As with the previous charity bundles, wading through the humongous list of games can feel a bit overwhelming. But again, https://randombundlegame.com [External Link] helps you find stuff that actually interests you.

EDIT: Seems like the site is down.

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Quoting: furaxhornyxWhen it comes to command line usage in a standard consumer environment, Linux IS the exception ; everything else has a nice GUI to guide the user.

Your Linux doesn't have a nice GUI? Mine does. Or is the availability of the CLI a problem in itself? Because I sure as hell remember having to resort to running commands on an extremely awkward command line interface to fix stuff back in my Windows days, 20+ years ago. If you do any advanced tinkering or troubleshooting (or software development), you're going to be typing commands into some sort of a CLI at some point, regardless of operating system.

All that said, I agree with Purple Library Guy in that being comfortable in the terminal is not a sign of intelligence. The terminal is a powerful tool that doesn't limit the ways you can mess with your system, or that you can mess up your system, and hardly a day goes by that a professional nerd like me doesn't do something using a handy CLI tool simply because it's faster or more comfortable (for me) than messing about in a graphical UI of some sort. Learning it is definitely useful if you want or need to get the most out of your computer, but I'm sure most people have better things to do with their time.

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Quoting: rcritI didn't poke very hard but I don't see bundles anywhere. Like on their web page, bundle items are hidden until you download them "in order to avoid flooding your library." But bundles don't seem to be available at all in the app, just the games already downloaded.

That's only true for the couple of insanely massive charity bundles they've done. You have to go through the lists and click download on the ones you want to add to your library, but this is a one time process and you don't need to actually download anything. Check out randombundlegame.com [External Link] if you're struggling with the itch.io interface.

Personally I'm happy they did this, because I will never touch most of the stuff in these gargantuan bundles.

Games from more reasonably sized bundles (like a ~70 game one I bought at some point) seem to get added to your library directly.

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: 14And here I thought political comments were against the rules.

At least as far as the article goes, we are not far into offtopic territory. It would be hard to not to discuss about politics when article discusses about sanctions.

Quoting: Posting rules- Politics is important, it affects everything and everyone. However, be mindful of what you talk about and spread. If it is likely to cause arguments, don't post it. Most of the time, political chat isn't really needed here. Obviously if we cover something political, that is inviting respectable debate keeping all the other rules in mind.

Political discussion is fine when it's topical, disinformation and arguments are not.

"Disinformation"? I see what you did there.

What do you mean? Isn't that exactly what "be mindful of what you [...] spread" is about?

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: 14And here I thought political comments were against the rules.

At least as far as the article goes, we are not far into offtopic territory. It would be hard to not to discuss about politics when article discusses about sanctions.

Quoting: Posting rules- Politics is important, it affects everything and everyone. However, be mindful of what you talk about and spread. If it is likely to cause arguments, don't post it. Most of the time, political chat isn't really needed here. Obviously if we cover something political, that is inviting respectable debate keeping all the other rules in mind.

Political discussion is fine when it's topical, disinformation and arguments are not.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: elmapulsnip

Best not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Now there's a quote worth saving for the future. Love it!

Hanlon's Razor [External Link]

Yeah, it's a pretty old saying. Probably applicable in this case IMO, but in general overused--there is more malice in the world than this saying wants to allow.

Fair enough.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: kit89

Quoting: elmapulsnip

Best not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Now there's a quote worth saving for the future. Love it!

Hanlon's Razor [External Link]

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Quoting: TheRiddickGiven that feral games get removed off steam once license expires... I wouldn't be buying from them anyway.

Only from the store, obviously. Doesn't affect existing owners.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: EikeThese are my numbers:
VERIFIED: 12 games (3.41%)
PLAYABLE: 8 games (2.27%)
UNSUPPORTED: 1 games (0.28%) (That's Insurgency.)
UNKNOWN: 331 games (94.03%)

UNSUPPORTED += 1: Half-Life: Alyx

A VR-only game isn't supported on the Deck? Inconceivable!

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Quoting: SolitaryThey claim they added Linux support (but it means using Proton), so the wording and the actual support are little bit questionable. SteamDB shows that the game has Linux support, and the Windows build depot shows both windows and linux as target platform, which is something I haven't seen yet. But it is unclear what is actually supported and mostly what kind of support it implies.

I suppose it implies the same level of support they offer their non-Linux customers. For many developers, that doesn't amount to much, but at least they won't be able to reject your support request for not playing on a supported platform. And we should be able to expect them (or their testers) to at least launch new versions of the game on Linux/Proton as part of their QA process.

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