Hasn't Origin been on there for a long time now? Like at least a year...

Wait, maybe I am thinking of GOG Galaxy...

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualFor proprietary games, sure. And for distributions on a slow release schedule with frequently like Debian, Ubuntu LTS, and even Ubuntu proper, sure.

On a rolling-release distribution like Arch? No way. All of the packages are up-to-date, and if they're not, they are up-to-date in the AUR. Flatpak is way too much complexity for me. I tried it when I was new to GNU/Linux and it confused the hell out of me. I'm sure I could manage it now, but I don't want to. I don't mind AppImages because they tend to manage themselves and aren't particularly ambitious. However, even they tend to have less features than the non-sandboxed version (see the Cinelerra-GG handbook for the differences).

I'd rather games come with a .sh install script like GoG games do than be required to deal with Flaptak. I see no place for it on distributions like Arch Linux.

The downside of that of course is you don't get notified when there is a new .sh installer.

So I think the negatives of AppImages is that they will cause duplication of libraries. Flatpak actually depend on the flatpak library version it needs, so should take care of that problem, though it still won't use system libraries, so does cause duplication there. Flatpack installed packages having their own library downloading seems like it could be a different security layer than say one you got via 'apt install <package>' though.

But for sure, Flatpak / AppImage is useful for distributions that are a little bit slower to release updated software.

AUR also has some downsides, like people getting bored of maintaining the PKGBUILD, and it becoming orphaned.

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Quoting: GuestI would look at this or System 76.

So System76's stuff is specific for Linux. Framework is kind of an 'also runs...' BUT (and I give this as a big but), it sure seems they are very open to supporting it, and maybe selling some pre-installed. To me, if I was looking for a generic laptop to run Linux on and wasn't looking for portable gaming; I'd buy a Framework, because of the engineering! If they ever get upgradable GPUs, it'll be a mythical beast!

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Quoting: pbWow, these reviews. Way to mess up the launch...
I play the game on Stadia and I like it, but was waiting eagerly for the steam release to be able to transfer 575h of progress from the first two games. I guess I'll just keep waiting. :dizzy:

Good god! I wish I actually had time / patience / focus to play games for that long. I love the Hitman games, but still haven't spent the time to really play any but the first (and by first I mean the one that came out decades ago before they rebooted the series).

Even the games in my Steam library that have a lot of hours into them, are usually ones with separate launchers. So they sit there loaded up after I've stopped playing the game, behind some windows... and so Steam thinks I've put in 300+ hours into them, but I've likely put in less than half that!

Ha, good example of that is Fantasy Grounds, I think it says I have like 5 hours of playtime on that, but almost all of that is because I've installed it on a couple systems, and that's the cumulative time of downloading the DLC...

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWould have been nice if they'd continued making native ports. But I feel native ports are going to be few and far apart, now that proton makes things 'just work'.

Well, they never did, that was Feral and they only did the first one too.

Yeah, but I mean Feral gets the license to do the ports, and then codes 'em on up. But they didn't do the second and now the third is coming out. That was my point.

Trying to remember the last one Feral did...

Aspyr did Civ6, and most people just bitch and moan about how bad it runs... which it runs fine for me (still runs faster on my desktop PC with a 3080 than it does on my m1 max macbook max pro max ultra, but not by much!)

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Would have been nice if they'd continued making native ports. But I feel native ports are going to be few and far apart, now that proton makes things 'just work'.

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I need the same thing... but for flight sticks, then I can play Elite: Dangerous in Linux (currently using all the crazy stuff set up with my Thrustmaster Warthog). I do have a G27 I should use this on it.

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Quoting: GuestThey will have then ZeniMax (Bethesda, id software, Arkane Studios, MachineGames) bu also Activation Blizzard.

You forgot inXile and Obsidian... pretty sure they own like 90% of the developers known for RPGs.

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Quoting: GuestIt's weird seeing so many think this is a good pattern and praising MS for being gamer friendly lately. Does no one else see these grabs as a great lock-in? Give it a little time, buy another beloved studio or three, then start the MS store exclusivity. With no other possibility from any of those shell publishers anymore, it will be a forced success - what Epic tried but with the capital to pull it off. And then, it could even be a simple swap to UWP and game over WINE/Proton.

Seriously.

Within recent years; inXile, Obsidian, Bethesda. Now Activision/Blizzard.

Still laughing that so many journalists are rounding off to 70 Billion... ignoring the 1.3 Billion dollar difference between 70 and 68.7...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbVb63qPDQ8 [External Link]

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: syylkWell, most Blizzard products were known to run well under WINE since dirt was invented - to the point of speculating if somebody internally was smoothing them at the edges on purpose to keep some sort of unsupported-but-working compatibility...

Wasn't speculation. In the past the WoW team did implement things here and there to smoothen running it in Wine. I don't have a source to hand but it was in public postings from their team on their official forum.

I mean it was confirmed they had a native client at one point during testing, but decided to never actually release it.

They are also one of those few that released an M1 native client for Macs like right away. Wonder under MS, how that'll continue.

On the flip side of this, I got an email today about Ultima Online: Forever having a new expansion!

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