Problem with this setting is, as you can also see in your picture:
Only show me games which support one of these operating systems

Which renders it useless for the wishlist, as it only shows games which supports Linux already.

Why not making it way easier? I run the client on Linux and if I wishlist the game then it counts for Linux.

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I played a few games from Blizzard:

World of Warcraft on offical servers. Left the game with Cataclysm, and gave it another try, after what happened to Teldrassil. But this game is so broken and casualized meanwhile, that is no fun to play.

Overwatch which I got with Humble Monthly Bundle. Cool graphics, but booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring!

Warcraft III and Starcraft I Yes, this games rocks after all these years :D

Evoland as Legendary Edition. Finally Evoland II on Linux.

Besides that some good old games (no, not from GOG) on my Retro-RasPi :)

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Quoting: Ehvis

I also have a confession to make, I have still never played Psychonauts. Am I mad? Should I seriously set time aside to play it?

Good question. I have it, but never bothered to actually try it.

Then you should play it.

TODAY!!!!

It's an amazing little gem.

Do it now! :)

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Quoting: ChronariusMeh! Not on GOG yet. Last update was at 19th June "Grand Buildings Update" :(

Yeah, I've got it on GoG and they've been a bit slow updating it :whistle:

Now it is available on GOG too. Have fun!

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Meh! Not on GOG yet. Last update was at 19th June "Grand Buildings Update" :(

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Quoting: KristianAside from gaming what are the most cited missing applications? MS Office? Visual Studio? Autocad? Adobe's suite of software? Anything else?

You can remove Visual Studio from that list!
https://code.visualstudio.com/Download [External Link]

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Quoting: Mountain ManMy wife recently bought a new laptop with Windows preinstalled. I spent a couple of hours uninstalling all the junk software that it came with and configuring the OS so that she could use it.

I had another older computer that needed a fresh OS install, so I put KDE Neon on it. The whole process from start to finish took about 30-minutes, and it "just worked".

I hate Windows.

Same here esp. Windows 10. Best is to buy it with the hardware otherwise you will run in lots of issues. Beginning with creating an Installation medium. Took me a while to figure that out. To get Linux on an USB-Stick I need only dd, but for Windows you need an extra Tool. It seems they haven't heard about hybrid installation images yet.

The Installer told me several times that he can not install Windows 10 on several systems, because it might not be able to boot afterwards from that partition. WHAT?!?!. Not to mention that the Installer still looks like from the 90s.

Finally I got installed it on my wife's laptop, but with a hell lots driver missing. No WiFi, no Bluetooth, no graphics card, and so on. WTH?!?!? Every Linux Distribution takes about 15-30 Minutes to install and runs fine on it. But that is the point where I gave up. The Laptop Vendor doesn't offer Windows 10 support, so no drivers on his website. Sorry, times are long gone that I start looking for drivers on the Internet esp. if Linux does meanwhile a hell lot better then Windows.

It is running now, where it belongs. In a Window.

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Quoting: SalvatosWell that's refreshing indeed - also Ubuntu has changed more than I knew since I last used it.

But the fact that it lets you opt out of data collection at first launch instead of asking you to opt in still doesn't feel right. It's not the Linux way, if I have any authority to say so myself.

Absolutely! That isn't the Linux way. But IMHO Canonical does a good job in explaining and documenting. The used Tools are open sourced, you get informed about it. 100% transparent. Only an Opt Out would be nice! A lot better then that what Microsoft does.

Then we also have (open)Suse which doesn't even mention that they are collection statistics. That it is all you get about it from opensuse: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Statistics [External Link]

IMHO I have no problem with selecting telemetrics to get a clear picture about what installation base we really have. So far we relying on some magically generated "web based" statistics. Which gave an estimated market share from 0,5% up to 4%

But I want to be informed about it, and I want an option which lets me Opt-In. I think in 18.04.1 they added an "agreement" page which you have to accept before data will be submitted. For more details see here: https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-report/#send-data-to-server [External Link] I think I kinda can live with that. Can't say for sure as it seems the report is not generated and sent on other Ubuntu Flavours (e.g. XFCE & Budgie) yet.

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Quoting: dodrianInstead, what I try and share with people about Linux is the freedom it offers - I'm in full control of what's on my computer, and it's never going to do anything like what the author mentions and force an update at an inconvenient time (and if for some reason any distro tries that, you can all but guarantee there will be a fork that doesn't within days).

Never say Never! I was shocked as I restarted Ubuntu 18.04 and it wanted to install "Unattended Updates" in Windowssytle. You know if you shutdown or reboot your Windows-PC, and Windows begins installing Updates. WTH?!?!

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades [External Link]
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/automatic-updates.html [External Link]

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Chronarius

Quoting: tuubiWhy would anyone gaming exclusively on Linux have collected a large wishlist of non-Linux games and had the filter set to show Windows games as well?

Maybe to show the developer there is a demand for a Linux port?

That didn't make sense before platform-specific wishlisting was announced, and in the announcement it was made very clear that you should set the store filter accordingly.

Well, then it is "Unspecified Platform" for me. I'm playing games on Linux and Windows, and I'm not switching around in the Store settings and search the game in the store everytime just to show there is demand for Linux.

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