I already own CD-ROMs for the trilogy, which also includes Jack in the Dark. I wonder if that is included in GoG. PS: Yes, I can confirm Jack in the Dark is in the trilogy from GoG.

But this is great to own a digital download, so I don't have to climb up my closet top shelf to retrieve the CD-ROM in a taped box, deal with any bit rot, and whether my optical reader will function after years of disuse.

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I use Fedora for personal stuff (address book, photo editing etc.) I started moving Windows games to Fedora to run under wine and others until I no longer needed Windows, and Fedora is now my only gaming platform on a desktop.

I would not switch to another distro given the time investment required, and I'm just glad I started with Fedora early on. It basically has everything I need: Server, desktop, gaming. It may require some tweaking but that's what is expected to get bleeding-edge features with acceptable stability. It has full coverage of software packages and repos I need for my everyday use, including gaming.

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Last week, I briefly went through Miasmata (wine), Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY (native), Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: Le Chuck's Revenge (wine), Monster Truck Madness (wine now crashes), and Moonlighter (native).

I am going thru all the games I own (now at letter 'M' as first letter of title) to re-visit and meticulously record the progress and any hints that can help me get back to the game after a long gap.

Learned my lesson with one game I tried to get back to after several years only to find that I couldn't even progress successfully without having to start from scratch to go back through the tutorials and re-learn the techniques to gather resources so I can defeat a boss which I am stuck at.

Monster Truck Madness used to work a few years ago last time I played, but now crashes in wine 10.x, or even wine 6.x which I keep around for some games. I have no inclination to build much older wine with 16-bit code (I don't think that's even possible with latest Linux distro) so I'll have to give up on this game. I still have license for Windows 95 and kept the laptop part that goes with it, but I highly doubt I will allocate a disk image on my file system for that and waste time maintaining it.

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Will this work if TWWH1 and TWWH2 licenses are through Epic Games and not thru Steam?

I haven't been able to run either TWWH1 or TWWH2 due to "no mods found" error. I used legendary to install and heroic to run them using wine.

Hope TWWH3 will not have these problems.

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64-bit OS can run 32-bit app, but 32-bit OS cannot run 64-bit app.

It seems that Valve is no longer supporting Steam running in 32-bit OS.

That doesn't mean they are not supporting Steam running 32-bit app or running 32-bit Steam (or 64-bit Steam running 32-bit libraries maybe?) in 64-bit OS.

I run 64-bit Linux which can run 32-bit apps in multiarch mode.

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The trajectory seems to indicate that the percentage goes up every time new Steam Deck is introduced, and keeps going up with momentum.

There are fluctuations, but could be related to mass increase of Chinese language users (see the language-based graph in the referenced site) using Windows-based Steam around March or December then dropping off (maybe Chinese holiday or school kids out of school or something else happening in China?).

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I never even imagined Amazon Prime Gaming as a competitor to Steam. I guess that shows how clueless Amazon management was.

Now I realize Amazon Prime Gaming never includes any Steam game keys in their weekly drops.

If Amazon Prime Gaming could include Linux native games, that would be in the right direction at a minimum.

At least you can get GoG game key and just download Linux-native game if GoG has them, since the GoG game key is for the game license, not the specific platform it can run on, just the same as Steam.

Epic games can be installed using legendary without requiring wine, then run from heroic with wine.

Direct Amazon-provided games can be installed using nile without requiring wine, then run using wine. I shudder the days when Amazon Game App running in wine would frequently freeze and fail downloads, but no more.

The only games Amazon Prime Gaming provide that cannot be installed is Microsoft Store based ones, since they require Xbox App in MS Windows, and last time I tried, it failed in Linux. I still register the game keys just in case Microsoft decides to allow Linux to install their games in the future. You never know, I can still register the keys from Linux web browser.

Then there is Legacy Games, and its App works quite well under wine, so no complaints there.

I have not seen any other online store-based games that Amazon Prime Gaming gives out, but we'll see. Maybe once they realize they can never beat Steam, they could negotiate with Steam to include Steam games?

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Last Friday (2/14) was one of those rare cases where all five games ran perfectly in Linux using wine-staging. Hope this becomes a trend.

It could be that all those games were less than a few years old, showing that Linux+wine compatibility is becoming better and better. Linux native gaming were always great though (only <1% of my Linux native games had issue mostly with fullscreen vs windowed rather than actual gameplay, while 10% of my MS Windows games have issue even with starting up in Linux+wine).

Sure it would've been nice for all online game stores publish Linnux-native versions, but I'm sure they have legitimate reasons (dealing with separate rights holders, no major corporate Linux sponsor to hold their hands and twist their arms, dealing with bottom-line with competitions, etc.). Well, the last two parts may not be as legitimate since they could lead to anti-competitive behaviors.

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I've got Orange Box for $1.99 after missing the free license sale. I had Half-Life and thoroughly enjoyed it, but never had a chance to play Half-Life 2 until now. Both run in native Linux.

I'm into Ravenholm and so far it is the most fun chapter for me. Navigating on foot and on boat is real fun too, with not too hard puzzles to solve. But I just love the gravity gun. No limited ammunition, can kill face huggers(?), slice and dice with tablesaw blades, etc. Can't wait to finish it and continue onto Ep1 and 2.

I do get motion sickness after I play a couple of hours, which is a good sign that I should stop for next time. Also, I play in windowed mode (FHD size inside large UHD monitor) which is still enjoyable.

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I already had a license for Whispering Willows from MS Windows-only online site. Now I get to run native Linux version that GoG has. Nice.

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