What a mess this is turning out to be. First we had Wine devs considering dropping support and now Valve. At least in terms of Linux gaming, Steam and Wine are one of the more important and widely use programs. Not having support for them would be a huge blow to Canonical. Here's hoping they extract their head out of their ass soon and reconsider this move. Though, being so close to feature freeze for Ubuntu's next release, I'm not holding my breath.

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Quoting: Micromegas

Quoting: GuestSo, the list of candidate replacements are: Debian, Mint Debian Edition, Manjaro, Endeavour, Mageia and i forgot another one: Suse ? Many will jump ship and the Linux gaming landscape will be fragmented as ever ! :P

Fragmented? How so? With the Steam runtime the distribution you use doesn't matter as long as your distribution provides a suitable C runtime and graphics driver. And for GOG games you can just install missing libraries via your distribution repository if something is missing. I'm playing so called "Ubuntu compatible" games on Mageia since years now without any problems.

I think Dedale was referring to the possibility of the Linux community being fragmented further by creating a situation where you would have distros that don't have 32-bit libraries (Ubuntu, OpenMandriva) and distros that have them (Debian, Mageia, etc.). In such a situation, the ability of installing a suitable drivers and libraries, like you mentioned, would not apply to all distributions.

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Quoting: GuestSo, the list of candidate replacements are: Debian, Mint Debian Edition, Manjaro, Endeavour, Mageia and i forgot another one: Suse ? Many will jump ship and the Linux gaming landscape will be fragmented as ever ! :P

What about MX Linux? It's based on Debian and pretty straightforward to set up.

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Quoting: GuestAlan pope of Canonical tried a few GoG games on 64 bits only 19.10 and guess what ? It is not going well.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Trying-GOG-Games-64-bit-Ubuntu [External Link]

But at least they are thinking about it.

Would be better if they thought about this sooner, but it's something, I suppose.

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Okay, so worst case scenario: Ubuntu 19.10 ships and everything is broken. Up to this point, Ubuntu and some of its derivatives were the most newbie-friendly distros out there, but now that's out the window. January 14th 2020 is right around the corner, which is when support ends for Windows 7. We get a large influx of users wanting to switch to Linux. What distro do we recommend for the newcomers?

Arch is out of the question. Fedora's better, but I feel it's still a bit too advanced for beginners. Maybe Debian or something Debian-based like MX Linux?

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Quoting: EhvisThe youtube video is black for me. Even though it does show something in the preview. Weird.

Try this:

https://de.invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=N98epZMyoKM [External Link]

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Very excited for this! I'm starving for a worthy successor to Transport Tycoon (and by proxy OpenTTD), which is why I've been keeping an eye on this one for the last few months. Rise of Industry came very close, but because it takes a different approach altogether to business management sims, it didn't scratch that itch. Fingers crossed for Voxel Tycoon!

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After such debacles as Outer Wilds and Shenmue 3, I get the impression that helping crowdfund something will get you screwed over. Developers backtracking on their promises is one thing, but more importantly, Kickstarter has no mechanisms in place that would punish this kind of behaviour. If this is the level of trust we can expect, I would stay far away from Kickstarter and possibly crowdfunding in general until such issues are resolved.

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Quoting: EikeIt's great to watch some games continually being expanded. I wonder though if I now bought Terraria, if I wouldn't be overwhelmed by content (others got step by step)...

It depends on how you play the game, really. What I mean by that is that some people go in blind and have fun with whatever they find. If you decide to play Terraria like that, then chances are you will not get overwhelmed by virtue of not knowing the extent of the content.

Then there's the other way. You decide to play the game and want to get a very specific item, which is the way I play, incidentally. Getting a certain spell, armour, etc. might involve one step or several dozen. This can get very overwhelming, yes. This is why I frequent the Terraria wiki [External Link] (possible spoiler warning, btw). The site does a great job of letting you know exactly what you need to do to get something you want. I kinda wish it was integrated into the game, really.

Terraria is definitely worth getting. You may want to wait for the update to drop before starting a new game, because every big patch usually (but not always) requires generating a new world in order to get all the new features that come with a new update. That said, playing it now is by no means a bad idea, there's still loads of content that makes the game fun.

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The sheer amount of content in Terraria is absolutely insane. You have magic, yo-yos, pets, mounts, summons, bosses out the wazoo, special events (some of which only occur on certain dates) and that's BEFORE entering Hardmode. After that, you get much much more. All of this for only 10€ is almost robbery. I await the next update with great anticipation!

Just a heads-up: You may have to do some fiddling to get it to run, because of an old bug in Mono. The problem for me was the TERM environment variable, which was set to "xterm-256color" and Mono does not like that because of reasons. For those interested, to get the GOG version to run, you have to set the TERM environment variable to "xterm" before running the game, like so:

TERM=xterm ./start.sh

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