Quoting: TheSHEEEPBut "just works" is a necessity if Linux is to attract more gamers. The vast majority don't have the skillset or patience like you or me (or many others here) to fiddle around with anything. Hell, for some, having to install Wine to install their game is already too much.

In my case a great deal of the games I play through WINE no longer "just work" on modern Windows anymore. There is a real opportunity for WINE to corner the retro PC gaming market as for many older Windows games it is now easier to mess around with WINE than to try and get them running on Windows 10. It is for this reason that I have really started to warm up to WINE over the past few years.

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Quoting: ShmerlI don't mind tinkering with Wine. One problem with "just works" approach that was also used for example in PlayOnLinux installation scripts for games, is that it grew huge and no one was maintaining those scripts. So they quickly became obsolete. It's safer just to install something yourself using newest submissions in Wine AppDB.

Pretty much my feelings when it comes to WINE wrappers as well; I would much rather just do the heavy lifting myself and get things working just the way I want them than rely on third party packages and scripts. Of course given that I am an Arch Linux user that idea kind of comes with the territory anyway.

Not everyone is going to be both as patient and anal as I am.

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Runs natively on Windows (XP to 10), Linux (Red Hat AND Debian), and OSX

Red Hat AND Debian? Really does feel like the '90s again. ;)

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Quoting: stretch611Any reason why we need to update every month?

That's simply to count only active users and to confirm real data. Once a month is better than once a quarter, for more accurate counting.

Besides, it is also for Gamification. Every month we get to play "click the link". ;)

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The skull on my Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition icon is probably just going to keep starring at me woefully as I continue to be too busy working on the farm outside to be able to continue my campaign. Bhaal is an emotional sort.

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I have only changed my primary distribution once in eleven years of using Linux full time.

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Quoting: NonjuffoI don't think GDPR applies to services like Github. If it did, it would also apply to things like scientific journals, which operate on the same basic underlying principles (i.e. the content is deliberately publicized along with the (pseudo-)identity of the authors).

How about Wikis just to broaden the discussion a bit?

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And it has now finally appeared on the 3D Realms store.

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I am still not seeing the update at all on the 3D Realms store. Not the best way to treat the customers that have chosen to support you directly 3D Realms.

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Just picked up the soundtracks for the all of the Baldur's Gate games since it still counts as another Linux sale, as well as Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition. Beamdog ought to love me today. If nothing else though, I am helping to diversify the local economy. ;)

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