I may never have even known about this or the other bundle but for GoL. Thanks for helping spread the word, Liam. As a direct result of your articles, I've bought both bundles, and for the time being I've changed my Amazon Smile charity from EFF to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

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Quoting: KROM

Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: DrMcCoyWhich is part of the reason I'm not giving Larian any money anymore, yes.

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Can you really blame developers for backing out of not releasing native linux versions given its less then %1 market share at the time?
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My personal issue was with how they have handled it. Initially they did a Kickstarter where they have promised linux support. When they eventually have released the original version, they said they'd deliver the linux version afterwards. Okay, that's pretty common and understandable to some degree, because they want to rake in some fresh money first.
But then they were like "Okay, now we're working on the EE version of the game and linux will be delivered after that, sorry!!1", which meant more waiting while everybody else and their mum were playing the game we were eager to play.
When they eventually released the linux version (EE), it was completely absent of any Kickstarter goodies some of us have pledged for. To my knowledge even our names were no longer in the credits. That really was unnecessary in my eyes.

That aside, DOS1+2 are pretty good games, but that was not the point some of us were trying to make. :)

My recollection was that Larian kept announcing, then pushing back, release date after release date for their Linux edition of DOS, repeatedly raising then crushing the collective hopes, expectations, and excitement of Linux gamers, well earning ever-deepening derision and ridicule, distrust and scorn.

To be clear, I accept now, and accepted then, that Linux editions of games are often gonna come out later than the more lucrative Windows editions, and I also accept that Linux versions are sometimes just up and cancelled, but what Larian did just felt --- well, abusive to me.

Here on GoL, DOS was first announced on April 9th, 2013.. By the time DOS was finally released for Linux --- two-and-a-half years later --- it had racked up around 17 articles about Larian's "promise after promise and delay after delay" of an actual release date. In point of fact, DOS was never released for Linux, was it? only DOS-EE was).

I'm glad to hear DOS numero dos might be (not "will be" because it's Larian and Linux, let's be fair to ourselves) properly available on Linux sometime in the next two-and-a-half-years. I'm no longer angry about Larian's DOS release fiasco. I've come to a sort of peace about it, really. The glowing red ember of crystalline hatred smouldering in the blackest depths of my heart far surpasses anything as pale as "anger," and I'm at peace with that.

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Quoting: NanobangLol, their collective nose must be out of joint from when Valve switched from Ubuntu to Arch, which might have turned out differently had Ubuntu gone '"all in" with gaming on Ubuntu' back in 2012 or 2013 when Valve committed to Linux gaming using Ubuntu as their default distro. Still, I wish them well and hope they don't Mir-Scopes-phones-Unity this thing. :wink:

And did I understand correctly that they're only now putting Steam in a Snap?

If you're thinking of SteamOS, it was originally based on Debian, not Ubuntu.

I was thinking of Valve's early decision to bring the Steam client to Linux. Valve chose Ubuntu [External Link] (12.04, I believe) as the one that they and game developers should/would build for.

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Lol, their collective nose must be out of joint from when Valve switched from Ubuntu to Arch, which might have turned out differently had Ubuntu gone '"all in" with gaming on Ubuntu' back in 2012 or 2013 when Valve committed to Linux gaming using Ubuntu as their default distro. Still, I wish them well and hope they don't Mir-Scopes-phones-Unity this thing. :wink:

And did I understand correctly that they're only now putting Steam in a Snap?

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Hmm. I don't have a Steam Deck (yet), so I wonder if the Jellyfin client might work on the SD, too?

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Another feather in the FOSS cap. :)

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I'm so happy about the Bottles integration that I donated my first euro to the project, here. [External Link]

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Quoting: RossBCHaven't got a deck to try it, have been using HeroicBashLauncher for normal linux for a while for game links for steam, it's linked to in heroics wiki as well.

https://github.com/redromnon/HeroicBashLauncher [External Link]

Creates functional bash scripts for steam/lutris would be a solid recommend, if it works without having to install anything extra on the deck for it to work.

Thanks for sharing the existence of this project! This looks to be an elegant bit of kit. :)

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Thanks for the article Liam. Your article and the subsequent dialogue it engendered has acted like a mini-FAQ for me, answering a lot of questions I've had and others I didn't even know I had.

SteamOS 3 looks to be closer to what I had hoped the original SteamOS would be. Once its wings have had time to unfurl and to dry in the sun, I'll be keen to consider it for my living room media machine.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: NanobangAny word on how well the multiplayer works, especially the cross-platform multiplayer?

It appears there are some co-op issues, with it possibly crashing https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/5542 [External Link] however the first comment notes it worked fine on a specific Proton version so it's a bit odd.

That said, Techland did note that there were some issues overall with multiplayer too even on Windows. https://twitter.com/DyingLightGame/status/1489607307164106758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [External Link]

Dear gamers, thank you for your feedback. Two things on the top of our list: disconnects in co-op mode and problems with redeeming awards, codes, and other in-game content, including Twitch Drops from TechlandGG. Our team is on it. We will update you on the progress.

Thank you for taking the time to write such a thoroughgoing response. Really, that was nice. And it sounds to me like the sort of rough edges most big games have upon release. I'm confident it'll get sorted sooner than later.

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