Quoting: dziadulewiczThis is very late and should already be hurried IMO. To put all possible resources to get Wayland's going fine on Linux Mint. Until it works, Linux Mint is certainly not an alternative to much more modern Ubuntu ecosystem by default..

They are an Ubuntu derivate, Cinnamon is a Gnome derivate, and Muffin is a Mutter derivate.

They waited for upstream to do enough work for things to look like they're working there.

Then recently they did a big Muffin rebase over a fresh version of Mutter, which captured most of the wayland work done there by Gnome devs (and severely reduced the amount of custom things done in Muffin differently from Mutter, making it easier to do new rebasing moves).

And then this announcement shows they got to work on Cinnamon.

And a comment on the announcement from a user says only a few X-apps need extra work making them run as expected u der wayland... like just four of them... the restis probably running over Xwayland, but if they do run fine that way that's enough to be a non-issue for their i initialmigration effort.

Then Clem replied noting that a lot of work left to do is on taskbar, menu, control panel, etc, which makes sense.

Anyway, as long as Ubuntu and Debian don't suddenly remove x.org from repos then Mint should be fine, but I agree this is high priority and have commented on their new article to that effect.

Ubuntu's modernity doesn't mean much for usual Mint users. Unless being on X.org becomes a tangible issue they'll wait around until the work is done and migration happens without pain, which is Mint's way of doing things.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI wonder how they will implement screen capture permissions. Every compositor seems to do it differently. I like GNOME's implementation the most; loudly indicating when the screen is being captured in the top right.

this might prove useful:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/xwayland-video-bridge-created-to-improve-linux-screen-sharing/

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: XpanderLooks like fix is in progress. So it was a mistake

https://trello.com/b/ZVrHV38P/apex-tracker [External Link]

The good news is they care enough to fix it

The bad news is they don't care enough to test before releasing

Ergo: this is going to happen again

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Jmsnz

Quoting: BlackBloodRumBut then, we're talking about Apple here, who intentionally killed the majority of MacOS native Steam games on their OS (they won't run on the latest OSX due to Apple's changes).

It’s been almost 5 years since 32bit support was axed. It’s not exactly a recent development.

2023 somehow marks when there are zero supported options (though still and forever possible via VM)... but I didn't get how it was possible beyond VMs until now.

Gaming is a special case in software development, because it's very frequently "done" when released, not something the devs will go back to again and again to work on features, improvements, refactoring, etc.

It's also a special case because games are irreplaceable. eg: as much as I love Two Point Hospital it does not superseed Theme Hospital, it's just another game in the same genre. There is always going to be a demand to run the original Theme Hospital game.

Those things go directly against Apple's choice weapon to coax app devs into keeping their shit together, which is their usual "update your app or it will be cut from the store". It works for apps with active devs, and those who don't have them will end up being replaced by those equivalents that do... except games usually don't.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: whizseYou can still download it directly from Blizzard. But you need Battle.net (an account and the software).

I don't think it was offered in any other form, even back in 2017?

i recall it initially was a direct link, no login at all, but may be misremembering

the broken links in the news websites hint at the same

the patch from previous versions to this was certainly available as a direct .exe download without login to battlenet or using their launcher

an echo of more generous blizzard times, with less user data gathering shenanigans and no launchers

View this comment - View article - View full comments

[quote=Purple Library Guy]

Quoting: MarlockI read that last article. Then I tried the links in the article that seemed to be for actually downloading Starcraft. I got a Blizzard page saying 404 not found. Hopefully they've just shifted around where it's offered.

ActiBliz obviously broke the links but the news probably means it's legal to grab a copy of that version elsewhere (eg: torrents and Archive.org)... though your local legislation may vary

the last classic intead of remastered, first with no cdcheck, and released legally for free is version 1.18

https://archive.org/details/StarCraftBattleChest [External Link]
this probably needs to be patched to 1.18 (in which Blizzard even removed the original CD detection annoyance from previous versions) to be played directly but should work with stratagus directly

not sure remastered can be user for stratagus nowadays... I just know it used to be a problem years ago when I last looked at it

also iirc SC1 is/was available for purchase on GOG (but probably the remaster too)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: ElectricPrismYou would think that with how religious South Korea is over BroodWar that they would have reverse-engineered the game by now into new source code.

https://github.com/Wargus/stratagus [External Link]
+
https://github.com/Wargus/stargus [External Link]
+
https://www.techradar.com/news/starcraft-the-original-that-is-is-now-completely-free [External Link]

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: ThibugI know, because they were losing a lot of money. Yet they continue to use exclusivity deals (That cost them money) to get games on their store, so if they continue at the same rate, it will be back in the news at some point...

I couldn't help but remember Order of the Stick's Episode 135 "Potionomics"
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0135.html [External Link]

I've only read it once years ago yet I vividly remembered it and found the correct episode in seconds... i guess one story matches the other quite closely, lol

View this comment - View article - View full comments

hint: because DOS was the kernel for them and they were just a shell, win 3.11 and win95 work fine over DOSBox

no need for suffering with ancient hardware and ancient OSs if you're doing it just to game

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Gotta love the irony in "DRM free games in the Vault [that you can only get] via their Windows app"

View this comment - View article - View full comments