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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut announced and will support Linux
21 January 2021 at 7:28 pm UTC

Whispers of a Machine from the same developer was also nicely done. Both games worked perfectly with Proton.

GNOME Shell to get an Activities Overview design revamp in GNOME 40
12 January 2021 at 6:59 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: sarmadThe sad thing is that Gnome was the only DE with vertical layout, so there is no alternative to jump to that I know of. Let's hope someone forks it.

No need for a fork when extensions can change such things; here's one possibility for you:
https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix

Simple GOG client for Linux 'Minigalaxy' has a small update out
8 January 2021 at 7:10 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ZlopezI'm using the Flathub version

FWIW, it's in the Fedora updates repo.

Heroic Games Launcher is a new unofficial Epic Games Store for Linux
7 January 2021 at 6:17 am UTC

Quoting: fearnflavioYeah, everything you said is being fixed on the next version that is almost done.

Great! A question about the integrated legendary - are you making customizations to it compared to upstream? If not, perhaps you would consider having it as a dependency again, at least for packaged versions (i.e. RPM)? It's in the Fedora updates repo.

Here's a few of the Linux games we're excited to see through 2021
7 January 2021 at 6:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: NezchanOpen Roads scheduled for 2021

Hadn't heard of this one, and the Steam page doesn't indicate Linux support. Have they promised it somewhere?

Fully playable Caesar 3 open source game engine Julius has a new release
6 January 2021 at 7:24 am UTC

Quoting: ssj17vegetaAnd soon thereafter, we can expect another Augustus release :)

I see Luxtorpeda supports both, nice:
https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages.html

STASIS: BONE TOTEM looks like another great sci-fi horror adventure coming to Linux
6 January 2021 at 7:16 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: CorbenNice! When I asked about Linux support on twitter in November, it wasn't 100%.

Yep, glad to see they are comitting to it at last.

Heroic Games Launcher is a new unofficial Epic Games Store for Linux
6 January 2021 at 6:56 am UTC

Quoting: fearnflavio
Quoting: Phlebiacit never prompts for anything at all and just shows a blank window.
Yeah, I'm aware of this bug and this new version fixed it:

Yep, that's fixed now! Looking forward to UI improvements... I decided to install "A Short Hike" as a test, and saw it still uses xterm for that. Once it finished the installation, I had to close the window manually, and the app window didn't refresh. But when I went back to the library, it recognized it was installed, and clicking it showed the Play/Uninstall buttons.

Search and filter (at least toggle between installed/all) options for the library are also in order, I would think.

When installing, remember the last install location (and maybe have an option to not bother asking all the time).

If you click on your username, it shows you a big LOGOUT button, but no Cancel or Back to Library (have to restart if I don't want to log out, I guess?). Oh, clicking on the username goes back - not very intuitive.

Heroic Games Launcher is a new unofficial Epic Games Store for Linux
5 January 2021 at 7:25 pm UTC

Quoting: undeadbydawnlaunched, and it's doing nothing. At all

I tried an earlier version, and it just had a login loop. Latest version says it changed that, but it never prompts for anything at all and just shows a blank window. It does show an error when run from CLI:

Error occurred in handler for 'readFile': TypeError: Cannot read property 'url' of undefined
at /opt/heroic/resources/app.asar/build/main.js:152:15

Meanwhile, legendary itself is working fine, at least to log in and list all the free games I claimed; I'm happy to cost Epic money.