I was about to hound the dev for ripping assets from Leaving Lyndow until that third paragraph. Checking on itch, Leaving Lyndow still does not advertise a Linux build of the game.

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This dev should look into doing an "Education Edition".

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No libre client? They should have called it Kongregate Kancer.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: madchaotikanIt would be interesting to know the perdentages of linux within 5000000 copies and if Linux itself has a positiv ROI.

This game was the main argument for me no longer dualbooting into Windows. Since them for me Linux games have the critical mass reached.

A few weeks ago, someone representing Paradox apparently complained about Linux sales being too low for making Linux sustainable. Liam had it covered here.
It's actually really hard to believe that our usual market share of 1-2% of 5,000,000 sold copies (we're still talking 50-100k Linux copies) wouldn't be enough to cover Linux-specific costs, but that's what they said.

Btw. Same here. For me, Cities Skylines marked the turning point in operating system usage for gaming purposes. After getting it and the games following it, I booted into Windows less and less. One of Microsoft's awesome updates seemed to have corrupted the BCD, a few months ago. I never bothered to repair it. With WINE having made dramatic progress last year and able to run most of my older Windows games now, there is not a serious reason left for me to use Windows for gaming. No, I don't play PUBG. :D

I adopted Linux on my main systems around that time, late 2014 - early 2015. The three games I first played after doing so were Deadcore, The Talos Principle and Cities Skylines. Everything worked flawlessly and I will always recall those titles fondly because of the newness of the experience.

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Quoting: sbolokanovNo-GOG policy. No-Steam policy.

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I move to proper hardware (Vega I look at you) and buying more books (real books, the ones on paper).

To need to add 32bit crap on your 64bit system, just to download 64bit game is really annoying.

GOG does not force you to download anything 32 bit IIRC unless the game itself is 32 bit.

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Homogeneous multi-GPU is making my unused GPU collection yearn for some action.

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Do they plan for it to ever move out of "experimental" status?

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Quoting: gomeraSo, are you guys buying games from GOG even though they never finished the promising GOG Galaxy for Linux? For me it's a blocker, I prefer still buying games on Steam because of the simplicity when installing games. Am I missing something? cause installing manually dependencies may be a pain in the neck. Is it just because of DRM Free? Just asking, not trying to impose my idea to anyone.

While it would be nice for them to finish porting Galaxy, I view the ability to run games without a client as a strength. It just makes sense to have games install right to your system menu, the same location from which you launch any games installed from your package manager also. If Valve made the Steam client optional (or open sourced^_^), I would be much more supportive of them.

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Quoting: coesetaLet me translate it Liam. They want to build a Linux version for the backers and if we are unlucky there won't be an official Linux build to buy. This kind of makes me worried :/

This is probably yet another case where they let the software come to rely on some middleware or other lock-in and now are scurrying to buy time before they realize the error and cannot deliver a non-windows build. The real translation works out to something like this:

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Quoting: melkemindAre Itch.io alphas like Steam and GOG Early Access where you pay once and get access to all future builds?

Yes they are. Every in-development game I have on Itch has been kept up to date, with Astrokill being the most recent. Games update silently in the background like they do on Steam.

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