Long live GamingOnLinux!

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Quoting: CaldathrasNot much benefit to me. My Nvidia chipset is stuck on the 580 series. Ah well, I knew it would happen eventually...

No biggie, though. Nvidia drivers are messy on Xfce (at least on my Mint system) since the 590 series, so I had to go back to earlier versions for it to work properly on my GTX 1650.

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I'm tired, boss...Extremely tired...

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The Type O Negative bundle 🤘🏻

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Quoting: GustyGhostHonestly, they should just mainline LMDE and drop the Ubuntu derived version. Mint team spend way too much time correcting for Ubuntu's interesting choices.

Agreed. Having LMDE as their main version would be wonderful, especially if it came with all Mint flavors: Cinnamon, Xfce and MATE. Sure, we can always install any desktop environment on top of a fresh install of LMDE or any distro, but it would be much more polished if it came with the Debian base + Mint goodies + your DE of choice right at the start.

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Great game! But with that price, and in this economy, it goes from "day-one purchase" to "I'll wait for a huge discount". The lack of Steam Cloud support is also a big offender. At least now it will be much hassle-free to run the game on the Steam Deck / Linux desktop, since it doesn't need the Battle.net client (which always ends up breaking after some random update).

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This is good news! Especially for those who are using Cinnamon.

A bit of story and context: the PC of some of my relatives are on Mint Cinnamon and that DE is rougher than usual in this release cycle (Mint 22 series, which is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). Several times they couldn't put their computer to sleep / suspend (the option wasn't there) and had to call me to help them. That bug got fixed on 22.3 (their latest point release), but then another one showed up: the Shutdown button sometimes doesn’t respond – they click on it and nothing happens (thankfully, this one is much more rare).

In the end, both of those cases could be solved via terminal, but for people that are not tech-savvy (most of Mint's target audience) issues like that are show stoppers. I'm a Mint user too, but I'm on Xfce and haven't faced these bugs, so it's clear those are Cinnamon issues.

And to be fair, it's been a while since many Mint new features are purely aesthetic (how many times they have tweaked their theme in the last three years, for instance?), which to me felt more like they were doing for the sake of doing it; just to show others they are busy. This new slower approach is coming for the best, I believe, and will surely bring more solid and battle-tested changes.

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I'm curious to see what the future holds for the Epic Games Store. It's well known that Tim Sweeney is very anti-Linux and with more and more people leaving Windows behind, sooner or later he will have major problems with that attitude.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicI just want to point out that there are A LOT of talented artists out there who would love to get some exposure, artists who would love a chance to get their work shown off in such a highly visible place such as the front page banner of a major online game store. Look at the exposure that the artist Nemu got with her 'Steam Delivery Girl' on Steam. There's many out there who would be very happy for a very reasonable fee to do this kind of work, and it's not a huge cost for a company like GOG to pay that. This comes off as lazy, cheap and disrespectful to me. Just a giant FU to artists.

Great point. By investing on a real artist, GOG could have a "Steam Delivery Girl" moment of their own, but they decided to take the easy way out and look how badly that ended for them.

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This wasn't a good move. I'm sure they will lose some Patrons after that.

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