Installed it on my main system yesterday & updated my Linux Mint beginner's guide [External Link] today, all good so far :)

Quoting: UltraVioletIs there any way to change to a older kernel that you've installed if you can't press f8 at boot up for advanced options ?

Press Escape quickly just before it boots into Mint to access the GRUB menu on UEFI systems. If you hold it down too long (or press it after the menu appears) you'll get a console - if this happens just type "normal", then press enter then quickly press escape once to get back into the menu.

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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.

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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.

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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 [External Link] (although not for much longer as the sale is ending soon), and I just released a Wine wrapper for it [External Link] today :)

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Older/classic games currently on sale on GOG that I've made Wine/Proton wrappers [External Link] for (see this post [External Link] for wrapper release list/links to release threads):

Anno 1701 A.D. [External Link]
BioShock Remastered [External Link]
BioShock 2 Remastered [External Link]
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified [External Link]
Clive Barker's Undying [External Link]
Consortium [External Link]
Crysis [External Link]
Crysis Warhead [External Link]
Dead Space [External Link]
Dragon Age: Origins [External Link]
Freedom Force [External Link]
Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich [External Link]
GUN [External Link]
Jade Empire: Special Edition [External Link]
Mafia [External Link]
Mafia II Director's Cut [External Link]
Magrunner: Dark Pulse [External Link]
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest [External Link]
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault [External Link]
Risen [External Link]
Risen 2: Dark Waters Gold Edition [External Link]
Risen 3: Titan Lords - Complete Edition [External Link]
The Saboteur [External Link]
Saints Row 2 [External Link]
Saints Row: The Third [External Link]
Saints Row IV [External Link]
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition [External Link]
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl [External Link]
STALKER: Clear Sky [External Link]
SWAT 4 Gold Edition [External Link]
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell [External Link]
Tropico 3 Gold Edition [External Link]
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition [External Link]
The Witcher 3 GOTY [External Link]
XCOM: Enemy Unknown [External Link]

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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 [External Link].

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).

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For those who use Wine and other such tools, there's probably plenty more for you to take a look at. One of our readers, adamhm, maintains a list of Wine wrappers they've done for GOG releases you can find here [External Link]—handy!

...and these are the ones currently on sale :)

Anno 1701 A.D. [External Link]
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified [External Link]
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth [External Link]
Clive Barker's Undying [External Link]
Crysis [External Link]
Crysis Warhead [External Link]
Dead Space [External Link]
Dragon Age: Origins [External Link]
Fallout [External Link]
Fallout 2 [External Link]
Fallout Tactics [External Link]
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition [External Link]
Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition [External Link]
FEAR Platinum [External Link]
FEAR 2: Project Origin + Reborn [External Link]
Freedom Force [External Link]
Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich [External Link]
Jade Empire: Special Edition [External Link]
Mafia [External Link]
Mafia II Director's Cut [External Link]
Mirror's Edge [External Link]
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest [External Link]
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault [External Link]
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition Deluxe [External Link]
The Saboteur [External Link]
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition [External Link]
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition [External Link]
The Witcher 3 GOTY [External Link]
XCOM: Enemy Unknown [External Link]

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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.

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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 [External Link] :)

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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 [External Link] uses the latest version, and I also made a wrapper for System Shock: Enhanced Edition [External Link] as a temporary solution until they get the port ready.

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