Quoting: EikeI'm not sure how many people will use the editor, but as an adventure player I'm sure happy seeing such Linux dedication from them.

Me too.

Although I couldn't find anything definite in a quick search, their runtime must have supported Linux for quite a while now. That the editor supports it too is just the icing on the cake :-).

Now, if only someone would make some more good P&C Adventures in the Daedalic style ...

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Even including non-native titles, I'd be hard pressed to assemble a top 5 list of 2019 video games. I guess I could list the 5 least bad, as I did buy eight 2019 releases in total, but I'd really only want to mention games that left me impressed.

So my top 2019 Linux title (#3 overall) is Jenny LeClue! I hope 2020 will be kinder ...

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Quoting: PatolaIt works on my rig absolutely perfect except for the poor performance (specially on the Rattay Tourney). And I've played it for almost 50 h so far.

Yeah. I played it start to finish, 150 hours or so, with minor issues only. Performance was poor, but so is my hardware ;-). Though as there are plenty reports of people with vastly better hardware and same poor performance, a native port would definitely be appreciated. Also, not to forget, during their Kickstarter they listed Linux as a supported platform.

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Quoting: tuubiWrong game I think. :)

Serves me right for writing stuff before I had a chance to wake up properly. I interpreted "This one ..." as a direct reply to my original post, when it was probably not.

Can't comment on Cities: Skylines, unfortunately.

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Quoting: NezchanThe question is, are these the better DLC for it? Or would I need more for a quality experience?

Space Race and Green Planet are the two big DLCs. The former adds AI "opponents", the latter terraforming. So as far as I can tell you're mostly missing out on cosmetic stuff (alternative building skins and additional background music).

On top you should be able to get the "Mysteries Resupply Pack" free on Steam, which can improve replay value a bit by adding more "story events".

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I bought Surviving Mars quite recently when it was discounted on GOG and had quite a bit of fun with it. The top tier gets you that at an even lower price, with 3 other games in addition. Seems like a pretty good deal :-).

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Quoting: fleskI'm not a .NET developer, so I'm not an authority on the subject, but I know our Microsoft teams are developing most of their applications with .NET Core deployed on Linux these days, so I assume it has most/all of the features that .NET has.

.NET Core 2 had probably about 90% of the .NET Framework features and was mostly missing Windows-centric stuff, like the user interface bits and pieces. They've implemented those on top of NET Core 3 now, but they're still Windows only. Mostly, I guess, because the .NET Framework proper will no longer see any (major) new (language) features, so .NET Core is the only path forward. But they're also going to drop "Core" and simply call the next version .NET 5. But I don't expect that to be truly cross-platform either.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotTeams is pretty bad though

It's not bad, it's an atrocity! At work we're phasing out Skype for Business (aka Lync) in favor of Teams, and I thought that was pretty bad. But compared to Teams it's high quality software. Teams bears no semblance to any sort of desktop application and adheres to no desktop UI/UX convention whatsoever. And on top of that it's a memory hog. I mean, neither Eclipse nor Visual Studio require that much RAM!

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Looks like something to keep an eye on. But with a release slated for end of 2020, there's no rush :-).

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Quoting: subNot sure about the legal situation in the US but here (Germany) I'm pretty sure,
that would be a contract that can't be single-sided cancelled in that way.

Not sure about the content of Valve's terms and conditions, but I would assume they say something like "the contract will be concluded by us shipping your order". At least I've seen verbiage to that point in plenty of German online stores. In which case you're not only out of luck, but also out of any possible recourse.

That said, I'm always baffled when companies don't manage to keep tabs on their inventory and either sell more than they have in stock, or keep selling stuff they've actually ran out of. Had that happen to me a couple of times, with shops both small and large. But life goes on ...

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