Some fun news here. ZOOM Platform, a games store that offers DRM-free games both new and old (as well as helping update some older games) now offers a special tool for Linux gamers to run Windows games with Proton.
This new tool called zoom-platform.sh was built to include "safety checks, handling updates, installing DLCs, creating desktop entries, a simple uninstaller" and more. It's based on top of the new Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) that recently had a first release, along with protonfixes to ensure everything works as well as possible.
How many games from ZOOM Platform will work with this new tool? They said "We tested our most popular games, and we submitted our own fixes for many of them; some work out of the box, and some may not work at all." - so pretty normal stuff for running Windows games on Linux with Wine / Proton.
ZOOM Platform do offer actual Native Linux games too, but this gives you the best of both worlds. They also recently celebrated their 10th anniversary of the ZOOM Platform.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Last edited by Cyril on 8 October 2024 at 5:42 pm UTC
https://www.zoom-platform.com/product/larry-lotter-and-the-test-of-time
ContainerRunner Oct 8
Quoting: elmapulnever heard of it, is this website legit? it has some... suspicious titles...
https://www.zoom-platform.com/product/larry-lotter-and-the-test-of-time
A little search shows that this game is even on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/551840/Crystal_Shard_Adventure_Bundle/
Maybe the title is too small to get sued and then it's between the game publisher and the copyright owner and not the store.
Last edited by ContainerRunner on 8 October 2024 at 8:47 pm UTC
pleasereadthemanual Oct 8
Quoting: amataiThat does not seem safe at all.Wait until you see rustup does the exact same thing: https://rustup.rs
I would trust rustup far more though.
Quoting: ContainerRunnerCorrect me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know Flatpaks are used for GUI applications.Sure, they generally are! But you can use them for CLI tools just the same so long as they don't need privileged access to certain things some CLI system admin tools expect. In the end it's really just a long-lived container, after all.
Quoting: ContainerRunnerAlthough I have seen projects like Sunshine (Remote Game streaming) use it too, but that project distributes it only over GitHub released .flatpakref files and seems to be an exception.I created a Flatpak for my own Python download script and for a CLI news feed reader, and there's one for the MakeMKV CLI tool, and there's one for Neovim on Flathub, so there's plenty out there!
Flathub hides most CLI tools from its interface so you need to download/search them via the flatpak CLI tool.
Quoting: CyrilThis is great. Now GOG when? If ZOOM can do it, I'm sure you can too!
Gog? Linux? Let's check their interest level in such a thing:
- Galaxy 1 launches - community wishlist post for linux support gets thousands of votes. Never happens.
- Galaxy 2 launches - community wishlist post for linux support gets thousands of votes. Never happens.
- Galaxy 3 hasn't even launched yet but - community wishlist post for linux support gets thousands of votes.
They have zero interest in us.
BlackBloodRum Oct 10
They've been around for 10 years and we've never heard of them.
Maybe because they're the other, OTHER, Zoom.
I'm very interested; it is great to have another Linux-friendly platform!
....that will probably be the successor to GOG.
Quoting: blindcoderI have never heard of this platform before. Sounds like GOG, when it was still "Good Old Games".
I'll have a look, thanks!
Quoting: BigRob029Same.
They've been around for 10 years and we've never heard of them.
Maybe because they're the other, OTHER, Zoom.
I'm very interested; it is great to have another Linux-friendly platform!
....that will probably be the successor to GOG.
Quoting: blindcoderI have never heard of this platform before. Sounds like GOG, when it was still "Good Old Games".
I'll have a look, thanks!
The Other Zoom doesn't exist, we don't talk about it...
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