Quoting: KijBetaI got to update my info this month with the best change ever!
I'm Officially no longer dual booting windows!
The final transition was simultaneously more difficult and much easier than I thought it would be.

Congrats!

Want to tell more about it?

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Quoting: ageresYesterday I tried to run a DOS game with Wine. It turns out that it laucnhes DOS games in DOSBox. So, does using DOSBox count as using Wine?

Well, if you "tried to run a DOS game with Wine", it does count as WINE. :D
If you use DOSBox directly, it doesn't.

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Even this bundle doesn't have anything I don't own, so I looked on their web site to find... they're working on a new game!

What is this internet highway all the kids are faxing about these days? Can I go on an incredible road trip and make lots of broken new friends along the way? Isn’t Tomorrow Corporation made of three grumpy old people who don’t know how to use social media? Yes!

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Anybody care to write up an article about the "other" (non-Proton) compatibility tools, their state and how to use them?

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Go get it.

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Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
Quite good point and click adventure!
... and it's native for Linux. :)

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Quoting: orochi_kyoAnd the argument around "money for developing" I just wonder how indie studios has funded their games in their last TEN YEARS before EGS existed, even now what would happen when EGS stop funding games as they claim this exclusivity thing is not forever.

You can read up an example here:

... including living in my office for almost two years so I could save some money ...

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Quoting: hagabakaThat makes sense, but it's hard to measure Steam Play's effect on either of these possible trends: Linux gaining more users, and decline of native Linux support. Many of us have seen that some game developers who have released several Linux native titles in the past are not (or not definitely) doing it for their next project. We don't know how much that has to do with Steam Play or other reasons. Likewise, we don't know how many users and gamers are actually moving to Linux due to Steam Play, even though it is definitely helping existing Linux gamers.

Well, we do see a decline in native port (percentage) and don't see a rise in Linux gamers (percentage), right?

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Quoting: Liam DaweWhat's there to understand? Game development, especially for smaller teams is incredibly hard with thousands of games releasing all the time. I don't blame a single developer for taking exclusive deals, it allows them secure funding to continue making great games. It sucks for us when it's Epic, since the only way to then run it is Wine which gives us a subpar experience.

Having some funding means nothing against a game being finished or not.

Have Epic store customers been informed that they've been offered an unfinished product?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CaenthThey have been on Epic store for ~9 months now and after their exclusivity deal wears off they going to release with Early Access on Steam? What the hell is wrong with game development nowadays?! A lot, I tell you. I like my indie developers as much as you do, and I fully realize they need to earn their keep, but this smells. There is something called integrity and I don't see it here.

I don't get the issue? It's no different than any other game entering Early Access.

The whole idea of Early Access has been warped due to many games entering practically done. Early Access was originally meant for games actually in development.

Taking an exclusive deal doesn't suddenly make game development different.

So, Epic exclusively had an alpha version?

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