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Quoting: Shmerl…

Gentlemen, you are derailing the thread!

It is about GOG's sale, not Feral's folly. :whistle:

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Due to extremely poor service, I decided to limit my number of purchases on GOG to 4 annually (once per quarter), and their limit for the first quarter has already been spent. :P

Oh, and I won't touch this "whitcher goodies" so-called gift even with a 10 meter pole! Good luck selling me any "CDProjekt RED" related ware after TW3 debacle. :whistle:

Quoting: ShmerlThey worry too much about their DRM, so GOG users don't need to worry about them.

I don't think Feral®'s choice is due to DRM (at least in the first place). If it was, they would be inserting 3rd-party DRM solutions themselves (like, "Always Online" checks), which is not the case.

Most probably, they rely on Steam for monetization, being "publishers" for Linux versions and bypassing original "publisher" when it comes to sale accounting. GOG does not provide this "segregation" functionality hence, does not have working mechanism to determine when a porter gets paid for its work (due to Linux sale) and when not, and original "publishers" are not eager to give a porter its cut from all sales (99% of which have nothing to do with Linux, considering GOG virtually surrendered Linux market to Steam without a fight).

That being said, Feral could organize DRM-free sales from its own "store", but instead it is just a Steam™ key reselling masquerade. Feral sure is hanging tight on Steam™ and won't see a sell from me till this changes.

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Quoting: Linuxer<…>
Did not find CMake 'cmake'
Found CMake: NO
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Run-time dependency x11 found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
meson.build:99:2: ERROR: Dependency "x11" not found, tried pkgconfig
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meson.build:21:0: ERROR: Compiler gcc -m32 can not compile programs.
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So that's where i am, any ideas?

I have at least three!
1) you need to install "cmake" building system;
2) you need to install x11 development package ("libX11-devel");
3) your c compiler/linker can not produce 32-bit executables because most probably you do not have 32-bit version of "glibc-devel" (development files for GNU C Library) installed. This is most probably needed only for 32-bit version of "MangoHud" and is not what you want. Maybe you can disable 32-bit version compilation in the script? Or, just install the package. :)

Regardless, it is easier to just download pre-compiled utility. :D

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Previously, some folk on Egosoft forums has complained having two identical devices results in wrong detection. I hope this has finally been resolved.

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyHopefully this comes to GOG.com. because I like the look of it and would buy it if I could get it on GOG.com...

Why GOG? Itch.io has everything you probably need (DRM-free, client, "Early Access" access).

Does Itch.io have DRM-free content too? Might have to take a look then...

It mostly has DRM-free content! Usually, upon purchasing one is redirected to the download page for the files and other goodies. I've personally seen only one game where the developer explicitly stated that costomers would get Steam™ keys and nothing else.

It is a feature of itch.io to explicitly telling what files paying customers would get (up to the exact file names, sizes and game versions).

In our case it is as follows:

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:
the-farlanders-windows.zip 35MB Windows
the-farlanders-linux.zip 36MB Linux
the-farlanders-mac.zip 35MB Mac

The upsides:
1) Ease of use by developers. No famous GOG's "curation", no long QA process, no missed updates;
2) No "GOG Galaxy" API BS. Everyone is equal (you most probably will not left waiting for updates while Mac and Windows users enjoy playing);
3) Ability to create custom personal collections (AKA "whishlists").

The downsides of itch.io are:
1) No regional pricing;
2) It is up to developer to provide quality assurance. Most of the games are simply zip-archives without any sort of installers or DE integration. Some assembly may be required! (The last purchased game there refused to run on Fedora. It required infamous "libssl.1.0.0" and "libcrypto.1.0.0" which I have downloaded from ancient Ubuntu repo as well as one other library which is available, but has different naming in Fedora, so copying and renaming it did the trick).

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyHopefully this comes to GOG.com. because I like the look of it and would buy it if I could get it on GOG.com...

Why GOG? Itch.io has everything you probably need (DRM-free, client, "Early Access" access).

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Quoting: Dunc…I imagine if it was easy (or even just “not virtually impossible”), it would already exist.

Eeew… GLXOSD? It is abandoned, though.

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Honestly, I don't see a problem here.

A Windows™ game bought and played on Linux is still a Windows™ game none the less. Why developers should care what players are using if they are paying? Plus, as an added bonus, developers are not responsible for any bugs on unsupported platforms.

And one can not blame Proton™ for anything either: it does just what it was designed for -- it brings Windows players to Linux. And it is up to those players to stop buying Windows games from then on.

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Quoting: SalvatosSo it only has explicit violence? :P

And, apparently, narrated violence. :)

Quoting: SalvatosIt’s also on itch [External Link] by the way.

Sadly, as for now, the page is just a placeholder. No information as for whether there will be a full release, or the page is just for promotional/demo purposes.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Alm888Here at Fedora we do not call 3rd-party repositories like "RPM Fusion" some fancy names

Well, we do have "Cool Other Package Repo"
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Copr [External Link]

Nah. That's server-side infrastructure for creating/maintaining repositories. From user's perspective it is still enabled via ordinary "/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo" config files.

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