Thank you everybody, I went with Heroic Launcher
I’d like to log into my GoG account and click on “install game” from within the game store without having to manually download the installer, manually install the game, and then add it to the game store to act as a launcher (like steam does). Seems to defeat the purpose of a game store.
Purchasing the game on the web is fine, it’s more the game management aspect I’m looking for. Does that exist?
Uh, have you not heard of Heroic? It’s by far the most comfortable method to install and run GOG games on Linux. I think under the hood it uses lgogdownloader or some other CLI GOG downloader.
To reiterate the above:
I don’t want a GUI “game launcher”, thanks. I have a number of general-purpose, more-capable systems for launching programs. Not Lutris, not Heroic, not any program that requires throwing up a window and is intended to just start games. I don’t have a “word processor launcher” or a “web browser launcher”, and I don’t need a “game launcher”.
I’d dump the Steam client if a number of Steam games didn’t require it to be running for their DRM to work. Hell, for a few games, like Caves of Qud, which don’t rely on Steam for DRM, where I want to run the thing on other systems and don’t want Steam even installed, I do exactly that.
EDIT: Sorry, guess I was a little snappish, if you were just suggesting it WRT OP’s concerns. Having to use the Steam client to launch Steam games has been something of a pet peeve of mine; ordinarily, one can configure pretty much whatever one wants on Linux, but Steam’s a closed-source black box, and the source of several of my “my computer doesn’t do precisely what I want” irritations.
You may not want one, but the OP is specifically adding about one. So while your post may work for you, it is not what was asked about.