Quoting: DudeskiWell, not like the FSF is known for being particularly rational or non-douchy when it comes to these things. Those people would much rather just see all "non-free" software dead and gone.

How is the FSF defending the rights of those who use their license make them acting like a douche? The Game Dev Tycoon developers made a mistake and violated the license; actions have consequences.

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Am I the only one who has used old Linux games (1998) with next to no trouble on modern distributions (Fedora specifically)?

And DOSBox does not count as Microsoft has nothing to do with it.

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It is the price for doing things in a professional manner. While trying to be supportive to developers is often the right thing to do, they are trying to make money off a game title, and if they are hoping to seek financial gain from a free software project they have to do things properly otherwise they are abusing other people's work for their own gain. So I really do not see why I should be terribly sympathetic in this case. It is a not a huge faux pas on their part, and I am not angry at them for their mistake, but I am not terribly sympathetic to them simply because they were affected by their error. 

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Well, thanks everyone for flooding my inbox. It is a hell of a thing to come home from work to see 91 messages waiting for me...

If there is one thing that could make me a GoG customer, it would be for them to sell games without any modification on their part at all. Just the plain original MS Dos versions, or even better, just the game data without any other components when selling games that have source ports. This is something that I have been wanting to see for a long time, as it would make it much easier to fashion my own solutions, and really would take next to no effort on their part. Not even negotiating for the rights to sell on a new platform.

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Quoting: philip550cthey can still follow their policy and just use ubuntu (come on guys the distro choice is obvious) and let the community figure out the other distros.

But is it that obvious? With Ubuntu trying so hard to become incompatible with every other distro under the sun it may not be the best bet on its own anymore.

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Quoting: n30p1r4t3Ubuntu and Arch. Kill the rest ;)

First, with Fedora and Debian gone, Ubuntu and Arch could not exist. Secondly, Arch would be a very stupid choice for a supported distro (and I am saying this as an Arch user, among other things).

I think most people who advocate for killing off all the other distros, especially Ubuntu fans, would be very surprised to learn how interdependent they are, especially on upstream distros like Fedora or Debian that provide most of the technology and infrastructure that the others utilize. And when it comes to that distrowatch statistic that has been floating around, one should realize that not all of those are desktop distributions, and many target certain niche markets which do need a specially tailored distro in order to be useful. There really is not as much specific desktop fragmentation as many believe.

And speaking in general terms, I really do believe that proprietary applications have no place in a distribution's package manager. They are designed for free programs with source code available, and trying to shoehorn pre-complied applications into them is a headache people should not attempt. Proprietary applications should just ship with their own installer, or use one of the excellent ones available such as mojosetup. Then you do not need to worry about using a deb, rpm, or any other format.

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I do not use Wine enough to honestly be bothered to get multiple versions of it, even if PlayOnLinux is supposed to make this less difficult.

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Indeed, that does make more sense, especially if you are using an APU.

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Quoting: liamdaweThen you have to deal with Wine updates, a single update from one version of Wine to another can completely break a game (this has sadly happened to me before) and rolling back to an older version isn't as simple as 1-2-3 done.

Only once? :P

At any rate, I use Wine heavily for archaeological purposes, but I would never use it for a modern game. The only modern games I play are Linux native and DRM free, and that's final. The good part of this is that Wine works best with older games anyway, and I personally feel they should put even more of a focus on these and less time on moderns ones, but I am hardly in a position to tell them what to do.

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Why the need for a new CPU? Since they are using the same engine, can the hardware specifications really have changed that much?

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