Did not know I can pause for a month, thanks. Lets wait and see what the 4. Jan brings.
Yes I was hoping that Liam gets a little bit of it, hopefully from the $99 too.

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Hi and thanks for the info.

Just bought Duskers (50% off) and subscribed to the monthly bundle for one year, currently a special offer for $99,-. Even the games in this bundle are not so interesting, there 4 more coming on Jan. 4. and it gives me access to over 60 DRM free games, some are not so bad I think (AI-Wars and other Arcan games for example.)

PS.
For some weird reason there was something about "GamingOnLinux" when I checked out my games, hopefully that did not break this web side :)

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@stretch611
I just played Rimworld for about 30 minutes with the 396.24 nvidia driver without any problems. Maybe this is because I don't use a desktop environment just a window manager?

A while ago I had to disable the multi threading in the nvidia driver for X-Rebirth. After that the game was playable but had some graphic problems. I don't remember what driver version it was.
Does someone know if this problems are still there? I forgot how I disabled the multi threading :)

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I was hoping a game like this will be for linux someday. Good news.

@silmeth:
SimFarm from 1993 can be played with DosBox and you can find a free Download on the internet. I hope that is legal.
Just tried it and it works out of the box. If this is still fun to play or not you have to decide by your self.

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It looks a little bit like spacechem but with better graphic. I really like spacechem, so I'm looking forward to this game.

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Just bought it for €3.59 (I'm surprised that the GBP is so low, or the € is so high).
At the moment I'm waiting for the account confirmation mail. Before I get that I don't have access to the steam keys. It looks like each game has its own key. If that is the case I may be able to give the some keys away. Some games I already have. We will see.

Writing this and checking leo to figure out the difference between the words "may" and "might", the account was confirmed and I got the first key :)

Thanks for this information.

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I gave up to try to convert people to use Linux. Sure when someone ask me I will recommend it of course. There are two reasons why I stoped.

First, you have to do the whole support and then someone else is talking about a cool application which runs only on windows, Linux is replaced by windows as fast as possible. A friend of mine was happy with Linux using Inkscape and Gimp. Then someone showed him Photoshop (the one for >$1000 some years ago). The next time I visited him, the Linux system was replaced by windows and Photoshop, of cause he did not pay for it.
Not sure this is possible today with all the DRM. As long as someone gets the application for free, there is no pressure to use something else.

The 2nd reason is that I always felt like I have to defend Linux against the other OS (often that includes the applications). People don't like changes. And usually there don't care about rights and security as long as its easy to use. How else could someone explain why so many people using cloud systems? And has anyone read the EULA of windows 10? (I'm sure not even one lawyer of MS knows that thing in full.:)

What I do if someone ask me for help with her or his computer I ask what OS is installed. Sometimes there don't know what that means or that there are alternatives to windows. If its windows I say that there should find someone else. Why should I spend my spare time to fix a system form a multi billion $ company? MS should give there costumer better support.

One last thing. Reading the postings in this thread I read about capitalism. As I understand that this means the market are all what its needed to do the regulations. But for one thing, there will never be a pure capitalism like there will never be a pure communism. The other thing is that capitalism always will lead into monopolies like we have with windows. MS had never a real competitor in the OS market. And in the other market there where very aggressive to competitor.
(For people who are interested in how the money system works and understand german, look in youtube for 'Bernd Senf'.)

Just my 2cents

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Stopped playing Minecraft a while ago. Don't think I will play the new version for two reasons. First, all the mods are mostly for 1.7 and 2nd I like FortressCraft Evolved even better (443h on steam counter). But maybe thats because I played moded Mincraft for hundreds of hours and after a while its the same all over again.
(Not sure if its fair to compare FortressCraft Evolved with Minecraft.)

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This are the games I played in the last 2 weeks.
By reading through the posts here, it looks like nobody else played one of those games lately.
XPlane 11 beta
X Rebirth
AdVenture Capitalist Not sure this one counts as a game at all.
Dominions 4
Romopolis
Factorio
FortressCraft Evolved

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When I understand this right, the game itself is running on a server and not local. But is has the multi player icon on the steam shop side so I guess its multi player too which makes it unique in its class of games (there are only a few though).
(Thats like Gremlins Inc. needs a server too even in single player.)

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