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Pornographic and nude content should have a warning. And young kids should not have access to it. The mechanics of enforcing that are debatable, sure.

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Happy birthday! Hopefully one day PayPal stops being such an unbearable chore for you and you 1) stop treating non-Patreon donators like scum and 2) stop suckling on the ad-based-revenue teat (which you swore to never do, way back when). I might be inclined to re-activate my monthly donations if that happens.

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Happy birthday GoL!

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Nostalgic when you look at early posts

Wait, it started as an April Fool's joke?!?!? :D
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2010/04/welcome-to-gamingonlinux/

I don't think I was reading GoL regularly back then (happypenguin.org was still a thing), but in those pre-Steam days, the Humble Indie Bundles were HUGE for Linux.

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@1xok blocked in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Vietnam, a few more regions. Check SteamDB

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Don't care if you are 16, you're still home for 9!

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Happy birthday!

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Old enough to drive now.
Get out Tux Kart.

Happy bday GameingOnLinux

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Happy Birthday 🎂
Thanks for all the great articles.

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Happy birthday and congrats. I have only been around the past year after getting a steam deck and check your site just about everyday. It’s been a great resource and I’ve learned a lot. Thank you.

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Happy Birthday! I'm really glad I found this site, as it's been a huge help getting my desktop switched over to Linux as well as helping me tweak my Steam Deck (plus I just like the site layout and the articles are fun to read). Here's to many more!

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Happy Birthday and thank you! 🎂

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It's all hand-crafted spelling errors and terrible grammar here.

🤣 Can relate!

This reminds me that, come July 12, it'll have been eleven years since I built my first desktop and put Linux on it. Most of those original parts are still going strong! (So far only one RAM module [out of four] and the PSU have failed.)

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Happy Birthday! :)

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I think the best explanation from that thread was ...

I am a lawyer and a huge gamer. In fact, I somewhat specialize in law that relates to video games. I see a lot of people asking why the video game company has any control with our ability to play on what is essentially a rented PC when we own the game. The problem is that this is a false premise. You are not actually buying the game. You are buying a license to use the game in certain ways and the actual owners of the property rights of the game are permitted to decide the exact ways you can use that game. It is kind of like if you purchase a ticket to enter a museum, you don't own the museum and the actual owners of the museum can tell you exactly how you can behave and where you can go once you enter.

It makes sense. This is essentially new tech and the developer's lawyers aren't ready for it yet. Still, I think this thought expressed what I was feeling about the matter even better ...

Publishers are greedy and want money on top of the sale of the game that they'd get if they supported the platform.

I think that summed it up the best for me.

That being said, it doesn't really affect me. I don't game online. I am usually offline when I can find time for a little video gaming. (No Internet at home. I have to do my O/S updates, Steam game installs and Lutris game installs at work, after hours. I have a great boss!)

Besides, there is one great big negative to using GFN -- the ongoing subscription fee! You pay it whether or not you're able to use it ...

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Happy Birthday!

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Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux!

The only gaming news site I read. I also love the guides.

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@TheRiddick and @Klaas

An impressive wish list but I'm not sure we'll see Vulkan support anytime soon. Not sure about multi-threading though.

One of the developers on the OpenMW team (AnyOldName3) has said "We'd have to drop OSG support in favour of VSG support and that would mean OpenMW would become incompatible with lots of hardware it currently supports.". He says they lack the manpower to implement both.

OpenMW on Vulkan API?
https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?t=7469

VulkanSceneGraph and vsgopenmw are unofficial experimental forks. There are apparently no short-term or long-term plans to integrate vsgopenmw into the main project at this time. The most recent comment on the matter was in March 2025 (see above link).

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Where's the Birthday Cake?

This Atomic Shrimp video was released yesterday, and has a really easy-to-make cake in it. Probably going to give this a go for myself: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gg2jSmos5iQ

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Happy Birthday, and thanks for all the work Liam, I always enjoy visiting this place on the web.

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If you really want to try it out, there are guides out there that show you how to use FSR4 on Linux but official support is still ongoing and making some progress. Here's one video that shows how to get FSR4 on Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajHRwWvem1M

That's excellent. Looking much sooner than I thought.

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Happy BD!

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Happy Birthday

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It's a shame you can now only play games that are approved. When it started you could play your whole library but publishers complained. I don't see why publishers should get to dictate what I play the games I've paid for on.

@ObsoleteGaming
I remember reading about this back then when Geforce Now was new and these companies didn't like that you could stream your entire library of Steam games because they wanted a piece of the Nvidia pie when it comes to licensing. They want Nvidia to pony up money for a license to run the games the publishers want to allow on the service.

Here's a Reddit threat that someone asked about why they couldn't stream all their Steam games on Geforce Now: https://www.reddit.com/r/GeForceNOW/comments/19018ca/why_cant_we_just_stream_any_game_we_own/

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... but... FSR4 doesn't work on Linux and it won't for quite a while .... ?

@ElamanOpiskelija
If you really want to try it out, there are guides out there that show you how to use FSR4 on Linux but official support is still ongoing and making some progress. Here's one video that shows how to get FSR4 on Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajHRwWvem1M

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Found you a year and a half ago once I made the switch to Linux full time, been coming back ever since. Love all the Linux based news and the way articles explain things. Here to many more years.

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Happy Sweet 16 GamingOnLinux!

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It should be illegal that if you buy something, that it requires the cloud to be functional.

If this initiative goes through and actually gets some results then i really hope it's just a first step towards gaining back the ownership on things we buy, not just games.

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Happy birthday

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