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I use the eBook as an example, but really, this should absolutely apply to anything with a digital license -- games, books, music, videos/movies, etc.

The underlying issue here is that the free market and competition as USA shaped it promotes vertical integration. So eventually a single corporation gets to control the whole supply chain, or at least the profitable layers. In digital but also outside. You buy a book on Amazon, you can only access that IP you bought there (the license is amazon license). That is what competition laws push for.

To make a system where you "own" some IP access regardless of who gives you this access, you need to make a legislation that forbids vertical integration. So if you buy "Lord Of The Rings" on Amazon, you own it also on Bookshop or Kobo. Or a physical bookshop too (in that case you would pay the print costs not the intellectual property that you already own). License market separated from license access market. The owenrship of the book is one market, how you consume the book another market. But for this to work it requires to separate ownership of the license from the servive of providing you the content (which now would not be free but become a monthly fee service I guess). But again, who will store the ownership of the license for you? The state? Another service? Well, if I were the lawmaker, I would say that is the quintessential use case for blockchains, which could very well be state regulated and then p2p operated. But ofc this is the only use case for blockchains that nobody care about since it solves actual issues and it's not speculative in nature.

Anyway, even if today it would be very doable (and very welcomed since it would mean the end of exclusives as a business practice in gaming as in video, and the possibility to get your IP wherever you want), it would require a massive education and mobilization campaign of the consumers in EU and possibly it would mean that EU and USA part ways all together since it's completely incompatible with how people think in other side of the Atlantic. It will never happen.

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16 years? Nonsense! I can't have been more than a couple of years right? I'm not old enough for it to be 16 years, right? Right?

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Congrats!! This site is a daily visit for me and many. Keep up the posting.

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When you purchase a novel, it is understood that you don't own the intellectual property rights to the contents of the book but you do own the physical copy (or container, if you will). Yet, if you purchase the novel in eBook format (a digital container), the publisher/reseller, more and more often, treats it as a one-time subscription that they can revoke at any time without compensation to the customer. The rules governing the digital license should be no different than those regarding a physical book.

I can accept that author and/or publisher own the IP rights. If this initiative leads to regulating the publishing industry so that it can no longer treat a digital license as if it is merely a one-time subscription, then I feel it will have accomplished something good.

I use the eBook as an example, but really, this should absolutely apply to anything with a digital license -- games, books, music, videos/movies, etc.

I don't live in the EU but, like replaceable batteries and the "right to repair", this has my full support.

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I have been experimenting with the AppImage version of Heroic. I can't get it to recognize Mangohud, which I installed from the GitHub .deb installer. So far, I've only tested with native or AppImage games. Neither work (AppImage never has, no matter what launcher I use). Anybody else have this problem?

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Fixed the "Browse Local Files" option not working for non-Steam games.

OMG, it took them ~10 years but they finally fixed this?

I'm glad for every new feature, device, hotfix, etc and I know they have an insane backlog to work through, but wow! Huge complex stuff in under a week, 10 years for a seeming 5min fix... ValveTime™ indeed!

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Happy birthday!

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Happy birthday!!!! 🐧

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"restricted_countries DE"

https://steamdb.info/app/3557620

While I don't care about this game, I wonder what else I'm not seeing (summer sale).

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I've already had success with both Steam's and Lutris' runtimes to get finicky native games to run. I assume this is what you're alluding to ...

Yes exactly. Plus Steam itself ships the Steam Linux Runtimes 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 which also do bundle 32bit libraries in different versions which might be used by certain games. Sometimes you may need to switch the Linux runtimes to have any success in both flatpak or native Steam to get them working.

However there are some games which even by using all these wonderful runtimes (flatpak runtimes, steam runtimes) do not want to behave. Some of the older Feral Interactive Ports have all sorts of issues. More precisely the Feral launcher. While the game itself works fine the Launcher often times causes trouble and likes to core dump. But that is no difference if running said game natively or via flatpak.

As an example: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Tomb_Raider_(2013)#Launch_issues_on_Linux

Judging by my own experience and experiments I personally had more success to get old 32bit native Linux games running via flatpak than natively (as I still was running a distro which had 32bit support). Be it via Steam or Lutris to run my GOG games.

Concluding: Even on a Linux distribution still offering 32bit packages flatpak can be a game changer already.

Hence taking a step further and stripping old 32bit libs from the base OS isn't too far imho.

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This is one of two sites I visit basically daily! Thanks for doing this!

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I've made the full switch to Linux just a little over a month ago and already knew GamingOnLinux beforehand, but now it is my main Go To for everything, well, about Gaming on Linux :)

Directly decided to support you via Patreon since you're doing a great job!

Happy Birthday GamingOnLinux!

P.S.: I use Arch btw SCNR

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Awesom....and congrats! You're the greatest!

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Happy birthday!

It's all hand-crafted spelling errors and terrible grammar here.

Lately, I keep finding myself cherishing all small human mistakes I find. Like enjoying how a vinilo slightly dirties the sound

In any case, keep up the good work and all those handcrafted small errors!

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Happy Birthday GamingOnLinux

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Happy Birthday! Thank you very much for the service! I'm not writing often here, but i am reading the news every day :)

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good to see minor bugfixes and improvements....nvidia trolling us lol

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@g000h
Hey now, I'm not made of cake!

You can re-enjoy last years cake here:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/happy-birthday-to-gamingonlinux-15-years-old-today/

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This is a great project, I just really wish Protonup-Qt had all the features and proton versions this had, not really a fan of GTK theming.

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Keep up the great work! Donating when i can. Thanks!

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Excellent! A very happy birthday to you! Thanks for the memories and the hard work

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WOOOO!!! Party time for one of my favorite ever sites!! Love this community and love the attitude towards ai and keeping independent. Stay strong Liam! You got this :)

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Since MW is in my top10 of all time, it always makes me happy to see this project keep chugging along. It's like going home to your grandmothers house in the summer when I fire it up.

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Pornographic and nude content should have a warning. And young kids should not have access to it. The mechanics of enforcing that are debatable, sure.

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Happy birthday! Hopefully one day PayPal stops being such an unbearable chore for you and you 1) stop treating non-Patreon donators like scum and 2) stop suckling on the ad-based-revenue teat (which you swore to never do, way back when). I might be inclined to re-activate my monthly donations if that happens.

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Happy birthday GoL!

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Nostalgic when you look at early posts

Wait, it started as an April Fool's joke?!?!? :D
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2010/04/welcome-to-gamingonlinux/

I don't think I was reading GoL regularly back then (happypenguin.org was still a thing), but in those pre-Steam days, the Humble Indie Bundles were HUGE for Linux.

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@1xok blocked in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Vietnam, a few more regions. Check SteamDB

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Don't care if you are 16, you're still home for 9!

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Happy birthday!

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