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GOG.com is a DRM-free games and movies distribution service that is part of the CD Projekt Group. GOG.com is also a "sister" company to CD Projekt Red, developers of the Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077.

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I am thinking of buying a large USB drive dedicated to archiving the installers for all of my GOG purchases. What is your favorite FOSS GOG Downloader?

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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

In general, I use Lutris. But since you want to just do a backup, I guess https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader is what you are looking for

[–] Kelvino@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gogg is another downloader, but lgogdownloader is the most popular.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

I use lgogdownloader.

[–] oblomov@sociale.network 1 points 1 week ago

@JoMiran I use lgogdownloader

https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

from the command line on the my home server.