I have Ubuntu 22.04 and KDE. I logged into the gog.com website, clicked on my username, clicked Games, selected The Witcher 3: Game of the Year Edition, View Downloads, Download and install Now, and it installed GOG in KDE and I was then able to install the Witcher 3.

However, it had to download some updates and said I had to restart. After restarting, I now have 2 gog galaxies in the application launcher, and neither one works. When I double-click them, nothing happens.

As you can see in the screenshot, I had the Witcher 3 and the Witcher Adventure Game installed. None of these do anything when I double-click them.

What am I supposed to do?

UPDATE: So the icon that's just the purple circle eventually loaded after about 2 minutes, and the Witcher 3 did show up in there. The other one that says "gog.com" on the icon loaded after about 10 minutes. No games showed up as being installed in that one.

You have misnamed your post and some of your text ... GOG is not Galaxy.

You should just be referring to Galaxy. GOG is just a website and company.

Galaxy is their game serving client, for installing or downloading and or playing, plus an alternate way to use their store, and for all things multiplayer where supported and or required ... also a kind of library (plus launcher) for your GOG games and games from other stores.

As for your issue, I am no Linux Guru, but to run Galaxy you would need something like Wine etc. So what you have posted is both lacking in information and somewhat confusing.

Is it essential for you to use galaxy, I've always just used lutris since moving to linux. I prefer it even to galaxy on Windows

Galaxy doesn't exist for Linux. There are alternative clients that exist for Linux, but the support for Linux has been...paltry at best on GOG's part.

I'm not sure if Galaxy runs in wine at the moment. In the past there have been many discouraging comments around here.

I don't use a client to install games, so I cannot help you there at all, but if you want to use one there is the choice of Lutris, PlayOnLinux or Bottles. All of them have been highly praised by different sources.

The other possibility is to use the latest stable version of wine and dxvk and manually install the game via the offline installers.

Really.

I have that game. I use Linux.

Up to that point, I followed your path.

Download and Install Now is a link to an exe (AKA Microsoft only) installer.

Are you saying that for you, on Ubuntu, that link is somehow a Linux executable?

Because just under that link is also a warning: "GOG GALAXY requires Windows 8 or newer. Download size 1MB (additional space required for GOG GALAXY installation and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition). "

The game store page ( https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_game_of_the_year_edition ) has a logo for Windows. Not for Mac or Linux.

So GOG does not support that game for Linux.



My assumption is that you didn't "install that game for KDE", you merely downloaded the Windows installer.

As others have hinted, you can still play that game in Linux, it just requires some 3rd party tools and might not be perfect.

It works without problems unless wine has virtual desktop enabled.

What does?

In Linux there is a package called WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) that has been around since 1993. It lets you run Windows applications in Linux natively by replicating the same system calls that are in Windows. When you download an exe file, WINE will run it.

Witcher 3 on Linux.

The full name of their application is "GOG Galaxy" as you can see from the screenshot I posted. I just attached another screenshot from the gog website where you can see that that is the official name.

I think what's happening is Lutris maybe also installed GOG Galaxy and that's the one that doesn't work. I'm not exactly sure how Lutris works when it connects to the outside services.

Correct, but if you want to abbreviate the name it has to be Galaxy. Or do you call Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows both Microsoft?

Edit: You do not need Galaxy? If you already use Lutris, use that to install the offline installers.

https://lutris.net/games/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/

Why you bothered with that screenshot I guess we will never know.

I made things perfectly clear with what I said, and if you had used GOG Galaxy instead of just GOG I would never have bothered to reply. The fact you are now trying an attempt to excuse just using GOG, as if I don't really understand, just shows us you have some flawed thinking going on.

When you ask for help, you should always be very clear about things, use proper names for things, as in this case GOG Galaxy or just Galaxy. And the way you have presented other aspects, has made a few things quite unclear.

In reality, you should have taken what I said onboard and just focused on being clearer, and not bothered replying to me and even looking sillier. In fact you look even sillier still, quoting what WINE is.

People are trying to help you, and you are not paying proper attention, just foolishly trying to insinuate we are clueless.