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"With a release every six months plus LMDE, we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing"

Well at least you're spending enough time on testing and fixing, unlike some other people working on some other OS..

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Thank you for your response.

Quoting: HamishDo you learn French in schools in Canada?
It varies based on which province you are in, but not as a general rule no, although it is often offered. The irony of my household is that the only person who has a working understanding of French is my father, who was born and raised in New Zealand.

That's interesting.
I thought French was more popular in Canada because many native French-speaking people live there.

Quoting: HamishMy understanding is that the Linux version was only ever available through mail order from them directly or through a few select vendors, which is part of the reason it is so difficult to find on the second hand market.

The list of vendors for the Linux version of Hopkins FBI was long, but I don't know the exact situation with this game. The Linux version was much shorter because the 3D levels similar to Doom aren't part of this game.

Quoting: HamishSame with Abuse and Inner Worlds.

You are probably right because it's hard to find information about the Linux version of Abuse.

I don't understand the situation with Inner Worlds because people played this game in the 90's, and the Linux version should be on the CD. I don't have it, and I only saw a version without the Linux binaries on one of the auctions.

Maybe you should contact Sleepless and ask about the Linux version of Inner Worlds. I don't think they have a CD, but maybe they could help you obtain the archive for your article. I didn't ask them about it.

That Freeware go-kart game was available on a CD with source code, but I didn't find any information about it on archive.org

Can you share your opinion on the license for LinCycles for Linux?

The README file mentions payments and the availability of the source code for an old version. I'm not sure if it was a commercial title that was re-released as freeware because one of the comments from an author is odd.

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As cool as it is to have a new class the QoL features are an even bigger deal for me. Having a grail tracker built is A+++ No more having to maintain a spreadsheet, forgetting to update it and then having to go through so many plugy stash tabs to reconcile.

That being said, having infinite stash tabs a la plugy is another massively needed feature. Being able to track grail progress but not being able to keep every item is incongruent.

Thank god they added a loot filter too. I haven't looked into it but I hope it's quite granular and the settings are exportable so I can do things like filter out white items but keep things like monarchs. Even better would be even more granular settings where I can filter out crystal swords unless they are specific ilvls to ensure they will roll 4os from Larzuk but that's just a pipe dream.

I'm very curious to see what the Warlock sprites look like in the old renderer.

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Quoting: gbudnyDo you learn French in schools in Canada?

It varies based on which province you are in, but not as a general rule no, although it is often offered. The irony of my household is that the only person who has a working understanding of French is my father, who was born and raised in New Zealand.

Quoting: gbudnyI don't know it. I think MP Entertainment released Hopkins FBI for Linux in April 1999. I'm not sure if it was available in stores like Walmart in the U.S. Maybe some Americans remember it.

My understanding is that the Linux version was only ever available through mail order from them directly or through a few select vendors, which is part of the reason it is so difficult to find on the second hand market.

Same with Abuse and Inner Worlds.

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Quoting: SalvatosMy God that's a lot of physical games.

I played The Magic of Inventorying with some friends a while back (got it in an earlier mega-bundle). It's good fun.

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Went back and finished it after all. Changing the wheels out for tracks, and then robot legs, added a lot of stability, but it still wasn't enough to stop tossing things out the side here and there, making the 10 minute trip from the last depot into almost twice that, gingerly navigating every little fold in the landscape.

It didn't get any more fun, but at least I now have a nice new spacesuit set for regular playthroughs.

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Oh ha! Long Dark is back! Nice, I bought in on GOG back then, then they pulled it and I was left with not bugfixes / updates. Glad it is back.

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Even if you don't care about all the 1400+ games in the bundle... buying it just for the fantastic game Baba is You is still a 33% discount 😃

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You're laughing now, just wait until they re-re-release the same game again as Overwatch II. 🍌🍌

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Hopefully this does not stall the momentum of Linux on gaming devices. Proton and Steam Deck were driving adoption. Every deck sold was a potential new Linux user. We need more users, to demand more support from studios.

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Actually, for offline play, you do not want steam cloud. That would mess up everything.

(copying chars off, so you can duplicate things (runes mostly) etc. for science)

Any online chars of course are avail on any platform, as long as it's the same
bnet acct.

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I definitely must have this in my ever expanding steam library!

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Double agree. Also wish pop would do the same.

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Quoting: GustyGhostHonestly, they should just mainline LMDE and drop the Ubuntu derived version. Mint team spend way too much time correcting for Ubuntu's interesting choices.

Agreed. Having LMDE as their main version would be wonderful, especially if it came with all Mint flavors: Cinnamon, Xfce and MATE. Sure, we can always install any desktop environment on top of a fresh install of LMDE or any distro, but it would be much more polished if it came with the Debian base + Mint goodies + your DE of choice right at the start.

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Great game! But with that price, and in this economy, it goes from "day-one purchase" to "I'll wait for a huge discount". The lack of Steam Cloud support is also a big offender. At least now it will be much hassle-free to run the game on the Steam Deck / Linux desktop, since it doesn't need the Battle.net client (which always ends up breaking after some random update).

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sigh.

I've got 2 copies of Diablo, Diablo 2, LOD.
Now I've got 2 of D2R.

Getting the expansion via Bnet was stuck, so when I saw it on steam,
I grabbed it. Install etc, no problem.
No more fighting with the Blizz launcher and proton.

Worth it to me.

Now, Warlock class. COOL!!! (played Warlock in WoW since the start)

sorted stash etc, nice, but max of 99 in a stack. Once the stack is full,
you have to manually move the item to regular storage. (no control click)
I had a LOT of full rejuvs from my current run, so..... heh.

The always online, or check in IS annoying, but, if you launch anything via the Bnet launcher,
it's gonna do that anyway. (so is steam) We're stuck with it.
(ok, I could reinstall D2:LOD via disk.... heh)

and 40 bucks ain't bad. (darn near 40gb dl)

oh, almost forgot. Achievements. LOL! *ding* "you killed 500 monsters" me: umm. did that 25 years ago!

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There is a goldmine of RAM sitting around in e-waste. Who is good with BGA soldering?

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Honestly, they should just mainline LMDE and drop the Ubuntu derived version. Mint team spend way too much time correcting for Ubuntu's interesting choices.

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This is good news! Especially for those who are using Cinnamon.

A bit of story and context: the PC of some of my relatives are on Mint Cinnamon and that DE is rougher than usual in this release cycle (Mint 22 series, which is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). Several times they couldn't put their computer to sleep / suspend (the option wasn't there) and had to call me to help them. That bug got fixed on 22.3 (their latest point release), but then another one showed up: the Shutdown button sometimes doesn’t respond – they click on it and nothing happens (thankfully, this one is much more rare).

In the end, both of those cases could be solved via terminal, but for people that are not tech-savvy (most of Mint's target audience) issues like that are show stoppers. I'm a Mint user too, but I'm on Xfce and haven't faced these bugs, so it's clear those are Cinnamon issues.

And to be fair, it's been a while since many Mint new features are purely aesthetic (how many times they have tweaked their theme in the last three years, for instance?), which to me felt more like they were doing for the sake of doing it; just to show others they are busy. This new slower approach is coming for the best, I believe, and will surely bring more solid and battle-tested changes.

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Absolutely based.

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Both the expansion and bundle should be $5 USD less. I added the expansion to my Battle.net wishlist and I'm waiting for it to go on sale. Otherwise I'd just get it on Steam like I did with Diablo IV. It's too bad that they don't just give us Steam keys for our past Battle.net purchases though. They'd make it back in good PR.

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Quoting: williamjcmFlatpak *can* be used from the terminal, though. GUI frontends are completely optional.

Yep, know all about it. I run MobileSheets Companion as a flatpak because the author only offers it that way. I prefer installing "raw" on my system but will use flatpak too. Ain't no thang.

I prefer the terminal because I like it there. I don't have any objections to folks who use GUI launchers. Just because I like apples doesn't mean you can't like oranges. :)

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That price is hilarious.

I mean at first glance I would be hard pressed to tell if this is a joke listing or not ...? Or someone accidentally hit a 0 before posting ...? LOL just absolutely insane otherwise.

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When I thought bundle, I did not expect over 1000 games. Had to double check that I didn't scroll to a game recommendation section.

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Quoting: Jarmer$40 ... !!! 😂

$49 in Poland 😤

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Gothic is very much the opposite of the design and ideals of something like Morrowind and especially Skyrim etc. In Bethesda games the world is your oyster, it revolves around you and grants you a power fantasy of your choosing. If you happen to choose all of them - enjoy all of them. Not so much the case with "pay for protection or enjoy a tasty knuckle sandwich" Gothic 1 or "get a job and become a respectable member of the community you're trying to embed yourself in" Gothic 2. Bethesda is very The Capitalist West. Piranha was closer to Working Class Reality Check.

Another point: these games seemed slightly archaic in some ways already back when they were released. Having played them again recently they pretty much haven't aged whatsoever. You still need to get used to all the things you'd have needed to get accustomed to back in the day anyway.

I also recommend reading up on the fine art inspirations behind the original Gothic's looks and playing that version as well. It's not just low fidelity resulting purely from technical limitations, it's a style. Nothing left of it in the remake, unfortunately.

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My God that's a lot of physical games.

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Looks like the ICE is melting there. I'm glad that there's charity bundles like this. While charity doesn't fix the inherent problems of our bourgeois society, at least it's something and can also spread awareness.

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ICE must be melted and evaporated!

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Quoting: syylk

Quoting: LampHope that this accellerates their decision to drop the x86 arcitecture for handheld compute and go all in on ARM

Isn't the CPU that's the bottleneck.

It's RAM, storage and GPU.

ARM processors still need good old main memory.

You are correct, and I realise I didnt finish my train of thought, that is the cost savings in going over to arm, smaller device etc, can be used to dampen the effect, even just a little, on the sum price with the more expensive memory for the standard sku with a x86 apu with memory and such.

But that is just an arm chair thought, I'm not to well versed in component prices in these devices, there might not be any cost savings at all with the higher end snapdragon cpu's from qualcom.

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