Quoting: GuestIt is like gambling and collecting as a hobby for me, so thanks, but no thanks.

Quoting: tuubiPersonally I don't see why I'd ever buy one of these "mystery" bundles.

I agree completely. I have a slight aversion to clutter. I don't need games in my catalogue that I'll never play. I even turn down free games if they don't appeal to me and, thus, will never play them.

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I am not a "noob" (been doing Linux for over 10 years and working with personal computers since the early eighties) but I would not classify myself as a "tech-head" either. I get by and I don't mind a little tinkering.

Linux Mint remains my daily driver. My go-to platform because it is rock-solid, stable and the devs care about their users. At this point, I have tried all the flavours and liked them all. Mint is a great starter distro for a new user.

Don't get me wrong, I like KDE Plasma but I have never had a stable experience with it. I tried Kubuntu but it just kept crashing on me (although, I didn't know about Kubuntu Minimal -- that's cool). I gave up and went to Pop!_OS with its custom Gnome desktop for gaming.

I've tried Manjaro KDE, as well. Runs well on single GPUs but terribly unstable on my laptop with a hybrid (Optimus) GPU. The rolling release schedule became aggravating and, while it didn't kill the OS itself, it constantly destabilized my game installations. The telemetry issue was the final straw. None of my systems run Manjaro now.

I've tried but I can't get Tuxedo OS to install on any of my systems. In VM, it seems as unstable as Kubuntu.

Clearly, KDE Plasma is not for me.

On my old "gaming" laptop I use Pop!_OS. On my current "gaming" laptop, I use Mint XFCE. I am happy with both configurations.

I do not understand this obsession with needing to have the latest and freshest of everything. To me, that is just asking for instability. I prefer a setup that is stable and reliable. Linux Mint and Pop!_OS give me that. I don't much care for the recent games anyway, especially the AAA stuff.

But, as another comment said, to each his/her own.

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Quoting: legluondunetI bought "Battle Chest® - Warcraft® Remastered" on Batlle.Net and I don't regret it, for an interesting price, you have:

Warcraft® I: Remastered
Warcraft® II: Remastered
Warcraft® III: Reforged (+ Spoils of War bonus)
Warcraft®: Orcs & Humans
Warcraft® II: Battle.net® Edition

And all are compatible out the box with Wine (I use Battle.Net on Lutris).
I advice this pack for all Warcraft fan.

It's seems I was partially right. The individual remastered games don't include access to the "originals" but I didn't know about the Battle Chest. I wonder if that was Blizzard's response to the criticism by the reviewers?

Rather than get this Battle Chest, I'd rather get the DRM-free copies from GOG. To me, online checks are DRM. I haven't purchased a Blizzard game since they started adding the online requirement (I play offline only). The last Blizzard games I bought were Diablo 2 and Warcraft 2 Battle.net Edition, for the single-player campaigns -- both of which I have on CD-ROM. I was never much interested in StarCraft.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: CaldathrasInteresting, I was hoping for an update on UMU support. There's no .deb file for Ubuntu/LM users yet.

I'm still on v0.5.16 myself.

UMU is working in 0.5.17. It just never mentions it.

Yea, I knew about that but it was labeled as "experimental" so I thought I'd wait until they considered it "stable" ...

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Interesting, I was hoping for an update on UMU support. There's no .deb file for Ubuntu/LM users yet.

I'm still on v0.5.16 myself.

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Quoting: Stormy178Love the update when I discovered it was working finally, when I was screen sharing with some friends the other day. Also to note it works on X11/Xorg DEs as well(confirmed on KDE Plasma 5 on Pop!OS)

How's Plasma running on the Pop!_OS base for you? Any installation or maintenance quirks that you've noticed?

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Well, at least they have a decent enough period of advanced notice.

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Quoting: The ArticleWhy are Blizzard doing this now? They recently released Warcraft I: Remastered and Warcraft II: Remastered, although they're only available on Battlenet.

It's Diablo II: Resurrected all over again!

In exchange for minor quality-of-life improvements and questionable changes to the artistic style of the graphics, Blizzard has imposed an online connection check in order to launch the games -- even for those that only want to play the single player campaigns.

On top of that, the multiplayer mode has been removed from Warcraft 1, effectively crippling the game for fans of the original.

Quoting: Linux_RocksThe remasters on Battle.net come with the originals too.

Like Diablo II: Resurrected, they built in the ability to swap between the original or remastered graphics. You still have to endure the online requirement and all the other changes. Not quite the same thing as having copies of the original game like GOG gives you (example: buy Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition and you get access to the Neverwinter Nights Diamond installer too).

That being said, like you, I am not really surprised. Over Blizzard's lifetime, I have watched Blizzard devolve into the greedy, anti-consumer corporation it's is now. I had hoped that Microsoft buying them might signal a change in direction to Blizzard's attitude, but no such luck. This is why I no longer buy Blizzard's games.

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This is great for those of us that prefer to game on older hardware.

It's wonderful that the dev saw this obvious need and decided to do something about it! Thanks, pythonlover02!!

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: The ArticleI imagine most of you gaming are likely at least on the 560 series

That being said, I'm surprised that GOL does not collect the driver version along with the rest of its user statistics ...

Probably because that changes too frequently, I for one am not going to remember to check every update and come update my stats here.

Yeah that's it precisely, just noise, no real added value to keep asking people to update it.

That makes sense ...

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