Question about patches for Linux version

[winhazel2525]

I understand that between GoG not being Steam, Linux not being Windows and us, Linux users, supposedly being a bunch of hardy penguin-wranglers these are lower priority, but not even having the hotfix (and, in my case, having a different checksum from the official 2.2.0 for no apparent reason) is a bit... demoralizing.

Or am I actually the only one who plays the GoG version on Linux?

 

[Aethilan]

You are not alone, fellow penguin-wrangler.

Though I am, in fact, quite an amateur wrangler of penguins.

I haven't had the game for long enough to comment much on the speed or lack thereof when it comes to Linux support. I will note, though, that I'm a little confused by one part of your post. When I get on GoG, I do indeed have access to 2.2.3 (just double-checked). If you don't, it may be an issue with your GoG account rather than Paradox?

One odd and slightly annoying bug with 2.2.3 for Linux has been that I can no longer run the game directly with start menu shortcuts for some reason. I have to go into the Stellaris directory and run ./start.sh in terminal directly - and the terminal has to remain open while it's running or the game crashes. Not sure why; it worked fine in early versions of Le Guin. In fact, to be fair, I don't even know for sure whether it's an issue with 2.2.3 or some strange side effect of some recent kernel upgrades.

Anyway, don't know if any of this helped you, though I hope it at least gave you a mild sense of companionship to know that there are other GoG-Linux-Stellaris people out there. Either way, stay strong, and remember not to let any light apertures or fruit objects contaminate your synthetic ascension process

 

[alexti]

I would have bought Stellaris on GOG, but at the time it was only available on Steam On Steam, PDS provides 1st class Linux support - releases and patches are always coming at the same time as on Windows. Can't help with GOG - I can only tell that Stellaris became available on GOG quite recently.

 

[Black_Shade]

I would have bought Stellaris on GOG, but at the time it was only available on Steam On Steam, PDS provides 1st class Linux support - releases and patches are always coming at the same time as on Windows. Can't help with GOG - I can only tell that Stellaris became available on GOG quite recently.

Yeah, if you're going to use Linux, you should probably use Steam. It just makes things a bit easier on the Linux side, plus with Proton integrated now you can basically play the entire Steam library on Linux, even if the games don't necessarily support it natively. Say what you will about Steam, but their support for Linux has been outstanding, and their pushing of linux/steam OS has dramatically improved driver support as well. Meanwhile, GoG can't even get Galaxy running on Linux.

For the OP, what I'd do is see if you can add your GoG version of Stellaris to Steam via the "add a non-Steam game to my library" option, and then see if you can download the beta patch that way. If you have an axe to grind against Steam and don't want to use it for whatever reason, well... that's your own fault and you probably shouldn't try and game on linux while hating steam at the same time, as Steam is the only platform that actively supports Linux users. You could try and complain to GoG about treating Linux users like second class citizens, but you probably won't have much luck though. They've made it clear they have nothing but disdain for Linux users after the Witcher 2 linux port fiasco and the fallout stemming from that. I doubt GoG/Cd Projekt red will ever make a real push to accommodate Linux users.

 

[Kaganis]

One odd and slightly annoying bug with 2.2.3 for Linux has been that I can no longer run the game directly with start menu shortcuts for some reason. I have to go into the Stellaris directory and run ./start.sh in terminal directly - and the terminal has to remain open while it's running or the game crashes.

Does it still need the terminal open if you run it with "./start.sh &" rather than just "./start.sh" - because that will be very weird if so....

If you don't use the "&" after the command, then closing the terminal will make the terminal close down what it's doing, in this case running Stellaris!

HTH.

 

[alexti]

Yeah, if you're going to use Linux, you should probably use Steam. It just makes things a bit easier on the Linux side, plus with Proton integrated now you can basically play the entire Steam library on Linux, even if the games don't necessarily support it natively. Say what you will about Steam, but their support for Linux has been outstanding, and their pushing of linux/steam OS has dramatically improved driver support as well. Meanwhile, GoG can't even get Galaxy running on Linux.

You probably misunderstood my comment. I don't have any problems with other Linux games I have on GoG, I just don't have Stellaris there. It's good that Steam is encouraging Linux support, but I have no complains about Linux support on GoG either. I dislike Steam's clunky interface which makes it unnecessary difficult to see what patches change (especially important for Paradox games because they often change game rules in the patches), but it's a minor issue.