Is there (temporary?) exclusivity for the Stadia Makers program? I see at least two games in that list that are followups to existing games (Figment and Darkside Detective).

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Quoting: Ehviswhy is there a crash option in the settings? Which actually crashes when you click it.

Truth in advertising!

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Quoting: EhvisThe only thing I've found mildly useful has been curators about special features.

Agreed; some I've found useful: "Proton Compatible", "Broken Linux Promises", "Powered by DOSBox", "Powered by ScummVM", and "icculus.org".

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"alluring 3D world"? Those are some rather flat looking polygons.

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A remaster of the old Indy games would be awesome! I guess Lucas is more protective of that (and Star Wars!) than they are of Day of the Tentacle; I enjoyed this one:
https://catmic.itch.io/return-of-the-tentacle [External Link]

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Quoting: kuhpunktWas even part of the Humble Monthly a while ago

Oh, that must be why I already have it!

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Quoting: Thetargos[Some times I see Wayland catching up to the X features

I think most of the "catching up" the last couple years has just been about improving XWayland, i.e. backwards compatibility. It seems Wayland already has features that X11 never will. But since I'm playing games on Nvidia drivers, I'm still running X11! Eventually, enough games will be using SDL2 and thus run on Wayland natively, and XWayland support for Nvidia drivers will have improved enough.

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Quoting: LinasTo find stuff on the desktop you have to literally move whatever you are doing out of the way

It seems a lot of people like running everything with their windows maximized; I know GNOME3 was trying to encourage that at one point. Personally, I can't stand that.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut certainly for what I use most, I like to put a launcher on a toolbar. The toolbar is normally visible, and I launch with a single click, which is faster than any of the more newfangled search-oriented schemes. I don't know what things are like now, but early Gnome 3 was very much against the idea of letting you have a toolbar or put a launcher on it... I understand that nowadays if you install the right extensions you can frustrate the design ambitions of the Gnome people sufficiently to do many useful things, probably including that.

I like this one (there was another before that, but it stopped being maintained):
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/ [External Link]

I understand it was largely based off of this:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/ [External Link]

Which really is mostly taking GNOME's built-in "dash" and making it always visible.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI have a lot of games (though not by some people's standards), and I don't always decide which one in advance. So it's kind of good to have a few of the games I'm currently interested in as desktop icons; I close up or minimize other software, have a look at what I might want to play, and pick one. Desktop icons can also be nice for that file I need to do something with in the next couple of days--put it in the desktop and resize it big so it'll be there staring at me as a reminder.

I very much can relate to these points.

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Thanks for the review; got this in a trade a while back and haven't looked at it, but sounds like I should install it!

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I was surprised to see "6.0" until I got to the part about it being open source. Commercial games usually put out a sequel they can charge for, rather than have so many major updates.

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