I remember that in the Revolution OS, Linus said that nobody really uses the operating system because people use programs. Seriously, we can't force people to use Linux on all popular computers because they will remove it after buying it.

In my view, Linux is an excellent alternative for other versions of Unix like Solaris, BSD, AIX, HP-UX Mac OS X, and so on. We can't compete with Windows and all companies that support it.

However, the main focus of Linux users should be buying more software and games than macOS users. We don't need users that criticize Apple because companies don't get any money from them. They don't need them.

I remember that Linux was more popular than Mac for more than a few years. However, we lost with loyal users that support companies that have published applications for Mac.

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Thank you.

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Quoting: gbudnyI hope that someone create a Linux installer for this mod because I don't like to use Wine even for installing games on Linux.

It's possible to extract the .exe with innoextract 1.9+ but it extracts all files, meaning not being able to select proper source port.

Thanks.

This is useful if I have a list of files that I need for the specific source port.

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I hope that someone create a Linux installer for this mod because I don't like to use Wine even for installing games on Linux.

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Great!

I have waited for 17 years to play a single-player mode in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

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Great!

I still have some digital and boxed versions of games like Postal 2 (LGP), Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, Heavy Metal: FAKK 2, Candy Cruncher, and so on. I don't even count how many times I played Postal 2 and Lugaru on Linux.

It's such a shame that he probably didn't get paid to finish the Linux version of Medal of Honor. It's an excellent game, and I know the Linux version is buggy. However, I don't regret that I spend about 17$ to buy an old computer to run Medal of Honor for Linux without any crashes. It was a great game when kernel 2.4 was popular on PCs, and I highly recommend it.

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Quoting: HamishI collected a few more I took on my phone at the time:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/MSvVpqC
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Barring that, I do not want to take them out of storage again right now.

Thank you.

I'm not a big fan of Quake 2 so my version could stay in a shink wrap.

Did you notice any information who excatly prepared these games for Linux?

I know Dave Taylor ported Quake and later, David Kirsch worked on the Linux version of Quake 2. I'm curious if there was a Linux team responsible for these two games.

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Quoting: damarrinGreat article as always.

Anyone know how LGP’s DRMed games fare now? I have a few of those, including X3, but haven’t tried installing any recently.

The DRM itself was pretty permissive and innovative, but of course it needs a server to be running.

Recently, I was installing X3 on PCLinuxOS from 2009 because I didn't have time to find a solution on how to run it on the modern Linux distribution. I was able to run Sacred on Ubuntu 20.4, and it works, but I had to figure out what libraries shouldn't be in the lib directory.

I have Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds Survivor from LGP, but I didn't try to install them.

I have all boxed versions of LGP games, and the rest is DRM Free.

Quoting: HamishFunny how LGP is dominating the conversation when it is not even mentioned in the article... :whistle:

I do not actually have a wealth of LGP games on hand to try; since they never had the same retail presence that Loki did their games do not really show up on the second hand market, regardless of the DRM situation.

Classic games for Linux are now games published by LGP.

Can you take more pictures of Quake games? I have the box version of Quake 2 for Linux, but it's still in the shrink wrap. I don't want to unpack it.

Many years ago, Jadeware published the commercial game Halloween. Unfortunately, they decided to drop support the Linux version, and I couldn't buy it. However, they decided to release the source code on GitHub, so it should be possible to compile it on Linux:

https://happypenguin.altervista.org/sheet.php?gameid=1269 [External Link]
http://www.jadegame.com/games/halloween/ [External Link]

The original Linux version is too old to run on the modern Linux distributions. I couldn't compile on Linux.

I'm not a programmer, so I can't fix it. It's a fun game.

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In 2015, I thought that LGP will come back because Frank Earl showed up on the phoronix forum:

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/linux-gaming/47888-linux-game-publishing-remains-offline-three-years-after-the-ceo-shakeup [External Link]

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Soldier of Fortune for Linux is an awesome game, and I was so desperate that I also bought Soldier of Fortune 2 for Mac. I know it is embarrassing. However, it was a very different game than the first part, and I didn't know about it.

Cold war for Linux is still my favorite game, and I always keep it on my hard drive.

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