Patreon Logo Support us on Patreon to keep GamingOnLinux alive. This ensures all of our main content remains free for everyone. Just good, fresh content! Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal Logo PayPal. You can also buy games using our partner links for GOG and Humble Store.
Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Need to chill? Check out Forest's Secret, a free nonviolent adventure
9 Nov 2020 at 9:21 pm UTC

Thanks, added the Ubuntu line to make it simple for the majority.

Free and open source flight sim 'FlightGear' has a brand new release
9 Nov 2020 at 5:27 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TcheyOn Manjaro, i installed it from the manager (building from AUR, it seems).

It took a while, like 15-20 minutes, and manager says all good.
So i suppose the data are DL and somewhere on my PC.

When i go to game/FlightGear, it says the folder doesn’t appear to be a valid location /usr/share/flightgear/data and i need to download a zip file.

Should i ? Where are the Gigaoctets lost ?
I was a bit confused, the AUR for the game itself said the data package from the AUR was a dependency but it didn't seem to install it, so I had to do that manually and then it just worked.

Minecraft has a first snapshot up for the huge Caves & Cliffs update
7 Nov 2020 at 3:32 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: lectrodeThey had tinted glass. I think it's a new shade? No idea.
Nope, tinted glass as a block type is new to 1.17. You're thinking of stained glass.

Stadia hits 100 games with Far Cry 5 and New Dawn out now, gets Family Sharing
7 Nov 2020 at 2:55 pm UTC

Quoting: spayder26pay for the games you already own
Same as any other store, service and console. You rarely get to redeem games you own from one service to another, with exception being GOG Connect which is still not very often. Not counting GeForce NOW, since it is an entirely different service model.

Quoting: spayder26lose everything when we put it down
A true concern indeed but one that hopefully over time will be unfounded.

Just as a reminder, if you prefer not to see Stadia content you can add it to your blocked tags. I see a lot of people commenting on things they clearly don't like over the last year...

Eight years ago today, Steam for Linux went into Beta
6 Nov 2020 at 6:08 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: BloomberyHow can I get the same achievement?
I'm afraid it's entirely proprietary [External Link] and only we have the power to use this special achievement.

Godlike village building sim 'Rise to Ruins' is now available DRM-free on GOG
6 Nov 2020 at 4:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheSHEEEPMore than 5% of reviews is actually incredibly much.
The general guideline for reviews to sales is actually that less than 5% leave reviews.

For RoR that would make it more than 10% reviews. Impressive!
It's a very tricky thing to calculate, and each person I've seen attempt to do so has some different outcome and method to try. It ends up varying a lot. In this case, when you look at total sales (first link) from September over the lifetime it would give less than 2% that left a review for RoR.

Get a piece of gaming history with Crystal Caves HD now supported on Linux
6 Nov 2020 at 2:30 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: vipor29i told the developer hopefully it will get fixed
I have replied to the Steam post to advise both you and the developer on it.

Also what Ehvis said, it's so common and often confusing I wrote about article about the missing executable issue.

Face off against other ant colonies in the big Empires of the Undergrowth update
5 Nov 2020 at 10:04 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: PsyringeDoes anybody remember "Swarm Assault" game? Such a great game, so many memories. I would be thrilled if there was a remake.
https://github.com/Dzierzan/OpenSA [External Link] using the OpenRA engine, we're following for releases.

Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11
4 Nov 2020 at 9:16 pm UTC Likes: 2

Video is now up for the public, article updated.

Linux 5.11 to see better support for ASUS gaming laptop keyboards
4 Nov 2020 at 8:12 pm UTC

Quoting: Luke_NukemThanks mate. Tried to find a button or link to send article feedback but couldn't see one.
For future reference: there's a big black box directly below the article for it. The comments area also has a dedicated button too labelled "Send Correction Report". You can use either.