If you prefer to buy your games for Linux on GOG, there's a fresh update to Minigalaxy, the open source simple GOG client.
Compared with the likes of Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher that bundle lots of features and different stores, Minigalaxy has a singular focus — getting your GOG games simply and easily on Linux. Either Native Linux games or Windows games with Wine.
The major changes in Minigalaxy version 1.3.2 include:
- Completely reworked windows wine installation. This should solve a lot of problems with failing game installs. Innoextract (if installed) is only used to detect and configure the installation language. (thanks to GB609)
- Variables and arguments in game settings can now contain blanks when quoted shell-style (thanks to GB609)
- Minigalaxy will now create working Desktop Shortcuts for wine games (thanks to GB609)
- Fix games with binaries in a directory not launching in some cases
- Minor UI change in the dialog for third-party logins (thanks to GB609)
- Desktop shortcuts created by Minigalaxy will now be updated with environment and launch argument changes from the game's property dialog when OK is clicked (thanks to GB609)
- Clean-up and fixes of the code used for grid and list style library views (thanks to GB609)
- Desktop shortcuts for windows games can now have icons, if gog provides them in the game info api 'images' section (thanks to GB609)
- Fixed a bug in download_manager that prevents correct resume of downloads with 50%+ progress after restart (thanks to GB609)
- Make sure all translations are included in releases
Nice to see the project has picked up another developer, GB609, who did a lot of work for this release.
See more on the GitHub page.
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