The amount of people that don't understand the difference between native gaming and Proton is simply astonishing. Proton is not a replacement and if you value yourself as a consumer you should never be complacent with a proton version. The state of software and how companies behave digitally is entirely responsibility of the consumer, just gather some courage and demand what you want, and don't yield if the company doesn't support your platform and privacy concerns. Just don't buy it, it's a game you don't need it! And this includes mac people! Don't allow software companies to Rosetta all over your face!

Having said that, the other side of the argument is also way off. Armello explained that they will keep updating the platforms to be on the same release/content as the Windows version, for both Linux and MacOS. Retaining all functionality EXCEPT: Crossplay, private games and "Party".

Source: https://armello.com/partysupport/ [External Link]

Why did this happen? As Stated on armello's discussion board, website and forum, they don't handle their own servers, and they don't code their own multiplayer logic, instead they use a third party provider for all their multiplayer features. This provider doesn't support anything other than windows on the desktop, so the Armello team decided to comply with this.

Maybe the Armello team were using something like GameSpark which went down a couple months ago and will shut servers down on September. Many games had to move to other third party backends, and one of the most popular as of today is Microsoft's Azure Gaming, which you guessed is only Windows. We don't know for sure.
Personally I think it's embarassing to not host your own game's backend, and it's disrespectful to your customers if you don't have this transparency, most people didn't knew this was going on until it exploded.

I own Armello on Steam, I never played with other people, for me it was just a single player board game to blow some steam off. I play native games and stay with them. Sadly this news from Armello has pushed me to stop playing it, because I don't want second hand citizenship from them.

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I just want to say with a N5030 cpu and 8gb ram you can play a ton of games on linux. I really enjoy using my low end laptop from time to time to get away from the desktop rig, and I play a ton of games which run quite well with the proper settings.

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I'm a bit confused, there are tons of great games that run with Proton. Why does this windows game get an article?

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I absolutely recommend Northgard, however:
Only the base game is needed, the full campaign is playable there, if you don't purchase the DLCs you just can't use that Civilization, the DLCs don't add content, it just enables you to use additional factions.

Personally I bought all the DLCs on a sale (we have another sale in 3 weeks). They enable me to play said Clans on Multiplayer, single player scenarios for practice, and also for my favorite mode: Conquest. These are like 'campaigns' without cinematic/lore, that center around you playing the same faction through many challenges.

TL;DR Only get the base game on a Sale, enjoy it, and if you really like it, buy the DLCs for more goodness.

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From what I read in the past, many types of plastic when recycled leave lots of C02 behind, because you have to select it from the landfill, transport it to a facility, melt, purify, recolor, re-cast and do a new finish on all the pieces. In many cases the carbon footprint can be even larger when you recycle it, in comparison with creating new plastic parts, which are cheaper too.

This is a nice idea, and having waste piling up is horrible, but I don't think having this PC is either going to help the environment, nor the consumer, which has to rely that all the interconnects are well made, and that the company is going to stick around at least a decade, offering replacement parts and upgrades at a reasonable price.

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Quoting: tccoxon-snip-

I discovered this game through this article, I bought it, liked it and recommended it to some close friends who weren't aware this game exist either, they both bought it. We all use Linux.

We get info about games from sites like this, we aren't big youtube watchers, we don't really follow reddit. Steam recommendations as well as "featured" on itch.io are some other places where we find cool games. We pay attention to recommendations from friends, as well as people on channels/communities we visit and participate in.

I get we are kinda niche, but let's be fair, these type of games are niche as well haha. Just my input on how I think people like me and my friends can find out about cool games to purchase.
Thanks for supporting my platform!

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While I do like the work System76 does, It's wrong to call this laptop's firmware open source. It is not.
They are using Coreboot as a wrapper for Intel's binary blob. The blob is what ultimately controls the system, and it still enables the Intel Management Engine.
Source for this? The very same repo linked in the article. It uses Intel's FSP binaries as a dependency.
https://github.com/intel/FSP/tree/c80123384aa74ee0a0b011ad4e8a0afc533c8195 [External Link]

What is the benefit of this? You get your own custom and fine grained firmware control for all the laptop internal capabilities, from fanspeed to power states, ram settings and cpu clocks. Yet we are still running proprietary code on a CPU controlled by the management engine, which has network, storage, cpu and ram access.

Can the IME be mitigated by this firmware? Yes, it can be halted by doing some editing, yet we are still running the proprietary code, and "trusting" that we actually stoped the IME.

I'd prefer if this articles talked about this, Purism does this as well, there are very few real Open Source Firmware projects out there.

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