Nice suggestions. I added a couple to my wish list.

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Quoting: GuestHave they gotten off their high horse of "Don't install anything outside the AppCenter if you don't want the system to break" yet? Because telling people to do that is nonsense, and the OS shouldn't be in such a bad state that installing a package can completely break it.

I read the blog for you, and it said it doesn't warn you anymore when you install from other sources like Flathub.

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I don't think I ever played the inspiring game, but it does remind me of an old, 2D game with high-rises where I think you played as a detective or police officer.

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When I had to convert multiple Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts and set up parental control that still allowed us to play together on a LAN, I just about threw in the towel. So, I'm really not happy with the Microsoft accounts. That actually extends to other PC games as well.

That said, I worked through the turmoil and we still play Minecraft. We spent quite a bit of time in Minetest for a while, though.

If Microsoft does something super annoying with the game again, I would maybe ditch Minecraft or hack it so we can play offline but still on LAN. I bought that game umpteen years ago when it was operated by a different company. I would not feel immoral hacking it so I can play offline without their control. I already paid for the game 4-5 times now.

Other games do it better: Stardew Valley, Starbound, Terraria, etc.

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Quoting: deathxxxWhy anyone should play this?

Well, if you read the developer blurb, you would know it was created as a reference game. It's not something you'd wave at your Windows friends and say, "Look what we have here!"

But I have to admit the archaic animation does remind me of Zomboid... which then made me realize the similarity of titles. Huh.

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The graphics hit the sweet spot for me. I really enjoy stunning 3D games and large worlds and 1st or 3rd person perspectives, but these Farlanders folks pulled off just the right aesthetic to appeal to me as someone who really got into PC gaming in the C&C: Red Alert era.

I will probably wait to buy it at GOG assuming there will also be a Linux release there!

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Quoting: rklAm I the only one who has every GOG freebie going (over 100 of them now), has Heroic Games Launcher installed on both their Linux desktop and Steam Deck and yet still can't even be bothered installing/playing most of them? :smile:

Part of it is the "friction" of leaving the Steam environment (yes, I know you can add them as a non-Steam game), but I have had issues trying some of them out with Heroic, plus GOG's bizarre refusal to release a Linux GOG Galaxy client (especially egregious when they do actually sell native Linux games unlike those reprobates at Epic) sours me on them.

Maybe. I use Minigalaxy myself, and sometimes forget the GOG games I own, but I probably play my GOG games to about the same ratio as my Steam games. (Ratio meaning have I ever played it at all.)

I haven't tried the Heroic Games Launcher because it seemed the main focus was Epic games in the beginning, which I ignore. Gotta draw the line somewhere. I don't collect free Epic games because... it's basically digital clutter.

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Quoting: ridgeUpgraded to the beta yesterday and it's all smooth sailing. I have three screens so the multi-monitor improvements are super nice to have

By the way, how did you install the beta on Arch? AUR? I don't see version 5.27 even in the KDE-Unstable repo.

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Quoting: M@GOidGranted, is not the same experience as playing it on a 1000 dollar discrete card, but is the same game. It IS the same game. Vanity pushes us out of our senses, to make us spend a lot of money on a system just to play a game "better than in the peasant consoles".

Most of what you said is subjective, which means I also have the choice to enjoy eye candy. Enjoying good graphics is not different than enjoying other art in motion. They are an entertaining spectacle. Have I ever spent more than $600 on a video card? No, because you don't need to at 1080p.

(I am not defending high GPU prices. I still don't have the GPU I wanted to buy years ago because its value to me doesn't match the price tag.)

There is nothing wrong with wanting nice graphics.

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Thank you, KDE developers!

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