Ah, I still love this series. Although I'm quite a bit older than you, this was a long time before I got into Linux in 2001. Quite a few hoops you have to go through to get some of these running, I admire your patience.

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Excellent! I really enjoyed the first one, it was so atmospheric and the riddles didn't hurt my smooth brain so much.

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Interesting, thanks for the answer! I know almost nothing about HGL, I'll try to find out more.

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Quoting: sourpuzInteresting, how do you prefer to install them? I've had mixed results with Lutris and Bottles. For some games it's excellent, others - which should run via Wine - seem to be hopeless.
And I'm a little wary of the install scripts on lutris.net, I found one of them downloading some shady stuff.

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Quoting: DesumShame GOG's Linux support is rather... lacking. Wine not withstanding.

Could have fooled me as I own hundreds of Linux games from GOG. I find Steam's stance on DRM free to be lacking. I know you were trying to take a dig at GOG's lack of a Linux client but I am one of the people who don't want a client. GOG's offline installers give me exactly the experience I want.

I usually use Heroic Game Launcher to launch the game and configure it to use DXVK/VKD3D/Esycn/Fsync/etc. To install them I just right click and choose to open the installer with Wine. I have had games work better than Proton this way and had others work worse. I use Lutris for native Linux games but prefer HGL for Windows games.

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Interesting, how do you prefer to install them? I've had mixed results with Lutris and Bottles. For some games it's excellent, others - which should run via Wine - seem to be hopeless.
And I'm a little wary of the install scripts on lutris.net, I found one of them downloading some shady stuff.

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Quoting: DesumShame GOG's Linux support is rather... lacking. Wine not withstanding.

Could have fooled me as I own hundreds of Linux games from GOG. I find Steam's stance on DRM free to be lacking. I know you were trying to take a dig at GOG's lack of a Linux client but I am one of the people who don't want a client. GOG's offline installers give me exactly the experience I want.

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I demand we be able to print out the source code and preserve it in book form!

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Oh, I'm definitely interested in this! Atom RPG was competently made IMHO, but put me off with its weird attempt at dark humor. This however might be right up my alley. But I wish they were a tad more creative with their naming conventions. "Nova Drakonia"? Come on.

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Oh, ohhh, this is right up my alley!

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Quoting: sourpuz

Quoting: Install

Quoting: 14Too many Windows games. GOG doesn't help make playing Windows games on Linux easy in any way.

Just scroll down and use the filter for linux games only.

Problem is, GOG's Linux installers are obsolete and haven't been updated in years, as GOG has officially stopped supporting Linux. Lots of the installers don't work. I mostly use the Windows versions via Lutris/Wine.

Ah shit, here we go again...

Source?

Well, I don't want to spread disinformation, but I've read it (can't remember where, so I admit it might be incorrect).
But just look at the store page for every Linux game, the only supported Linux versions are massively outdated (Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04). I'm pretty sure I remember they publically stated that they would continue selling Linux games, but couldn't officially support them due to their revenue problems and the large number of different distributions. Thus, no support for everything after 18.04.

Many installers still work, sure, but just a while ago I had one that asked for an older openSSL version, it didn't work with newer revisions.

I like GOG and still buy games there, but as I said, I've had more luck with Wine/Lutris and the Windows installers.

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Quoting: Install

Quoting: 14Too many Windows games. GOG doesn't help make playing Windows games on Linux easy in any way.

Just scroll down and use the filter for linux games only.

Problem is, GOG's Linux installers are obsolete and haven't been updated in years, as GOG has officially stopped supporting Linux. Lots of the installers don't work. I mostly use the Windows versions via Lutris/Wine.

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Hats off, you know how to write, good sir. I enjoy this series immensely!

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