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World of Goo 2 is out now with Native Linux support
7 Aug 2024 at 12:16 pm UTC

Quoting: poke86
Quoting: EikeWho tries it before I buys it? ;)
I bought it, the Linux version is an AppImage and it works perfectly. Purchase goes through the Humble Store which is convenient.

The game itself feels very familiar, in a good way, same gameplay but there are some interesting new species of Goo. It feels more difficult than I remember the first one being but levels are skippable if you just want to push ahead.
Cool!

I remember the first one as difficult enough already. Besides that, all I remember is having lots of fun, so even no new stuff would probably be enough for me. :)

World of Goo 2 is out now with Native Linux support
7 Aug 2024 at 11:36 am UTC

Who tries it before I buys it? ;)

Linux / Steam Deck user share on Steam stays flat for July 2024
5 Aug 2024 at 7:02 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: LamdarerPerfection
I mean, I'm very positive and all, but actually that graph makes it kind of clear: We're talking about 1% in 2 1/2 years. At that rate, in 25 years we'll be at 12%. World domination in under 250 years!
That said, significantly faster than the Linux desktop share grew from ~2000 to 2022, so still seems like pretty good times!
The other way to see it(*) is doubling in 2.5 years. Calculate that one... ;)

(*) I am joking.

Wine 9.14 released with more ODBC Windows drivers support
29 Jul 2024 at 1:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

I couldn't get into modern Civ.
Wonder if I should try 1 again (or maybe 2).

Amusingly British point & click adventure Heir of the Dog now on Kickstarter (demo available)
16 Jul 2024 at 4:57 pm UTC Likes: 3

Funded in less than two hours!

If there's anybody into point and click that hasn't yet played Lucy Dreaming...
1) Shame on you!
2) Go get it [External Link]!
3) Shame on you still!

Linux kernel 6.10 is out now
16 Jul 2024 at 5:54 am UTC

Quoting: Vortex_Acherontic
Quoting: CedrickThe "nice" era is over :sad:
Maybe there will be a 6.66 and later a 6.69 Kernel :>

*Posted from 6.9.9*
Not going to happen until Linus grows some additional fingers and toes...

Relaxing nature-stacking puzzle-building game Preserve launches August 8
9 Jul 2024 at 7:17 pm UTC

Having looked into some relaxing stuff while/after being sick? :)

From the dev of Parkitect, Croakwood is a chill town building simulation game about frogs and nature
9 Jul 2024 at 5:32 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis seems cute, but I kind of wish things like this got a little more original. Like, the people are frogs, supposedly. OK, but they're living exactly like humans--it's just a reskin of a generic human-village-maker. They're making hard flagstoned paths to walk on, the houses they make to live in are human style because of course frogs would want to live somewhere dry, they appear to be doing agriculture because of course frogs would eat vegetables not bugs, they're doing their fishing from a dock . . .

It would be cooler if instead of making farms, they were making swamps, and if their homes were built part-underwater, and stuff. If there was some effort to think what the lifestyle of humanoid frogs might be like.
Great, now you spoiled it to me!

;)

Comedy adventure 3 Minutes to Midnight set to release in August
9 Jul 2024 at 12:07 pm UTC

One of 19 point and click's on my wishlist not yet released, and one of the dozen I wasn't sure they'll ever be.

:heart:

Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Not until 'tens of millions of users'
6 Jul 2024 at 7:03 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: fizdogI would love to switch to a linux distro geared towards gaming but things like this is holding me back. as little as i play fortnite, when i do its with my son and yeah. i'm already seeing people saying they want to switch to linux for what microcrap is doing with windows(whether the do or no is another question).
I'd recommend dual boot in this situation. Had that for many years, until I discovered I had used Windows only two times(*) in a full year in the end - and got rid of it.

(*) taxes declaration and an image from a veterinary