I’m a Linux Boy, have been for more than 20 years. I find that most games run better in Linux than they do in Windows, using Wine. I love Gog because nearly all of their games install and run flawlessly under Wine.

I wish Gog Galaxy would run under Wine as well.

The problem – Wine doesn’t support the latest versions of Microsoft Dot Net. Games don’t seem to require the latest version, but Gog Galaxy does.

I’m currently playing No Man’s Sky 3.75. I’m autistic and I don’t go in for the social side of multiplayer games but it would be nice if I could find and explore other people’s bases sometimes.

And for anyone interested, the setup I use is very simple. I created a new 64 bit Wine Prefix (fake windows drive) for NMS simply called NMS375.

$ Winearch=win64 WINEPREFIX=/home/username/NMS375 winecfg

I ran Winetricks on that prefix to install only two components – Corefonts and dotnet4.0

$ WINEPREFIX=/home/username/NMS375 winetricks

Then I used the command line to install the game:

$ WINEPREFIX=/home/username/NMS375 wine ./setup*.exe

That’s it. The installer puts an icon on your desktop and it now plays perfectly.

Cheers,

Andrew.

So, instead of running Galaxy, which is a terrible closed source project to no benefit of users, most users prefer to use something like the following:
MinGalaxy which is a minimalistic client.
Lutris, which is what I use in preference.
And whatever that python galaxy thing is called.

All of those run in native code rather than being an awful hacky kludge.

oh look another alt troll acc...
1 game and says love gog games :D

You're far better off completely dumping Galaxy for this "manufactured incompatibility" reason alone and just use the offline installers. There are some good tools / wrappers available:-

Lutris - https://lutris.net/

Adamhm's Linux Wine Wrappers -
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/adamhms_linux_wine_wrappers_news_faq_discussion/page1

Play.it Scripts - https://www.dotslashplay.it/en/start

@ Darvond and AB2012:

Thanks for the tips, definitely worth a look.

@ Orkhepaj:

Nothing helpful or interesting from you, just troll like behaviour. You noticed only 1 game "registered" but didn't notice the age of the account. Get a life.

When command line tools are ok you can use lgogdownloader to download the offline installers or install games directly via Galaxy API. For Galaxy online support you also might have a look at comet. lgogdownloader works very well for me since years, comet I've not yet tried.