Native linux games usually have the problem that they aren't as tightly integrated with existing storefronts and therefore need more effort to integrate well in your interface.

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I think this should include all raw materials, sounds, music, effects, voices, the project files for the movies and so on. It is not just the immediate game that is important, but tools and other surrounding files like sketches as well. So the spirit and the history of a game also gets recorded.

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Common Engines like Unity,GoDot and UnrealEngine are available to people so it might be just the diff that is required.
Source alone is not the best thing, raw assets are also helpful if we want to remaster them in higher resolution later on.

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While we can still package and update important additional applications outside of the ubuntu repositories, i think we need an additional gaming repo that is kind of rolling.
(and we need to get rid of this snap pack nonsense for everything)
Wine-Releases are a huge bonus if you get the biweekly ones from their repo.
There are tools for Cooling & RGB like polychromatic, CoolerControl or OpenRazer that would be beneficial by default as well.
I am actively looking into remixing the official ISO with all these nice little helpers so i can safely give it to friends and all the recommended stuff is already there.
Any idea how i can pre-configure addons&settings for Firefox in this way?

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Too bad that everyone is focussing on the GSP Cards and the rest is left behind.
A 980 is still a nice thing.
Guess the linux binary driver won't die ever.

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I don't care about this blockchain integration stuff for some new coin on the market that i don't know and therefore don't trust.
BUT this hardware looks weird and i hope they will go back to the drawing board and choose something better.

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If you still have games that are only available on physical media or isos, you should ask gog or the publisher for a digital edition.
Cdrom and DVD are deteriorating and falling apart over time.

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I also agree that we need to preserve the Multiplayer servers.
What if an MMORPG like Everquest,World of Warcraft or Guildwars is no longer profitable and servers go down?
What if a franchise is no longer interesting for the owner like Robin Hood the Legend of Sherwood?
What if the hardware is no longer sold like a Super Nintendo or Megadrive?
It wouldnt hurt the owner of the material to release sourcecode, schematics, assets ,server side binaries, level editors, tools , source of the tools and so on to make it possible to archive it for the future.

Books, Films , art, is preserved in museums and special archives too.

Even Companies like GoG or Blizzard themselfes have to reverse engineer games because only binaries are left and the rest long lost.

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So we have seen the mission statement, the marketing slides.
Now we wait and see if they do more than just a mix of Lutris, Heroic and Linux with a bit of duct tape.
I'd love to see more platforms in OpenSource being supported , MS Gamepass,Rockstar, countless others where the OpenSource community hasn't solved the puzzle yet.
Just getting money out of community projects is lame.

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https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/pull/3480 [External Link] is still marked as work in progress.

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