Hopefully they also consider whatever 3rd party libs/deps the game uses. So many ports get permanently shelved due to <pick a component> lib that has no linux version, graphics api is only part of the equation after all. It's kind of amazing how often that appears to be a late-in-the-game problem devs notice when they don't prioritize other platforms from the start.

"Oh we can't actually support that platform without reworking X that could've easily been avoided if we considered all targets from the start, yeah, that ain't happening just for that sliver of customers"

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Quoting: 14Has anyone else been having trouble paying via PayPal at GOG? I have been trying to buy a game there for a couple days now.

I don't buy games terribly often at GOG but for what it's worth, I've only ever paid with Paypal with no issue (so far!). Must've gotten flagged for some reason?

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Quoting: XpanderRelease the GOG Galaxy client for linux

not gonna buy anything from them before we are getting treated equally to other platforms

More bees with honey and all that. I can't imagine linux is a major player for GoG or any gaming storefront really, I would think being the vocal minority in this case is more likely to get them to officially drop support for linux as opposed to increase their support for it. Be vocal AND supportive imho, that's what gives opinions weight.

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Quoting: EikeCould this be done with AGS to run e. g. Wadjet Eye Games' games?

I don't see why not, but it might not be very clean. I've used native AGS for this myself, and I can tell you the particular build of AGS matters a great deal with those games. Wadget Eye in particular tends to make special builds for their games to either fix bugs or roll in particular effects, things like that, though usually a newer-then version or version matching is enough. More "basic" AGS games like several popular freeware releases have much better luck with native AGS (the kings quest/qfg/sq fan remakes); In particular I found the linux build of AGS from "Quest for Infamy" tends to be drop-in for those remakes.

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I'd be surprised if this was released non-janky, it'd almost have to be the same as this article mentions with the core updater being disabled. To anyone that doesn't know, RetroArch is actually just a frontend that implements the download, management and use of "libretro" cores, along with configuring and loading roms etc. The cores are the actual emulators and are not technically part of RetroArch.

Personally I find RetroArch to be usually fairly nice -- albeit sometimes confusing if something isn't working properly -- except when using it for a core with a "not modern" amount of controller buttons. IE any console that uses a 6 button controller (Sega Saturn) is incredibly confusing to set up properly, especially if using an actual 6 button controller along with it. I'm far from new in games, technical challenges, and tinkering with games/emulators/hardware, and I just gave up and used a different emulator.

Thinking maybe I just didn't understand what I wanted I looked it up and found a feature request over the same thing. Turns out I'm not alone and there are no intentions to make "non-modern conforming layouts" (Things that don't fit to a 360 or dualshock pad's layout) less confusing, unfortunately.

Then after a few months I decided to try again, and gave up again.

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Quoting: ShmerlNvidia has a bad history of support when it comes to drivers

I'm rather curious about this, can you qualify your statement? I've avoided AMD/ATI gpus for quite a few years for two reasons:

• Build Quality -- it seemed like no matter what the build or price range of card, I'd have issues after a year, give or take.
• The drivers were buggy on both windows and linux, and the linux support in particular was bad.

Now, while I like open source, what I really care about is that it works. Maybe it's just my distro choices over the years but I've always found Nvidia support to be excellent in that the official drivers just worked.

That said, it's been quite a while since I've revisited that.

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Regarding Mint's wording about 32bit support in their announcement (which wasn't quoted here), I find the mixed reporting on all of that to be interesting. I'm pretty sure many of the writers out there are either ignorant of, or willfully ignorant of, the original posting/news about 32bit support removal where Canonical was quite clear about the complete drop of 32bit support -- not just for the kernel/distro release. They backtracked regarding multilib support only after Valve had some words for them.

They certainly tried to spin it like that was always the case in that updated "clarification", but it's plain for the world to see -- and read given five to ten minutes -- that there was no miscommunication.

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Quoting: HoriIn case you thought that the post-GTX naming convention wasn't bad enough...

At least it's not taking a page out of the Nintendo (And numerous others) playbook by putting the word "New" in front of it instead.

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The big thing Ubuntu had was Canonical, for better and worse. Whoever they pick, it'll probably have to have some sort of corporate backing unfortunately. I could see them getting over it/arranging backing to something popular with a good track record, like Mint (LMDE) or something. They're invested in debian/apt/etc already, so at the very least I imagine it won't break away from that easily (and if they did, I wouldn't be surprised if it was at the same point they began reconsidering supporting linux at all).

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To be honest I'm not sure why people are terribly surprised that Canonical made that call, and really, I expect they'll stick to it. They have a history of making calls and more or less telling people/communities/"linux people" to deal with it and/or "F*** off" (paraphrasing on my part).

I stopped using Ubuntu years ago over Canonical's jerk-wad behavior; the fact that I had problems with their quality control was only icing on that cake (LTS tended to be too old/too problematic, current always managing to break just enough that I had to fix my desktop every four months). I love Mint as being the "good" derivative that I rarely have to fix during normal usage/updates (My preference is Mint XFCE), and it pays to remember they have a Debian/Rolling non-ubuntu based version. I'd be all over their "LMDE" if it became their flagship, I've not adopted it yet simply because I've always suspected it'll get dropped once it becomes too much of a technical debt.

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