Quoting: JarmerI'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

Eh, Starsiege Tribes still has users (the community even has their own master servers), and that game is only like a decade younger than I am. There's also things like Old School Rune Scape (OSRS), and something similar for World of Warhammer (Classic World of Warhammer or something like that?), so while communities shrink, it's rare for them to simply die off entirely (remember Stop Killing Games).

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I wonder if GNOME will ever have a stable API for extensions so they don't break every other update. It would also be neat if they could merge settings, tweaks, and gconf into a single application so users don't have to scour around quite as much for the setting they want to change (especially if they want to set the keyboard shortcuts to something that makes a lick of sense). I'll probably always remain a KDE fan first and foremost (menu bars >>> hamburger menus), but having those two issues solved would make GNOME a lot more attractive for me.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfSo you think that native Linux apps/games are inherently bad. Why bother with Linux and not just use Windows in that case?

Proprietary games using GNU/Linux APIs are bad. For example, Egosoft's X3 uses a GTK2 application to launch and GTK2 is no longer being updated (it's even been removed from the official Arch repositories). Because it's proprietary software the community can't just take it over and update it to use GTK3 or 4.

I suppose a better way to put it is that native GNU/Linux games aren't bad, they just need more machinery to keep working than games targetting the Windows APIs (although of course one could just set up a system with ancient versions of everything, I mean that's Debian's entire shtick).

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On one hand it's silly to expect Steam to pay royalties for copyrighted material in products that are sold through their store. Especially considering the fact that publishers remove games when the licenses expire (e.g. Project Cars 2).

On the other hand, it would be neat if Steam paying the royalties meant that products containing copyrighted material could be sold through Steam as long as the royalties are paid; DDR/Audiosurf/GH clones could ship with a ton of songs, for example. Anyone could make a Harry Potter/Song of Ice and Fire/Lord of the Rings game.

Of course PRS will try to have their cake AND eat it, but that probably won't happen.

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At the tail end of 2025 I switched from Arch with Cachy repos to OpenSUSE because I wanted SELinux and Cachy doesn't support it. It was perfectly fine aside from that, though I ran the Zen kernel instead of the Cachy kernel so I don't know whether that makes any difference.

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Quoting: tmtvlHow big is Myrient in total? I could maybe spare a couple hundred gigs of storage but I suspect that'd be far too little (and I couldn't distribute anything before its copyright expires anyway).

over 390 terabytes according to this article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

That'll teach me for skimming. Anyway, good luck finding 390 TB storage lying around, last I heard orders are backstopped 'till 2029.

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Quoting: rea987Someone must backup this site. Surely some of the games they will cease to provide will be lost forever.

How big is Myrient in total? I could maybe spare a couple hundred gigs of storage but I suspect that'd be far too little (and I couldn't distribute anything before its copyright expires anyway).

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I presume that those AI chatbots all run locally on my PC without needing any connection to a company I don't trust? Would be quite unfortunate if I had some spyware running while I was, as a completely random example, doing some online banking.

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Quoting: CaldathrasYou'd think that GOG, in the interests of game preservation, would want the original version too, not just the "slightly upgraded" version.

I'm sure they do want it, but if Squeenix says 'nah', there's not much they can do.

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Let's see, some recommendations...

For FPS enjoyers, there's the GZDoom game Hedon Bloodrite [External Link]. Most fun I've had with a FPS since First Encounter Assault Recon ('Fear').

For those who like their action turn-based, there's House of Necrosis [External Link], a bit like if Silent Hill 1 had a baby with Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

For those looking for something more chill and cosy, there's Lake [External Link]. Be a computer-related professional who takes a 2 week sabbatical to deliver mail in her hometown.

And finally, my most anticipated game since Pillars of Eternity, the retro platformer Double Shake [External Link].

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