Quoting: damarrinIt certainly needs work. The little steam window says "Play Primordia" and "Play Windowed". If I choose the former, there's no sound and the game crashes to the desktop when I click start game. The latter option works ok, but the game runs in a window. Alt-Enter fixes that.

I'm still not sure if I'm running the native version or not.

They had the "problem" that the game was among the Proton white listed games. They made Valve fix this now. The other problems also seem to be gone for me.

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This [External Link] needs to be quoted:

I can include Mark Yohalem (our writer) and Victor Pflug (our artist) and Nathaniel Chambers (music) and everyone at Wadjet Eye Games and everyone that is a part of this game, that we're doing this because you guys support us back.

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I grabbed the game and it seems the port is not quite there. Got problems with mouse movement and stuff. But I'll happily wait for fixes (like they did for Strangeland for Linux problems), and/or, as an exception to my rules, play with Proton (whichever comes first ;) ).

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Quoting: GalaedriaMy first experience with Linux was in the 1990s - I was a teenager (started a GW-Basic programming club at my all-girl high school) and I loved the idea of freely sharing code and working together to improve technology; my Dad had a client whose son was studying IT who got me a copy of either Red Hat or Fedora.

Fedora didn't yet exist back then.

Quoting: GalaedriaIt came on 16 CDROMs and it took me something like 8 hours to install all of them (had to stop and start several times because of missing dependencies on another CDROM that hadn't been installed yet) and when I finally got to boot up into Linux for my first time, it didn't recognise my keyboard! Had to reinstall Windows so I could use my computer. :sad: It took 20 years of trying various distributions that either didn't work for me or weren't very user-friendly but I finally became a full-time Linux user (including for gaming) about 5 years ago when I tried Linux Mint and I still love the Linux philosophy and I'm trying to convince my friends and family to give it a go.

Somebody said lately in the GoL comments: It's hard to convince them with words; it's easier to show them, here, take a look, it's easy, it has got all you need...
Did that with my mother-in-law. It worked very well until she got a 88 bucks printer which I couldn't get to work from remote. (If I only had known that printers work easily nowadays on Linux via that WiFi stuff I keep forgetting the name of...!)

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Quoting: CyrilWonderful, can't wait to try the native version as I already have the Windows version from GOG.
But I'm wondering, what is the difference between this new Linux release and the old one?

As far as I know, they just couldn't upload it to Steam until now.

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YES!
Heard very good things about it!
And the developers are the kind of people that want to offer their games to as many people as possible and are porting for this reason.

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The original is a very good game. If you're into point and click and maybe some more lines of text than strictly necessary for the story, you should get this one!

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceIs anybody else getting fed up with limited time demos ? I don't even bother with them anymore. I work six days a week, not going to schedule time to play a damn demo.

Well, while it sure would be nicer to have the demo around without time limit, my happiness that demos are a thing again is way bigger. I play one if I find the time - and if not, it's not like I've lost something compared to not so long ago, when most games didn't have a demo in the first place.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI saw Enlightenment DR13 on the web and wanted a prettier desktop, that started my road down the Linux path.

"up" is the word you've been searching for! ;)

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Quoting: PhiladelphusAfter growing up exclusively with Windows (never even used a Mac), I discovered when I started my astronomy degree that no one in astronomy uses Windows (it's all Linux or macOS). I remember being a bit weirded out and repulsed when I first installed Ubuntu and tried to use it back in 2010 (I've just discovered I even wrote a very angry blog post [External Link] about it :whistle:). However, through exposure to it at work and the help of a very knowledgeable good friend, by 2014 when I built my first gaming desktop I put Linux Mint Debian Edition on it and haven't looked back since. Other than a switch to Debian and a graphics card upgrade from my brother I'm still typing on that very desktop (ok, I also had to replace a RAM module that failed), though I'm hoping to finally do some major upgrades next year. I also just discovered that I wrote a blog post [External Link] five years ago for Linux's 25th birthday complaining about using Windows 8 at work (which I genuinely do not remember using at this point), so how the tables have turned!

(Look forward to my upcoming blog post, "MacOS, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways…" :grin:)

Thanks for sharing! Did you ever write up what made you change your mind this much? :)

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