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Best way to use GOG on linux (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for discussion and suggestions about the best way to play games from GOG on linux.

My current method is that I've got GOG Galaxy installed with bottles, and then I use GOG Galaxy to install and launch the Windows games. That's working alright so far. One downside is that won't install Iinux versions like that, so for games that have a native linux version I have to decide if I want to install it separately, or just run the windows version with the others. So that isn't perfect. Another minor thing I don't like is that since I'm installing games via GOG Galaxy via Bottles via Flatpak... I end up having very little idea of where stuff is being saved. It's difficult to find save game files for example; and if there is some junk installed or left over from something, there's very little chance that I'm going to notice and delete it. It just feels very opaque. (I guess that's mostly just about my personal lack of knowledge though.)

Anyway, I'm mostly just wondering how others are choosing to handle their games from GOG.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (9 children)

The Heroic Games Launcher is (IMHO) by far the best interface to gog you can have on linux.

You can find it on the AUR if you use arch, which makes it pretty straightforward to install.

The next version will integrate with the Galaxy API using the comet project, which should make it even better.

The only problem I had with it is that, once upon a time, there was a bug with downloading some games (Cyberpunk 2077, in my case) and I had to compile the git version of Gog-dl and target that in the settings.. but the fact I could even do that is great by itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Heroic does seem to have jumped in popularity recently. I'd never heard of it when I first started installing games on Linux.)

Does the comet support mean that it can also do Galaxy cloud-saves and achievements? I wouldn't say those things are super important to me, but it would make switching between launches easier - since I wouldn't have to stuff around trying to move save files to the right place after switching.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cloud saves are already supported by Heroic ; Comet can already be used if you launch it yourself but will be integrated in the package in the future. Comet support online features and achievements. Heroic + Comet = Gog Galaxy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That’s good to know about Comet being usable already. Recently got back into No Man’s Sky and want to try out some online stuff.

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