There is no magical form of DRM that prevents piracy while being convenient for 100% of paying customers 100% of the time. Hell, is there any magical form of DRM that prevents piracy?

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Hoary! Dosbox and wine wrappers! (I bet those are the first 100 games because it's so easy to "port") To be serious, I am excited, it's a step in the right direction and I'm looking forward to legit native gog linux games.

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I would rather see a LGPL2 Project to reverse-engineer Deus Ex.

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Quoting: Heimdall

Quoting: commodore256Judging by the rate of progress, I estimate it well reach 1.0 in less than two years. (more than likely, 18 months) After that, I would love to see an OpenOblivion or an OpenCW for Capital Wasteland (Fallout 3) and maybe an OpenNV for New Vegas.

The developers disagree. Many have stated that they expect 1.0 before the end of this year. Given current development progress, I am almost certain they are right.

I said more than likely it's 18 months. That's a year and a half, not this year September 2015 and I'm fairly confident that OpenMW will reach 1.0 by March 2016.

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Judging by the rate of progress, I estimate it well reach 1.0 in less than two years. (more than likely, 18 months) After that, I would love to see an OpenOblivion or an OpenCW for Capital Wasteland (Fallout 3) and maybe an OpenNV for New Vegas.

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Screw this, I have Spriter and yes, it's for Linux.

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Quoting: Anonymousthings like that were ages ago.

anyway ubuntu is moving on to click-packages...

http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/08/21/ubuntu-in-a-nutshell-app-upload-process/ [External Link]

It's not standard yet, I'll be happy when every distro uses it.

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: commodore256McCoy, Do you not remember when a sudo-apt-get remove gimp in Ubuntu would uninstall Gnome and Xorg?

That is because of the way the package manager works. Nothing else. Still, there must have been a quite serious flaw in the way that GIMP was packaged for such an event to occur.

I know, and the only way to get rid of bad package maintainers is to get rid of them, have the developer bundle the libraries like they do in windows. Also I used Ubuntu as an example because it was designed to be easy to use and it isn't fucking easy. If Ubuntu is suppose to be easy to use Linux, Linux is doomed and somebody having issues on Ubuntu is more likely to get support because it's the most mainstream, so If I have an Ubuntu problem, it's easier to get support for because there are more people that have the same issue and it's easier to search for that fix vs. if it happened in another distro.

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McCoy, Do you not remember when a sudo-apt-get remove gimp in Ubuntu would uninstall Gnome and Xorg? The only way to remove broken packages 100% is to have all of the dependencies in the same package like how when you install Gimp on Windows, it installs a local version of GTK. Also, GlibC changes have broken the old Loki binaries.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyOh for fuck's sake, it's the same stupid bullshit "reasoning" again. I'm so fucking tired of their shit. <img src="http://i.imgur.com/Z9dAMKw.gif" class="img-responsive bbcodeimage-comment" alt="image">

Come on, they have a legitimate reason for not supporting Linux. It's because no two distros are the same. Linux has no Standard API, No Standard API and shared libraries have caused dependency hell. You may say that modern Linux is more compatible with Wine is with ancient Windows Programs more than modern Windows. But Windows Programs from 1995 are more compatible with modern Windows than a Linux Binary from 1995 is with Modern Linux.

CD Projket RED is built on support and convenience, they draw a line in the sand and say what you need to run a binary and having video card specs, cpu specs and OS version is technical enough. any more technical like kernel, glibc, xorg, mesa, alsa and OpenGL versions is way too technical and makes things more inconvenient because most people don't know how to figure that out. The only Linux OS I see them supporting is SteamOS because it's standard because it's hard to support a lot of different distros with different places where libraries are located.

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