Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: neffoWhoa, Dark Reign - criminally underrated game.

And it's digitally available only on GOG, same for Dark Reign 2.

Quoting: redman

Quoting: neffoWhoa, Dark Reign - criminally underrated game.

The GOG page has some reviews that playing with WINE is broken, have you had play this version on Linux? I'm intrigued by this game

You mean the 12 years old review? I have both games on GOG so I could try though...

In this list, Empire Earth and Pharaoh are masterpiece for me. I played them a lot when I was younger, and replay them for time to time nowadays too.

I will appreciate! The thing that really make me worry is the no-cd patch not working!

I have to pace myself with Julius (Caesar 3) engine because is soo good!!

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Quoting: neffoWhoa, Dark Reign - criminally underrated game.

The GOG page has some reviews that playing with WINE is broken, have you had play this version on Linux? I'm intrigued by this game

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: hardpenguinLinux desktop needed immutable desktop since forever. To definitively close the issue of system-breaking updates. This could help Linux adoption in the long run.

I guess system-breaking updates is something that happens if you're, I dunno, not using Mint?

Using Mint since Ubuntu drop gnome 2 for Unity :angry: Since then I have to agree that just works almost all the time... I have a really bad issue with the XFCE package after updating (https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=297222) so I will say 99% works great and the 1% is just a headache but when thing break down all are the same, just a headache.

I have two laptops with Linux Mint 20.3 XFCE and each month I make the same questions, do I need to update ? And do I want to update ? And each month I do the same checkbox

• Working enviroment works? It has all correct versions ?


• Docker still works ?


• The games I play are working ? Scummv ? OpenRA ? RetroArch ?


• Zoom ? Skype ? Teams ? Rocket Chat ? Jitsi ?


• Firefox has last version ? Chromium has last version ?


• PHPStorm works ? Eclipse ? Visual code ? Geany ?


• Can I play my mp3 library ?

And all are a Yes so I put it back another month until 2025 or a machine breaks. I understand that sometime you want or need the latest packages to play a game or install something but I really like the mentality of freezing the core and only give updates of the LTS because I don't have to worry no more of the OS and just do what I want, and with Flatpak I can have the latest version of a program if I need it.

Luckily with linux you are on charge and you can choose what you want to do.

P.S: I really really like to try Pipewire and see better Bluetooth, but don't want to mess the packages!! And don't have time to tinker with them, now a day I rather spend my time playing something that tinkering with the OS and packages!

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Quoting: hummer010Torchlight is the game that got me on Steam, and back into WINE. I made the swap to Linux exclusively in 2006, and I dabbled in WINE at that time, it was too unstable, and I played only Linux native games. Until Torchlight.

It was the first game I bought on Steam, and in the years between 2006 and 2009, WINE had crossed 1.0 mark. It was quite a bit more stable than the 0.9x days.

I believe that torchlight was the first game I play on Linux that didn't have to use wine, wasn't from ID Software and wasn't opensource! I have fond memories of playing with a friend.

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They are giving up the game preparing for the remake Gog mailing [External Link] .

The challenging part is to be able to claim the GWENT Welcome Bonus using only linux! Trying to figure out that part yet!

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI'm thinking of buying one for a server or something. I very much hope the GPU War of the future is AMD vs Intel and Nvidia can go away (mostly) -- which since EVGA is no longer making NVIDIA seems likely as they were #1.

I've phased out nearly all Intel CPUs as Ive been on Thank You AMD phase, so this is a weird turn for me -- I just acknowledge Intel has had a open source driver since forever.

Open source drivers dictates a much higher probability I will buy something.

Nvidia is not going anywhere... They rule in the AI and Data science world with CUDA, AMD is second class for say that has something. Perhaps Intel and AMD can take the gamer market and the low cost market, but where the big bucks are expended will be on these A 100 [External Link]

Just my humble opinion!

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: redman

Quoting: ShmerlNo GOG release for some reason?

I assume DRM Free is not compatible with Disney...

All previous Monkey Island games are there, so why not.

Besides, the publisher for it is Devolver Digital, not Disney. They don't have any problems with GOG releases usually.

For my recollection the newer Monkey Island original game is from 2009 and is Tales of Monkey Island, other are older or remakes. On 2014 GOG reach a deal with Disney for publishing the old games of Lucas Arts news [External Link] (I can't find the official link) but on the first chance that they where on discounts I bought them all and was at the start of 2015.

My cynical me don't trust anymore the mouse factory, and even the publisher is Devolver Digital (which I didn't know, thanks for pointing out they have a lot of good titles published ) I believe they must answers the owner of the IP and they will control everything for start to finish.

But let's not damp a glorious day that all the people that have Steam or Nintendo Switch are able to play a new game from an awesome and talented people that been dreaming to make this game for at least 30 years!

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Quoting: ShmerlNo GOG release for some reason?

I assume DRM Free is not compatible with Disney... I really wish it goes to GOG but my expectation is really low, like the Linux version of it, really really low.

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Quoting: scaineServer side AC isn't a silver bullet to every problem. In the case of VRchat, it might be a good solution, but look at their model - it wouldn't work. Remember that SS-AC is computationally very expensive, because everything happens on the server (duh!) and now remember that VRchat is a free game.

It's easy to see its success in hindsight and say "lazy devs, should have used server side", but that's not how a business model works. There's uncertainty and success is the biggest uncertainty of all, so you're not buying a massive server cluster (or paying for an elastic version in a cloud instance) for a free game in the earnest hope it does well and you can sell skins. Nope, you move everything client side and if you're successful, then you can cross/burn those bridges when you come to them.

Honestly, SS-AC usually introduces so much lag/latency that it's rarely a good solution. I think Faceit and Fair..fight (I think?) are the only two vaguely viable solutions out there AND THEY STILL RELY ON CLIENT SIDE PROTECTIONS! The Fairfight, I seem to remember needed kernel/rootkit client side protections, I think.

So please have some empathy here. This situation is because cheaters are dicks. Not devs. They're just trying to earn their living like everyone else. They're not "lazy" or "incompetent" just because cheaters are assholes.

I totally agree with you, one thing that you are missing is cost/benefit balance. Is they are really starting to get in trouble and threading on legal ground because of unhappy customer it will be cheaper to put Easy Anti-Cheat and moving liability to another please.

Just a thought, when the team is small this could be a daunting task to get it right with a custom made solution and if not done right is game over.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: damarrinWhen I click on "The Wheel of Time" link FF warns me of a potential security threat listing a adtraction domain. Not cool.

Sounds like a plugin doing that? Get no issues here.

If you have Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin this happens. In my phone all the links does that.

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