I feel like I should play Stellaris on this.

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Quoting: 14A bit interesting to see who else IGN's parent company owns [External Link] as well.

AskMen
BabyCenter.com
BlackFriday.com
BestBlackFriday.com
Deals of America[56]
Dicebreaker[55]
Downdetector
Ekahau
emedia
eVoice
Eurogamer[55]
Everyday Health
ExtremeTech
GamesIndustry.biz[55]
HowLongToBeat.com
HR Technologist
Humble Bundle
IGN
IPVanish
Lifehacker
Line2
Livedrive
Loseit.com
Mashable
MarTech Advisor
Moz.com
Offers.com
PCMag
RetailMeNot
Rock Paper Shotgun[55]
Salesify
SMTP
Speedtest.net by Ookla[57]
MapGenie[58]
Spiceworks
StrongVPN
SugarSync
TDS Gift Cards[59]
Techbargains.com
Toolbox.com
VG247[55]
VIPRE
Ziff Davis Tech[60]
Ziff Davis B2B[61]

Ugh. There's a lot of that kind of thing . . . everything's a lot more monopolistic out there than we realize because we see all these different names and don't realize they're all owned by the same assholes.

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I'm pretty lucky the last few days; turn based 4X type games are my thing, and first there's Endless Legend for free (which I'm quite enjoying) and now the Warhammer Gladius thing which is probably fun and I will definitely try. Neither of which I would have heard of without GamingonLinux, so thanks very much.

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Trippy. I might enjoy watching someone play that. I couldn't--I would die so many times . . .

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Art style is simultaneously very scribbly and quite creepy. Not sure if I like it, but it's distinctive. I was surprised that the trailer is pretty much all big-boom combat.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: SimonKJones2. Scrivener, writing software that isn't available on Linux. That's basically the only thing keeping me on the platform.

Did you try it under WINE lately? Somebody reported (I think on this site, something geo-related?) that programs not related to games at all also profit from the WINE improvements.

A quick google suggests that it can be done, although it may be tricky to get working.

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Quoting: elmapulmaking an game is hard enough, supporting other platforms is a bit harder

That's true, but that's why it's a stretch goal, where they promised to do it if they got extra money. And they got to define how much extra money it would require before they were willing to support other platforms. They could have not promised it, they could have made it a bigger stretch goal--the whole thing was totally their decision. Then they went back on their word.
Mind you, Kickstarter as a whole really pushes away from the philosophy of "underpromise, overdeliver".

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Quoting: LexwakHowever, if someone gains access to your computer, they could uncover much more than just random screenshots taken out of context.

This right here makes me think you're not arguing in good faith. It seems a bit of a stretch to describe a setup that takes a screenshot regularly every few seconds over the whole time you're using your computer as "random screenshots taken out of context". To the contrary, they are a regular sequence of screenshots which cover the whole context.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: PhiladelphusIt's worth noting that not even Windows users are particularly enthused at the idea, as in this article [External Link] on PCGamer.

I'll be amazed if many will put their money where their mouth is and walk away. It's only gotten as bad as it is now because they never take action about their complaints. :huh:

But the situation is not immutable. Linux's share on Steam has been growing, largely thanks to the Steam Deck--but the Linux share on the desktop in general seems to have been growing significantly faster the last year or two; we're apparently up to about 4%. I think something like this could add a couple of percentage points.

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Man, Cory Doctorow's word "enshittification" really has turned out to be one of the words of the year, eh?

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