Broken Sword game free on GOG now too.

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The problem with the typical bundle for me is that I already have half the games in it, and the bundle's inherent value is significantly diminished - The games that I'm lacking do not compensate me sufficiently for the price being requested.

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Burning Knight [External Link] (native Linux) is at 90% discount in the sale. Quite tempted by that one.

Also Warbanners [External Link] (native Linux) at 70% discount.

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Yeah, I gave the (free) Prologue a try and it is a nice game.

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Something that I'm finding a little unclear about this "Percentage of Steam Users" graphed data:

I personally own multiple Linux computers - my new desktop, my old desktop, my new laptop, my old laptop, my mini-pc connected to the TV, and just recently a Steam Deck. All those devices are running Linux, and whenever I have a hardware survey (on any device) then it is my regular user account "g000h" (using my GOL nickname as an example) signed into the device.

So how does one person owning multiple devices affect the Linux marketshare data?

As a single person, with a single sign-in, does that count as a single entry in the data above? (With Steam installed on 6 different hardware devices.)

Or, is each Device being counted, so I'd count as 6 Linux Steam users according to my machines listed above.

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Yes, I've given it a little try today. Worked for me on my new desktop, once I'd installed SDL mixer library.

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Quoting: jrtIt's only cheaper if you don't have to buy a legitimate Windows licence to upgrade the firmware :D

Frankly, you don't *need* to buy a 'legimate' Windows license to install that operating system. It runs okay without a license and it seems Microsoft is okay letting you use it 'trial-like' until you get around to purchasing your license. They're probably happy enough collecting and selling your telemetry data than not having you using their OS at all.

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Good news for GamingOnLinux - I just bought the full Serious Sam bundle but converted almost all the custom donation to GamingOnLinux. A good way to contribute to GOL, while not giving money to the Devs who are no longer supporting Linux natively in their latest titles.

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Really like this game myself. Played about 15 hours *of the demo* so far.

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The disparaging term 'Boomer' tends to get applied very poorly by younger generations. If you took the youngest 'Boomer' (born 1964), and the earliest decent 'Boomer Shooter' Doom (released 1993) you'd notice an age gap of 29 years. Taking the mid-range instead (median 'Boomer' = 1955) and middle of the 'Boomer Shooter' popularity (approx 1998), then the typical age of a 'Boomer' engaging in 'Boomer Shooters' would be 43 years.

While this isn't especially unusual nowadays i.e. for a mid-40s person to play computer games in their spare time, back in the 90's, it was mostly young people (teens/early 20s) who were playing 'Boomer Shooters'...

Putting this into perspective, a 10-year old gamer could have been born as late as 1990 and still be considered to be a 'Boomer Shooter', similarly an 18-year old gamer could have been born as late as 1982 and still be considered a 'Boomer Shooter'.

So, basically Gen Y / Millennials were the typical age range for playing 'Boomer Shooter' games (and some tag-alongs from Gen X). Practically zero real 'Boomers' were playing 'Boomer Shooters'.

Even the creators of the earliest 'Boomer Shooter' (Doom), namely John Romero (born 1967) and John Carmack (born 1970) were Gen X themselves.

Basically the term 'Boomer Shooter' is derived incorrectly.

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