Got on list for the 512G version on Nov 23.
Got invite on Aug 29.
Tracking says it should be here Sep 6.

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Weird that they claim Q4 emails are going out, while mine says expected Q3 and I haven't gotten one. Maybe the cheaper ones are more readily available?

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Quoting: scaineAs for library changes breaking, I'd suggest changing distro - I also had lots of weird stuff on Manjaro, to the point it barely lasted a fortnight on my PC before I moved on.

Interesting. I've had no issues with Manjaro 21.3 (knock wood). Been through 3-4 waves of updates with it, and Steam and Lutris were stable all through it.

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Quoting: denyasis<snip>That was a BIG selling point for GOG at it's inception. Some people really hated the mandatory client/DRM thing Steam and others did.

This was me -- I hated the DRM. But over time (and not even a lot of time) even the Windows installs for GOG games had issues. I'm a software developer -- if I want to debug software or software installs, I get paid pretty nicely to do that. When I want to play games, I want to relax and not debug software.

It always seemed over half the games wouldn't run on Windows without hours of tweaking -- and Linux stuff was only supported for one particular ancient-beyond-belief version of a distribution. It seemed very old-school, as in physical media old school -- one release that (might) work for a particular version of a particular OS, and that's it -- done.

Steam might use DRM, but at least their games just-work for me. (YMMV -- I don't have hundreds of Steam games.) The worst I've had to do is change which version of Proton a game uses. No debugging library incompatibilities or video card drivers or finding some silly setting in a config file in a hidden directory. And that's on Manjaro, which isn't exactly number one on the supported distributions list. (Had similar easy experiences with Mint and MX.)

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Quoting: GuestI think the FSF has a good page explaining free software (and another how "open source" is not equivalent): FSF page [External Link]

It isn't a very good explanation -- very long winded. To shorten it: basically "free" software means 1) you can run it how and why you want, 2) study and change it how you want, 3) distribute copies how you want, and 4) distribute modified copies how you want.

With "open source" software, the only real requirement is that the source be publicly available. The open source developer might choose a "free" license, or a "proprietary" license, or something in-between (like a no-paid commercial sales license).

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Quoting: s01itudeI found the amount of platforming to be incredibly off-putting personally. I think games like this have a place for sure and many people would enjoy the blend, but a lot of game media is blowing it up purely off the similarities it has to oldschool square/enix Rpgs.

Players should know that they will need to enjoy platforming as well to enjoy this game though!

Thank you so much for posting this. Saves me time looking up stuff about this game. I love RPGs but I hate platformers, so I really appreciate this.

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Quoting: TodCIt wasn't just lack of Linux support, I had Windows games that wouldn't keep working -- I was willing to keep a Windows VM around for that. But lack of DRM when you can't get the game to run makes no difference.

I just recently found out about Lutris from this site, and that seems to make GOG stuff easier to run just in general -- even compared to directly on Windows.

Not sure why, but Lutris's GUI looks horrible on my Kubuntu-Desktop. I've had more fun with "importing" Gog-Games into steam, even though it's not without its problems (each time I had to manually edit the paths to the executable and the game-folder). But it was worth it as I could play the games using Proton and simply start them via the Steam-App.

The Lutris GUI looks about the same for me on XFCE Mint, MX Linux, and Manjaro. It isn't perfect -- when downloading and installing, the action buttons get out of sync with the selected game, but Wine (or DosBox) has worked with varying degrees of success. On Manjaro, I ended up often needing to provide the installed path too, but things work. (Varying degress means, for example, in Bioshock Remastered, the mini games and save screens are slooooow to load.)

I like that it starts with the original install executables, which I don't think importing to Steam does. (I've read about importing to Steam but haven't tried it, since it doesn't seem to actually do the install, which is the part I'm interested in.)

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And I would really like a distro that made it trivial (a GUI application pre-installed or at least install-able from standard repo) to disable or control trackpad gestures. All I want is drag, drop, click, click-and-hold, and maybe (just maybe) two finger scrolling. All the other gestures I want disabled. (I am always accidentally causing stuff to happen with a trackpad.)

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Quoting: LNXAfter years of distrohopping I stopped at MX linux (Debian based, no systemd).
Still have bad memories of those Fedora core experiments days. But truly believe they (Red Hat and co.) have made palpable progress ever since.
Anyway personally (with Artix as my 2nd driver now) still consider MX project as a greatly balanced one.

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We run MX Linux on the fanless box we use for our "TV". I like it in a lot of ways, but the multiple sources for installs feels weird and some of the GUI stuff is clunky (possibly from lack of familiarity).

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Quoting: damarrinI recently moved to Fedora myself and I’m now a fan. Ubuntu doesn’t do it for me any more and the Manjaro I was also using was just too much hassle.

What issues did you have with Manjaro? I just started using it myself, because the CPU I bought was supported by the live USB install for Manjaro, but not Mint (which is what I used to use).

I like that the rolling release won't have a "fresh upgrade" scenario -- my wife hates when we have to do those to her laptop.

We like the XFCE desktop.

But, I do like stability and the ability to easily run/install NVidia proprietary drivers and to have my USB scanner, USB printer, and CD/DVD work out of box. In the past, the latter were all an issue with Debian -- which I otherwise liked.

I use RHEL at work, with AlmaLinux for Docker containers. I don't care for what RHEL did to CentOS, so Fedora is kind of tainted by that, plus they don't seem to have an official XFCE version with minimal install. (I don't want LibreOffice, as we pay for SoftMaker's office suite -- it works better for my wife's writing.)

And it needs to support the Alder Lake (newest Intel) CPUs out of the box.

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