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Latest Comments by Arehandoro
10 years ago GamingOnLinux was created, what a ride it's been
5 Jul 2019 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 2

Congrats Liam! And to everyone else involved in the web.

I don't remember* how many of those 10 years I have been enjoying the content, but I do hope there are many more.

Special mention to the community, without you, this would not be possible either. One comes for the news, but stays for the people.

Coincidentally, it's also Friday, there is overall good weather (at least in London) and tomorrow might be Wine release so I'll get ahead and open a bottle to do a summer classic "Tinto de verano".

Cheers!

EDIT: Any chance of creating a community room in the Matrix network?

*Just looked it up, almost 4 years ago :D

Synergia, a cyberpunk thriller visual novel will support Linux and it has a demo - it's quite impressive
4 Jul 2019 at 12:20 pm UTC Likes: 4

The music is captivating and the intro works perfect to set oneself in the right mood. The quality of the video also seems more of an anime than from a video game. Aesthetically, with that beautiful red-ish palette, looks great too!

Also, I recently discovered that my partner enjoys watching me playing visual novels (replaying Phoenix Wright now) so it might be a good addition to my collection of games to play when we're together.

Freaky looking pixel-art survival horror "Lamentum" is planning to support Linux, currently crowdfunding
2 Jul 2019 at 12:49 pm UTC Likes: 4

After Shenmue 3 I have decided to not back more Kickstarter projects -at least for the time being- but I wish them luck. If they eventually release it for Linux I'll be happy to give it a go as it looks quite good.

Valve release an official statement about the future of Linux support, they "remain committed" to Linux gaming
27 Jun 2019 at 6:13 am UTC

Quoting: Linas
Quoting: Salvatos
Quoting: Mountain ManAt this point, what is the best Ubuntu alternative?
Depends on what you're after. I left Ubuntu after they forced too many UI decisions I didn't like, so Mint was a natural choice for me. Similar look and feel to good old Ubuntu + Gnome.
Debian Testing is also a good choice. It's basically the same system under the hood, so it's not even that much of a change. And Debian Testing is a rolling distribution with packages that are fairly up-to-date. And if you need bleeding edge, there is Debian Unstable. And even Experimental if you are really adventurous. :)

The biggest difference is that Debian is much less opinionated than Ubuntu, Mint, and other derivatives. They don't have the Debian desktop experience, but rather ship upstream packages. So you get vanilla GNOME, vanilla KDE, etc. with minimal branding from Debian.
I’m actually surprised Valve have not mentioned at all Debian on their last post. I always considered, and still do, Debian the most appropriate distro. Although newer Mesa/Kernels, in an apt repo, would be ideal for sid to have the perfect combination whilst gaming.

Retro themed city-builder 'TheoTown' has now added Linux support
25 Jun 2019 at 5:54 pm UTC

I didn’t know those inclined towers from Madrid were so famous as to appear on a videogame.

Raspberry Pi 4 announced and available - sounds like a pretty nice upgrade, Raspbian now based on Debian 10
24 Jun 2019 at 11:53 pm UTC

I have an i5 with 16GB in use for all my main projects, that originally started on a rpi 2 that eventually died. The new updates sound great, though and might be the time to get a new one and tinker a bit more even.

Science Fiction point-and-click Encodya has a demo released, will go to Kickstarter
18 Jun 2019 at 12:16 pm UTC Likes: 2

Didn't have a clue about this game, or the short movie, but also subscribed and all my attention to it! Thanks to the developers for being friendly and keen to bring the game to Linux!

The E3 2019 Linux gaming round-up
12 Jun 2019 at 10:56 am UTC

Quoting: liamdaweThe thing to remember about Stadia is that games do have to run on Linux. It's literally Debian under the hood. However, most AAA titles have high levels of abstraction for APIs, since they often run on Windows, PS4, Xbox, Switch and some on Mac, so getting it on Linux with Vulkan for bigger studios isn't going to be a lot of trouble.
PlayStation OSes run on a variant of BSD and that didn't bring us more games from their platform. My opinion is that Stadia running on Debian is more a fun fact that an actual game changer or factor to take into account.

Vulkan, however, might be a better indicative for our interests.

Commandos 2 HD Remaster announced, Kalypso Media bringing it to Linux
11 Jun 2019 at 3:45 pm UTC

Quoting: flesk
Quoting: ArehandoroHold on... what about the first game? Is that also being remastered?

In any case, happy for this announcement and will get it for sure!
As far as I recall, the first game was never much of a hit, and the sequel can easily be played as a stand-alone game.
Actually I remember being the other way around. We had lots of news back then, I'm from Spain, telling how good the game was, how well it was selling in Europe, the controversy around it in Germany and stuff like that.

I never played much of Commandos 2, my PC was crap when the game released, until years later but also my friends talked less about it than with the first one.

Seems weird to me that if they are making a remaster they jump to Commandos 2 straightaway, unless being possibly easier to remaster a 3D engine rather than the original one.

Edit: Wording.

Commandos 2 HD Remaster announced, Kalypso Media bringing it to Linux
11 Jun 2019 at 2:31 pm UTC Likes: 2

Hold on... what about the first game? Is that also being remastered?

In any case, happy for this announcement and will get it for sure!