Quoting: GuestI am still waiting for a DRM-free Linux version…

I don't think it's coming. This has become a bad trend recently (see above). At least 3 games came out on GOG not long ago, all missing Linux versions that are available on Steam.

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Quoting: GuestAnybody knows why newer wine versions do not support esync/fsync anymore and if a replacement is in the work?

I asked wine-staging developers, they said the changes in Wine are so significant, that maintaining esync patches is too much work, that's why they were dropped.

See: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36692#c16 [External Link]

I didn't know fsync stopped working though. That sounds worse. I suppose it won't be a priority until fsync support is actually in the upstream kernel. I don't know why that takes so long.

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Quoting: GuestSame reason many companies aren't releasing a desktop GNU/Linux version of something already on Stadia.

They don't have the same reason, because they aren't one of those stupid legacy publishers who are into platform politics. They already released for Linux in the past.

What I don't get more, is that they released it for macOS - simply a gaming hostile platform these days. Releasing for macOS and not for Linux is bizarre.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyHahaha. There's no chance in hell Larian will do a Linux version again. They only did so relunctantly for Divinity: Original Sin did it really badly and then went sulking and ignored their promise to port Dragon Commander as well. Since then, they never so much as mentioned or even acknowledged that Linux even exists.

Just see the replies by that one Larian employee in the Linux thread: he answers the question about the engine version, confirms that the Vulkan renderer is done in-house, but utterly ignores anything to do with Linux. That's how Larian behaved for years now. That tells you everything you need to know.

The employee can't comment on their plans that management sets. And what's the issue with them making the Linux version when they already went through all the trouble of making the Stadia one? That's simply dumb.

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Too bad developers simply decided to ignore GOG Linux users. This also seems to be the case with Blasphemous and Talos Principle which is becoming a very irritating trend.

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Apparently Baldur's Gate 3 is out for Stadia (in-development version). Please let developers know if you want a proper Linux version too:

http://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=652719 [External Link]

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Debian experimental got Mesa 20.2.0: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mesa [External Link]

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Quoting: Avehicle7887If you can compile the kernel yourself, adding fsync is just 1 patch away: https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg/blob/e95ea2a75d489bbd5eb402fcf402e9d42d2e1b5c/linux58-tkg/linux58-tkg-patches/0007-v5.8-fsync.patch [External Link]

How is the progress of accepting that upstream?

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Quoting: brokeassbenwell it'll run on Windows instances [External Link], so that's a unfortunate.

Amazon were too lazy to put an effort in it like Google did. So they are just spreading MS lock-in in practice.

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Quoting: ShmerlEven their Lumberyard is lagging with Linux support.

Not lagging, they drop support for it long time. While cryengine (original, not fork) still supports it...

Even worse then. So Amazon clearly doesn't care.

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