Never played these - but - I'd love to see Stunt Car on Steam... Sure I've probably got it on floppy somewhere and could probably run it in DOS-BOX...

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I don't need it - but I'm a sucker... Looks to the right side of my desk - there's my PocketCHIP... Looks to the left left side of my desk there's my Beepy! I don't even use them!

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I've still to finish Doom (2016) - never mind Doom Eternal...

Spent much more time recently playing GZdoom...

I still miss Doom "I" deathmatch - where I worked : we had an IPX (Novell) network - we'd deathmatch in the IT training room and kill the WHOLE LAN with IPX broadcasts!

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Steam Deck 2?

Meanwhile in Australia.... (crickets)

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I own this and I got it running eventually on Ubuntu 22.04 (and even Fedora 36/37 I think) mid/late last year - but I just CANNOT get either the SNAP or the AppImage to work now I'm running Pop!_OS 22.04 (on a Ryzen 7 Desktop machine with Radeon RX6600, and a Ryzen 5 ThinkPad with Vega8 GPU)...

Frustrating!

I had to use the "--no-sandbox" argument to get it to run (Alderon Game Launcher) on Ubuntu 22.04 :
./AlderonGamesLauncher-1.1.69.AppImage --no-sandbox

But that doesn't work on Pop!_OS...

P.S.
Just tried the Alderon Games Launcher install via Lutris - and it works... No idea what magic it does, but it works...

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interesting - that's a long weekend here... but I'll be 8 hours ahead... damn - that's 2:00 am on a Tuesday morning... NAAAAA... bugger that :grin:

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I used it as my daily driver on a gaming laptop (Asus ROG slimline thingie) 5-6 years ago... it was great... I chipped in some money too...

Recently I wanted to try it on my Pi4 (8 GB model) and they want you do jump through a whole bunch of $$$ hoops to get the arm64 version - NO WAY!

Reckon I'll stick with Ubuntu Gnome... Also - wasn't Danielle the "offsider" of the original founder and got him fired / removed?

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25+ year Linux user (Slackware 3) - UNIX even longer... I also use MacOS... I don't use Windows (unless forced to in my job - mostly to RDP to Windows server jumphosts, to then fire up a terminal window to a Linux or UNIX server [yeah - still do some Solaris support])...

I use Ubuntu on my Desktop Gaming system (AMD Radeon GPU, Ryzen 7), 22.04. I also have a Ryzen 5 Thinkpad with Vega 8 running Ubuntu 22.10. I did have Fedora on there, but when RPMFusion didn't / couldn't install a decent version of MPV (my preferred video player on MacOS and Linux) - I wiped it and installed Ubuntu 22.10. Will probably try out SteamOS 3.x when Valve make it available to non-SteamDeck users (I'm in Australia, no SteamDeck here, and I'm not going to jump through hoops just to get one - but - I do want one).

My main use for Linux is the power of the shell, the same reason I use MacOS. It's my job. Whatever gets me up and running with Git and ZSH and a shell and terminal emulator, and where steam is only "sudo apt install steam" - is my choice - Ubuntu does this for me with the minimum of fuss...

I've done a bit of distrohopping, tried various alternative DE's - but ALWAYS end up back at Ubuntu with Gnome... It's the closest UX in my experience to MacOS (I always move the window control widgets to the left too :grin: ).

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Meanwhile in Australia, sound of crickets...

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I've been subscribing to all sorts of mods / assetts lately so I can make private vehicle traffic UN-friendly cities without much luck... This is very timely... Was starting to get sick of it - but this might re-awaken my interest (and force me to do midnight to dawn marathons : "I'll just plonk another metro station there, and THEN I WILL go to bed...")

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