I hope that Microsofta recent move to opensource will open up blizzards games for native Linux versions and an open source version of battle. net :grin:

But I guess the main thing is better working conditions for all employees and that we still get the same great games over our old channels without steam and the ms store.
Funding is save now :)

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Quoting: TheRiddickWish they push out a GOG Galaxy 2 for Linux. Its actually pretty useful launcher under Windows.

Wish they published an api for their website and shop so that others can interact with their backend directly . We have so many cool front ends out there in addition to galaxy

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I think a quick access to a store and downloads in a common gui is necessary.
Why they have to cut Linux and mac builds though, I don't understand.
It would be fine to have Windows builds downloaded as a file from the website like before.
If they don't want to build a Linux or mac installer, fine.Someone will do it if they want to. They could open an api to support that and get away cheaply.

Requiring a middle man to launch a game is a plague.

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I don't know really, have to try the thing first. I could imagine Hearthstone could be nice and other deck builders.
Maybe some top down games like glitch punk.
In docked mode a lot more becomes possible.
I want to see how feasible it is as a media center with Kodi and How well you can do other things like browse the Web, watch YouTube or run Citrix to work remotely.
This depends also on the Codecs that are done in hardware so we don't burn our knees with hot device.

The possibilities are almost infinite but what really happens, can't tell befor the hardware is here.

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Hopefully more improvements will come.
Would be sad to see such a nice thing disappear.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemBest comment in the same vein as above over on phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1299699-canonical-hiring-for-an-ubuntu-linux-desktop-gaming-product-manager#post1299705 [External Link]

If they shipped the recent wine-staging versions and took back the decision for the 32bit libraries, i think we will be in a good position.
Stability and backporting really really important fixes is also valuable for people that just want to play their games and not worry about updating and so on daily.

Ubuntu isn't a rolling distro and shouldn't become one.

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I think the discussions should be done in
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gamebuntu/25544 [External Link]
and
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gaming-on-ubuntu-desktop/25439/ [External Link]
to reach the ubuntu staff and community in the best possible way: their own forum.

Hardly anything to add.
Work with hardware manufacturers to convince them to create open source drivers for their devices and upstream these before the hardware hits the shelfes.

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The new login implementation greatly reduces problems for normal people that are used to username&password instead of the old system with pasting a SID from a json block ;)

It is nice to have a GUI for your games that doesn't rely on proprietary binaries to get your games installed.
Especially when they consider adding other games, this might end up far superior to the galaxy client and its integration plugins.
Clearly something people should get involved in, money and developers to get issues solved fast and the feature requests added is helpful.

https://www.patreon.com/heroicgameslauncher [External Link]
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher [External Link]
I'm sure some of us could help here and i don't mean just creating more feature requests ;)

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It works fine so far with Wine. So even the gog fans can play it already :)

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Quoting: PhlebiacHave you seen GameHub? It seems promising.

There are too many projects out there so i haven't heard of that specific one yet.
Hopefully developer resources aren't spread too thin because of Not Invented Here Syndrome.

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