Quoting: poiuzThe whining about GOG is really bugging me. If you're happy with your DRM gods & Proton then good for you. Just stop the constant complaining about GOG. That's not "ignoring GOG".

Sorry dude, It's popular to hate on stores that aren't Steam here, with the exception of Itch.io, mostly because no one considers it a "real store".

Something, I do find interesting, although a bit tangential to this topic is what we as a community are willing to sacrifice for our comfort or easiness, myself included.

I saw a few posts above lamenting how it's not easy to play a Linux game from GOG and how antiquated the concept of downloading the game off the website is. Yet, we spend a lot of effort adding PPAs, learning the CLI (talk about something actually from before 1998), ldd, protontricks, winecfg, mesa, kernel stuff, tinkering, hacking, sometimes just to get mostly functional desktops.

I wonder how many of us really want to "play on Linux" (sorry for the pun)? The more I think of it, the more I wonder if I really do. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and I like Tinkering with it in ways that I could never do with windows or Mac. I'll never go back! And haven't in over a decade.

But when I want to play a game, I find it really frustrating when I'm missing a library that I have to hunt down or a new kernel doesn't play nice with my graphics drivers or have to tweak wine/proton with my limited game time. It's like I'm frustrated because I'm reminded I'm on Linux with it's flaws and complexities. I just wanted the game to work without problems and relax!

Maybe for us the problem isn't GOG's Linux support. Maybe the problem is more that GOG reminds us we're still on Linux when we'd rather not be reminded of such.

Perhaps that's part of the allure of Steam. It's makes effort to make the Linux-ness of the system not apparent. With proton in the background, many things just work, like on Windows or Mac.

I find this an interesting contradiction and by looking at the comments, I think it's one many of us, myself included, are comfortable with having.

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Nice news about Monster Sanctuary. I think Monster Crown got a recent update as well.

I liked Endless Sky (although I was really bad it). Kinda the same for me with Transcendence. (Also really bad at it)

I'll have to try them again. So fun

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Yeah, this game literally looks right up my alley, except for the multiplayer part, lol. Had anyone had a good experience solo? The stream reviews seemed not so keen on it.

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Quoting: CreakIt used to be a bold offer, proposing independent games and, in exchange, you'd give to the devs and to charities. And for the very first bundles some games would even go open source if they were to reach a certain amount

I think this was the problem. Playing a little devil's advocate here, but let's really think about it. Was this ever a sustainable business model? Helping devs port to linux? Convincing them to open thier code? Letting us not pay them for it?

Look at Steam. People here love them for the Linux support and literally throw money at them. Yet, they can't even do those things that Humble did and we all believe they are very well off financially.

I really think, as nice as it was, it was never going to last. It simply couldn't compete as a store against Steam and GOG, even with the charity and Linux support gimmicks.

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Quoting: dpanterWow they used Micro Mages (NES) in the trailer, an awesome game released in 2019! :grin:

Wow, seems like it was only yesterday...

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More Plug & Play driver support.

Is also very nice.

Also, this is literally the highlight of my day :

Please email all complaints to [email protected]

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So ummm, I saw this on the front page of steam and immediately thought "what nut job would want that!?!"

Now I know. J/k.

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Quoting: GuestOf course, having it sprayed around multiple data gatherers/resellers means that the companies wanting to get full profiles will need to buy data from multiple sources, making their work harder.

Actually, no, not exactly. What has happened is middle men companies that do that for you have taken over that part. So, in reality, it's actually easier for the end company. They just call up IBM or Lexis Nexus or someone else and get all the data they want, sometimes in already the format your need.

You might think it's more expensive since the middle company needs to make money, but not always. Sometimes they take data as payment, so it's free or discounted. Basically trading data.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYou know Linux has finally made it to mainstream desktop usage when we get ports of Skiing games. Do we have Tennis?

Think that's coming right after the other fancy sports games, like Polo ( that's the one with the horses right?) and golf!

:tongue:

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Quoting: Nanobang

Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: NanobangThis got me thinking about how much I'd like to read an article about what's it like to try and game on some of the less popular stalwarts of Linux. I'm talking about distros such as Mageia & Open Mandriva, Mepis, PCLinuxOS,AntiX & Tiny Core, Gentoo & Knoppix, or even Elive. (I'd try it out, but my slow internet would guarantee the whole project would take way, way too long.)

Not sure if it counts, but I ran Sparky Linux for about 4 years on my gaming machine. It's debian testing based.

I don't think there is much difference when the OS is based on another distro upstream. After all the upstream is mostly the same. Most of the issues I had were minor, quality of life, type issues. Presumably due to a smaller dev team, testing base, etc. Everything worked fine. But when something broke, you were a little more on your own.

Hope that helps

It's certainly the kind of thing I'd like to hear more about. I think we all could benefit by listening to each other's tales of woe and wonder gaming on obscure or niche distros such as Sparky. For example, I just hopped over to distrowatch.com to read up on Sparky. The review I found [External Link] did not make Sparky sound good, but then you gamed on it for 4 years, so clearly there was something about it that kept you using it.

Thanks for your comment. I might reach out in the future if I decide to write such an article.

Peace :)

Thank you for the kind comment. I'd be more than happy to help out in the future.

Quoting: slaapliedjehave never understood why people use Fedora on anything that they wish to remain stable. It always seems to break mid-cycle for me, and in terribly fun ways that require a re-install.

I've always held the impression that Fedora was rather stable. It's on my bucket list of OS's to try.

To be fair, I think every major distro runs into it's issues. I like my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but I've learned to never upgrade the kernel if it's first in a new series unless I want to live in the command line for a few days waiting for the graphics drivers to get a new update.

PS, I think this is literally the most polite "distro war" conversation I've ever seen. It's so nice to be here sometimes.

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