Quoting: FurorGood news:
The new Wine Staging repository is thriving! [External Link]

I suppose we don't have to change anything if we're subscribed to the official winehq repos (listed here [External Link]?

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Quoting: webcreatureDefinitely going to check these scripts out! Very interesting stuff!

It makes me think, if a developer doesn't want to spring for a full, native Linux port, then why can't they at least do something like this?

My entirely uneducated guess is that they wouldn't want to take responsibility (or create the expectation of responsibility) as to what works and what doesn't, etc. Even if they put gigantic disclaimers all over the place, the script they release would be perceived as the 'official script of $DEVELOPER', which would be taken to commit them to *some* degree of support, where they might not want to provide *any* of it.

(--Hey, I spent money on this title, because you offer such and such wine script, but it doesn't work; --Sorry but we've made no promises as to whether it would work; --Bullshit; now I'll go an metabomb your stupid game to hell.)

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Quoting: adamhm

Quoting: hummer010On top of that, buying the System Shock games supports Nightdive, who are bringing the new System Shock game to Linux.

Speaking of which... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock/posts/2115044 [External Link] :/

Wow. I did not see that coming.

Ouch... I've been suspecting all along, that they were they trying to turn it into an open world action-rpg-heroshooter-MMO... (/s)

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Quoting: hummer010Entirely contained. Adam's scripts are as close to playing a native game as you can get using WINE. I highly recommend checking them out.

They're also very tidy, easy to read & understand; so you can always edit them to your liking.

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Quoting: EikeAnd the writing is a challenge to my English knowledge, by the way. The descriptions are rich and well written (as far as I can judge).

Games are great for language practice; you get immersed in everyday language for dozens of hours.

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Vulkan use is great news.

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Quoting: areamanplaysgameIt's almost like they don't know how much of the Internet securely runs on Linux machines.

Imagine thinking someone is going to modify the source code and compile their own damned operating system expressly to cheat in your HALO fan game. Just imagine.

What an ignoramus.

People are conditioned (indoctrinated, even) into associating the corporate/proprietary/locked-down/DRM-ed with the 'legit' and the 'secure'; so it's really just a symptom of a much wider problem. When someone calls this faith in the propriety into question, the response is that they're doing this out of *their* own ideological convictions; but it's so easy to produce concrete examples that proprietary software *hides* security vulnerabilities, 'fixes' them incompetently and whenever convenient, etc. etc. etc.

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Quoting: MohandevirWill we discover that it is based on Microsoft's custom Linux distribution and that Miux really exists? Lol!

They were a Unix vendor in the early '80s. Maybe they've kept a clandestine Xenix division all along -- only now, they're emerging from the shadows.

EDIT -- Seriously, though, although the GPL (not just v3 but v2 also) wouldn't allow anyone to 'secretly' release a Linux-based OS, I suppose they can build everything on top of BSD, *keep it a secret*, and get away with it, right? I mean, the licensing would permit that.

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Quoting: liamdaweHowever, this is the same Microsoft that tried to force the tiled interface on everyone and that came with a whole host of issues.

And they seem to have survived the backlash against those stupid decisions just fine. Sure, they made some concessions, but it's also important to keep in mind that 2-3 years ago, many well-informed, no-nonsense, serious people were putting forward very well formulated reasons as to why M$ had sentenced itself to eventual irrelevance by the unusable ui (even on servers), pissing off/almost-backstabbing OEM partners, and so on. So this is a scary thought: They are capable of making the dumbest decisions ... and then get away with it. If, in the wake of yet another idiotic M$ adventure, it's Vulkan adoption, or GOG, or whatever else that comes off as the losing party, that will be awful enough.

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> What with Linux being open sourced, it's extremely difficult to write an anti-cheat for that platform because anybody can make any changes they want to the OS.

I've been seeing variants of this notion elsewhere --- that being open source is a security liability, because 'the bad guys can also see how everything works, etc. etc.' ---- in the news, non-technical opinion articles, etc. It's worrying to see BS of this sort gaining traction.

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