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Simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy v1.3.2 released with improved game installs
(www.gamingonlinux.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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Looks good, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a compelling reason to use this over Heroic, if you already have that installed.
I mean, Heroic straight up doesn't work for me and I have no idea why. I've resorted to launching GOG through Steam and then installing and launching games through that. But it's mega cursed so I might give this a go.
Oof, that is bad.
You could also try Bottles.
I've never tried Bottles before. Does it differ meaningfully from winetricks/protontricks? That's what I normally use to manage wine prefixes. Never managed to get GOG working with winetricks tho.
It's got it's own dependency manager, and GOG is one of the pre-configured applications in the Gaming section, so it makes sure that everything needed to run GOG is there. I've never used winetricks/protontricks on their own, but I think the main difference is the sandboxed nature, the devs recommend installing Bottles as a flatpak, and then it makes it's own prefixes within that environment. They also recommend making new bottles for each application, so like if you also wanted EGS or the EA store, you'd make new bottles for each of those rather than keeping them all under one "gaming" profile, for example. Here's docs if you're a reader like me: