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Steam Play Proton 4.11 released, a pretty huge release pulling in D9VK and a replacement for esync
5 August 2019 at 12:24 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: jarhead_hAt this point I genuinely cannot understand why there would be any Linux gamers left who aren't on Steam. Don't talk to me about DRM, because Valve has done more for Linux's future this past year I think than any other company I can name. They are using resources on us cannot be justified with the current userbase and I believe that deserves reciprocity. I'm not saying you have to re-buy your GOG library over on Steam, but you should really start buying stuff there if you aren't already.

You keep saying that you want to reward developers that support Linux, well I'd say that Valve counts.

I've been a big supporter of GOG over the years, but I have to say I've been losing a lot of enthusiasm for GOG lately for various reasons:

- More often than not missing out on the Linux versions of releases there
- Frequently missing out on updates to games there (this affects all platforms but it's also not uncommon for Mac/Linux builds to remain neglected while the Windows versions are updated)
- The lack of a Galaxy client for Linux (which also contributes to both of the above points)
- The new policy against interacting with the community that GOG seem to have adopted
- Apparently not revealing the platform split to publishers(!)

All the while Valve have been doing so much to support Linux... it all makes it really hard to support and promote GOG as a Linux user. I'm very tempted to start buying more games from Steam & simply using tools like the Goldberg emulator with them.

Canonical planning to drop 32bit support with Ubuntu 19.10 onwards
21 June 2019 at 10:30 am UTC Likes: 14

This is a *really* dumb move by Canonical. And the timing is just perfect as well: right when there will be a lot of Windows 7 users looking for an alternative to Windows 10 as support ends... what a great first impression this will make for them.

Looks like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 may be coming to Linux
28 March 2019 at 3:51 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: ShmerlFor anyone planning to buy the first game - get it on GOG. It's the best available release, since it already includes Wesp5's base patch which is practically mandatory today.

...plus it's currently 75% off (although not for much longer as the sale is ending soon), and I just released a Wine wrapper for it today :)

GOG are ending their 'Fair Price Package program', soon after letting staff go
27 February 2019 at 1:01 pm UTC

Quoting: damarrinThat said, it’s still completely incomprehensible for someone coming from Windows that they then need to enable the 32-bit architecture and install a bunch of libs in the terminal before the game they just installed can work.

Mint has 32-bit package support enabled out of the box at least, and I think Ubuntu has for some time now too. As for dependencies, I made a meta-package for quickly installing most commonly required dependencies on Mint 19.x/Ubuntu 18.04 - the download link can be found (along with my Mint beginner's guide) here.

No need to use the terminal either - just double-click in the file manager to install (even if installing the dependencies manually there's no need to use the terminal as Synaptic Package Manager can be used for that). The last time I tried it is a lot more of a hassle on Ubuntu though as gdebi & Synaptic aren't installed by default and it tries to open loose .deb packages with the software center (which can't actually install them).

What have you been playing recently and what do you think of it?
17 February 2019 at 4:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: WorMzyI'm continuing on with my Proton-enabled play through of Fallout: New Vegas, that's going well, not so many crashes these days. \o/ (water still acts weird though)

In my experience Fallout 3 & New Vegas work best with a staging build of Wine.

What have you been playing recently and what do you think of it?
17 February 2019 at 4:32 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: einherjarSadly I couldn't use my Witcher 1 savegames. Seems not to work, because I bought TW1 and GOG and TW2 on steam :-(

https://www.gog.com/witcher/backup :)

The new System Shock is looking quite impressive with the latest artwork
20 January 2019 at 9:33 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: GuestLooks good. But i still wait for the System Shock 1 Enhanced Edition port and i still wait for System Shock 2 Update.

My wrapper for the GOG version of System Shock 2 uses the latest version, and I also made a wrapper for System Shock: Enhanced Edition as a temporary solution until they get the port ready.

Linux hardware vendor Entroware has unleashed Hades, their first AMD CPU desktop
14 January 2019 at 5:42 pm UTC

The conversation about PS/2 keyboards here reminds me of a funny post I saw a while ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7t6zpu/anon_on_keyboards/

Anyway, I personally wouldn't buy a prebuilt desktop system (it's easy enough & much cheaper + more fun to build it yourself and you have a lot more choice/control over what parts go into it), but I'd be very interested in a good Ryzen laptop. I got an Entroware laptop for my mother almost two years ago & it's generally been very good so far; more than enough for what she uses it for. That said, I was unimpressed by their choice of SSD (made by a manufacturer I've never heard of before: Biwin) - it became noticeably slower over time, and recently had to be replaced as it started showing signs of failure (severe slowdowns + SMART data reporting lots of errors).