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Latest Comments by WorMzy
Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
2 Feb 2022 at 10:20 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweThat issue is now fixed. Somehow the cron got mixed up, and there we two entries for November. I've adjusted one to be October, as it was right at the start of November (so it should have been October's data). All looking good now.
I think it's happened again with January's data showing as February.

Half-Life 2 getting a new UI in prep for Steam Deck
26 Jan 2022 at 10:27 am UTC Likes: 6

Oh dear, I hope that it not working on Linux isn't a sign that they're planning a proton-by-default policy for the Deck, even if there's a native Linux version available. It'll hardly encourage devs to release native versions of games 'for more control' if that's the case. :unsure:

Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
18 Jan 2022 at 6:08 pm UTC

Meh. I'm pretty sure Activision Blizzard never released anything on Linux, so this news makes no odds to me.

God of War is now on Steam and runs out of the box on Linux with Proton
15 Jan 2022 at 11:33 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: poiuz
Quoting: WorMzyOh boy, another developer that can't be arsed to support Linux, but will still benefit financially from open source software picking up their slack. Whoopee.
Where did they ask you to buy the game?
Oh, whoops, I thought making the game available for purchase on a digital game store meant they meant they wanted people to purchase it. My bad, I clearly misinterpreted their actions. They put the game up on Steam because they wanted people to.. uhhh.. re-evaluate their understanding of renaissance art, or something.

Quoting: poiuzYou're throwing your money into their pockets like you've got no choice. Clearly you don't care about a Linux port so why should the developers?
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm throwing money into this developer's pockets, but I can assure you that I'm not. No Tux, no bux; as the saying goes. I want developers to support Linux gamers, not just profit from them.

God of War is now on Steam and runs out of the box on Linux with Proton
15 Jan 2022 at 12:04 am UTC Likes: 7

Oh boy, another developer that can't be arsed to support Linux, but will still benefit financially from open source software picking up their slack. Whoopee.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from GamingOnLinux
23 Dec 2021 at 8:14 pm UTC Likes: 8

Thank you for all your hard work, Liam and co. Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy your well earned time off. :smile:

The Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live
23 Dec 2021 at 11:58 am UTC

Here's hoping that this time next year, a lot of those devs that have previously been too lazy to release native Linux versions have seen the error of their ways. In the meantime, there are plenty of devs out there who are worthy of receiving my money.

Paradox takes another stab at sorting Surviving Mars newest DLC
8 Dec 2021 at 6:31 pm UTC

Quoting: Alm888It still segfaults immediately after entering main menu, unless I disable my network connection. It tries to phone home and display Paradox site with legal stuff informing me that I must agree with their "privacy policy" (in other words, agree to hand them over all my personal information), but fails, most probably because the game was compiled against "libcurl-gnutls.so.4" instead of "libcurl.so" and my hot-wiring is not entirely successful (manages to fool the game into launching, but fails to actually deliver if needed).

The pre-previous version (Tito) worked flawlessly.
libcurl-gnutls.so.4 is compiled against GnuTLS [External Link], it's not the same as libcurl.so and it's not surprising that you get segfaults if you're masquerading one as the other. :wink:

Wine 6.23 is out now continuing the PE conversion work
4 Dec 2021 at 10:11 pm UTC

I don't understand the whore PE-push, are the wine devs essentially saying that native Linux executable formats are subpar for executing code on Linux, or is there some super-optimzed PE-to-ELF translation layer at work here?

Scientific evolution sim Thrive is now available on itch.io and Steam
27 Nov 2021 at 11:36 pm UTC Likes: 1

Looks similar to early Spore, we'll see how dumbed down it gets over time, but wishlish'd for now.