeal to CDPR for witcherbux.

Sure, there's always a chance something can happen that we have no actual details about because we're not on the inside scoop of things. Only GOG.com employees could answer this question with any authority however and they probably wont release any new information that they haven't said before. They have stated that a Linux client is planned but no timeline or any other information about it and they probably wont say anything more about it until days/weeks before they plan to make it available.

It doesn't hurt to ask either mind you, but there probably wont be any answers forthcoming. :)

Oh, I thought this was a necro because it more or less looked exactly like a previous thread.

Wow!..

Mr Linuxvangog, is there a chance for Crimsonland's Linux update? Windows got update in Apr 2016, since then Linux version was just "promised" in GOGs changelogs... Thanks!!

Apart from security... But the I suppose another problem is that it's yet to be determined if Flatpak will become the new standard.

Probably not. Flatpack is barely used as is and creates problems when updating as it is considered separate of most package manager.

For example if I installed something though Gnome Software or Kapps (or whatever the KDE version is called), there could be a problem later when updating though your package manager.

Thank you linuxvangog for your feedback.
I really appreciate it.

Please keep up the great work and support for your GOG games for linux.

Regards from Germany

Talking about flatpak - I, personally, agreed, that something like this should replace current way, GoG distribute linux games (2 reasons - security (flatpak designed to be sort of sandbox either) and smarter support (Im talking about situations, when games with older libs packed, doesnt work on distros newer than ubuntu, and, coz they arent officially supported by GoG, you will need to spend dozens of hours in order to fix it. Using flatpak/snap/etc, will handle 99% of these situations - your games will work on any linux distro, which has flatpak/snap support). On other side - I understand GoG's position either - right now, nobody knows, what will survive this game: flatpak, snap or old but gold appimage. So - they just wait, coz its business and repacking packages costs time (and so - money to pay people, who doing so and testing it later).

Iirc, nothing stops you from packing GoG's blobs into flatpak by uself, if you wish it RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW