This new effort started when the new CEO bought back a majority of shares. He was one of the original owners. Back then their Linux efforts were also better.

Oh, come on. They are right about the DRM, I can give them the benefit of the doubt.

Its a bit better than that, its a bit closer to an all in one launcher /downloader client for all your games from (steam)/gog/epic/etc

I think it also has integrations for some other things too, so you can use it to launch all your games from various launchers instead of remembering which games are on which launchers and opening each one to search for the game you want to play. It centralized your games into one spot which can be nice.

You know why we say it every year? Because every year is the year of the Linux desktop

Only occasionally and they will say 'sorry'.

Can someone give me context to this reply? I have no clue, but based on the up-downvotes involved, it sounds important.

Maybe some Celtic crosses and totenkopfs too

I believe thatbis the point of GOG Galaxy, otherwise you can just use the native installers.

Hopefully they add Wine/Proton integration like Steam and Heroic have.

Heroic is ultimately outside of GOG's sphere of influence. If you decide to officially lean on them and they decide to drop GOG or Herioc development entirely they'd have to scramble for a replacement.

And honestly I only use Herioc to interface with GOG, i'd probably prefer use the official application if there was any.

Idk, some user here who otherwise is supremely anti-corporation, anti-DRM and anti-closed source said they absolutely can NOT use GOG over Steam because there's no native Linux client. Apparently that's a complete showstopper for some people, despite the existence of Heroic and many other tools you could use. "The games just don't work"

Oh no a multiplatform app that just works, I would 200 percent prefer to have a native all that will instill the Lord's fear into the heart of several un(der)paid interns. Blood and bones I say , blood and bones

Fine by me. As long as it does the job.

And completely redundant because there are already FOSS game managers that support GoG they could contribute to?