Fatto per Windows. E anche per Mac e Linux.

Windows: tre modi per averlo

On 64-bit Windows 10 and 11, GDM is the stable, recommended build. The download page offers three files:

• The installer (setup.exe), the one to pick unless you have a reason not to. It installs for you alone without administrator rights, or for everyone, and can set up browser integration and open .torrent files and magnet links with GDM.
• La copia portatile (portable.zip), che si esegue da qualsiasi cartella.
• Il semplice archivio zip (x64.zip), gli stessi programmi senza un programma di installazione.

Guida → Verifica aggiornamenti → Aggiorna ora scarica una nuova versione, ne verifica la firma, la installa e si riavvia, sia per il programma di installazione che per i due archivi zip.

Portatile: tutto in una cartella

Unzip the portable copy anywhere, a USB stick included. The download list, the settings, the video helpers and torrent data stay in a data folder next to the program, and nothing is written to the registry. Two things need the installer instead: starting with Windows, and taking downloads from the browser, since both go through the registry. Carry GDM on a USB stick shows the set-up.

Mac e Linux: cosa ottieni oggi

I file di oggi contrassegnati con -experimental sono per macOS 11 e successivi, su Apple Silicon o Intel, e per Linux su x86-64: un'AppImage per la maggior parte delle distribuzioni, un .deb per Ubuntu, Debian, Mint e Pop!_OS, un .rpm per Fedora, openSUSE e RHEL e un .tar.gz con i soli programmi. Facci sapere come è andata, nel bene o nel male.

There, GDM connects itself to your browsers at each start, has its tray icon, follows the system's light or dark look and uses the system's fonts and ffmpeg. The Mac app isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS asks before its first start: right-click it and choose Open (on macOS 15 and later, System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway). A .deb or .rpm update opens in the system's installer. A few parts work only on Windows, and the help says so where it matters.

Linux, verificato su quattro desktop

Linux won't be experimental any more: every change is now checked on a Linux desktop as well as on Windows. GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon were checked window by window: the tray icon and its menu, Minimize to the notification area, Dark Mode support following the desktop, and the browsers handing downloads over (Ubuntu's Snap Firefox, Google Chrome and Brave). A Wayland session runs GDM through XWayland, so menus open under their titles, on tiling compositors such as sway too. The .deb and .rpm were installed in clean Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12 and Fedora 45 systems and bring everything GDM needs; from the AppImage or the .tar.gz, a missing library is named at start with the command that installs it. Update now asks the package manager which package GDM is.

What's left: the Flatpak Firefox isn't checked yet; screen readers (Orca) don't read GDM's windows on Linux yet; and native Wayland windows can't place menus, so XWayland stays the default. macOS stays experimental: its builds are made and tested by GitHub Actions, not yet on a Mac of ours.

Download per Mac più piccoli, aggiornamenti per Linux più leggeri

The Mac gets two smaller downloads, one for Apple Silicon and one for Intel, instead of one universal .dmg of 80 MB. From 0.2.4 or older, update the Mac once by hand: Download in Check for updates opens the release, where you pick your Mac's file. The AppImage can update through AppImageLauncher, Gear Lever and AppImageUpdate, which fetch only the parts that changed. Linux can draw with Vulkan and macOS with Metal, from View → Draw with, while OpenGL stays the default there. In a Wayland session, GDM runs through XWayland so its menus open where you click.