The name is rather unfortunate if you understand German. :whistle:

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The official name changes (ignoring Debian specific issues) are interesting:

First phoenix. I think the name was chosen because it was a light and fast rebirth of Netscape Navigator. The name had to be discontinued because the phoenix BIOS had the name protected for an in-BIOS browser.

Then came Firebird/Thunderbird – keeping phoenix/bird of fire theme for the browser. It seems that Firebird SQL was the issue that time. So the bird had to become a fox.

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The Sims™ Legacy Collection: https://steamdb.info/depot/3314061/ [External Link]
Size on disk: 3.41 GiB
Compressed size: 1.68 GiB(50.58% saving)

Does not seem that crazy to me.

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The game does not look like it should have cost that much money. I wonder how they operate…

They had to expect the other failure as well. A developer that is famous for several single player games where you play a certain famous character suddenly making a GaaS game where you kill that character. That sounds like a guarantee for success.

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Some things that I consider important:

During the last years, GOG has done nothing for Linux users. I'm not sure when linuxvangog left, but since then there has been nothing positive. Yes, there are some games where the native Linux version is not missing and even a hidden addition of a previously missing Linux version, but that's it.

GOG has nothing to do with Heroic launcher or other community developed workarounds, so they don't deserve praise for it.

And – last time I checked – the Steam flatpak was community made as well. It does not make sense blaming Valve for issues that are only present if a program is run in a way it is not supposed to be used. That's like saying my car is getting worse and worse because the manufacturer is bad and then revealing that you put nails through the tires. I've had issues with the Steam client as well – e.g. the right click only works when alt is pressed bug on my desktop system and the weird parsing of desktop files.

There are things that GOG does better and there are things that Valve does better.

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They provide keys. You can optionally link your Steam account on Fanatical, but I don't know what that does, since I've never done that.

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Not a fan of the Dreamlist. Like anything else they do these days, it's too zoomed in to be usable.

I was hoping for Mega Man on GOG…

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For those interested in the specifics, there is a video of a presentation at the Linux Plumbers Conference.

This new approach should emulate the correct behaviour and therefore is supposed to be able to become a part of wine. The previous attempts (esync/fsync) do not emulate the correct behaviour in two (?) situations.

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No, this will not do anything useful (it only creates a device in /dev) without a modified version of wine – either as part of mainline wine or Proton. I haven't seen anything official on that front. There is a series of patches in a separate git repository by the author of the kernel patches that is (optionally) used by e.g. wine-tkg.

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I think you did miss the most unstable SteamOS channel that is (probably) only visible in dev mode. The channel names are a confusing mess in the German version, so I'm not sure what it is named.

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The most unstable version of SteamOS seems to be at Kernel 6.8 and when you consider the fact that Proton already has the alternatives patched in, there seems to be some misunderstanding – it should make non-SteamOS users that play games on Linux happy.

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