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Posted June 14, 2025
Recently, for the first time, I had the need to obtain GOG Galaxy client to enable online functionality in a certain game. But I could not find the option to download anywhere on the page gog.com/galaxy. I generally don't encounter any issues with the GOG website using Firefox browser or its forks, so this was quite surprising.

Could anyone confirm, whether is this just my computer's issue, a general issue with Firefox, or I am just looking for the client download at the wrong place? Tried it with version 139.0.1 (64-bit) on linux (flatpack install), it has no extensions or addons, so I would really expect something as basic as a download button to work.
Posted June 14, 2025
Galaxy wouldn't do you much good on Linux anyway. Try Heroic or Lutris.

They're you know, native to the system.
Posted June 14, 2025
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Enguzrad: Recently, for the first time, I had the need to obtain GOG Galaxy client to enable online functionality in a certain game. But I could not find the option to download anywhere on the page gog.com/galaxy. I generally don't encounter any issues with the GOG website using Firefox browser or its forks, so this was quite surprising.

Could anyone confirm, whether is this just my computer's issue, a general issue with Firefox, or I am just looking for the client download at the wrong place? Tried it with version 139.0.1 (64-bit) on linux (flatpack install), it has no extensions or addons, so I would really expect something as basic as a download button to work.
I can't see one either and I use Firefox.

Likely nothing to do with Firefox but just no link.

Go to your account and the specific game in question, check download options and gog still try to trick you into installing galaxy. That link works with Firefox.
Posted June 14, 2025
GOG website checks your operating system from the user-agent string of your browser and doesn't show the download link for Linux
Change the user-agent string to Windows version of Firefox and the website shows you a link to get the windows installer

Or you can just use the same api as GOG Galaxy uses to check for newer version and get the download link from the json response
https://remote-config.gog.com/components/webinstaller?component_version=2.0.0

wget $(wget --quiet "https://remote-config.gog.com/components/webinstaller?component_version=2.0.0" -O - | sed -e 's;\\;;g' -e 's;.*path=/\(.*exe\).*;https://cdn.gog.com/\1;')
Post edited June 14, 2025 by Sude
Posted June 17, 2025
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dnovraD: Galaxy wouldn't do you much good on Linux anyway. Try Heroic or Lutris.

They're you know, native to the system.
Thanks, but this is not really helpful regarding my problem. Though, I already have it solved, since I managed to get a friend to download the client for me and I installed it in the prefix where I have my game. I was just curious, why I could not download it myself.

Which brings me to the other posts - thanks for clearing this up for me guys. That is really dumb that GOG just hides that button on linux and won't even tell you... That trick of getting it through a game download is good, but it should really just be visible regardless of the used OS. Do they expect linux users to complain about a Windows executable not working or what? Nonsense.
Posted June 17, 2025
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Enguzrad: That is really dumb that GOG just hides that button on linux and won't even tell you... That trick of getting it through a game download is good, but it should really just be visible regardless of the used OS. Do they expect linux users to complain about a Windows executable not working or what? Nonsense.
There is a straightforward workaround for this. Head over to https://www.gog.com/account and click on the big, blue "Download and Install Now" button after selecting the game you want to install and setting the "System" to "Windows" (top-left corner). That installer will install GOG Galaxy as part of the installation process.

By the way, if you are using Bottles, you can install GOG Galaxy via its "Installers" section too.
Posted June 17, 2025
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Enguzrad: That is really dumb that GOG just hides that button on linux and won't even tell you... That trick of getting it through a game download is good, but it should really just be visible regardless of the used OS. Do they expect linux users to complain about a Windows executable not working or what? Nonsense.
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Hurricane0440: There is a straightforward workaround for this. Head over to https://www.gog.com/account and click on the big, blue "Download and Install Now" button after selecting the game you want to install and setting the "System" to "Windows" (top-left corner). That installer will install GOG Galaxy as part of the installation process.

By the way, if you are using Bottles, you can install GOG Galaxy via its "Installers" section too.
Thanks, telling the prefix manager to install it is a good idea too. I don't even know Bottles (so many managers... years back I had to make due just with PlayOnLinux), but it made me check and Lutris, that I use, actually also has an install script for GOG Galaxy, which seems to download it right from the GOG server. I just didn't think of this, because I am so used to install everything by hand.
Posted June 19, 2025
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Enguzrad: Thanks, telling the prefix manager to install it is a good idea too. I don't even know Bottles (so many managers... years back I had to make due just with PlayOnLinux), but it made me check and Lutris, that I use, actually also has an install script for GOG Galaxy, which seems to download it right from the GOG server. I just didn't think of this, because I am so used to install everything by hand.
Lutris is a solid choice. Bottles is really more of a Windows software manager than a game manager.
Posted June 19, 2025
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Hurricane0440: Lutris is a solid choice. Bottles is really more of a Windows software manager than a game manager.
Also, neither Bottles, nor it's Next fork have had a serious update in a while, pending some kind of rewrite that may or may not emerge.
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