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News - Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
By Mal, 6 Jul 2025 at 8:27 pm UTC
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.
By Mal, 6 Jul 2025 at 8:27 pm UTC
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.
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By Ehvis, 6 Jul 2025 at 7:55 pm UTC
By Ehvis, 6 Jul 2025 at 7:55 pm UTC
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?
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By chickenb00, 6 Jul 2025 at 6:28 pm UTC
By chickenb00, 6 Jul 2025 at 6:28 pm UTC
Congrats!! This site is a daily visit for me and many. Keep up the posting.
News - Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
By Caldathras, 6 Jul 2025 at 5:48 pm UTC
By Caldathras, 6 Jul 2025 at 5:48 pm UTC
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.
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.
Guide - How to play games from GOG and Epic Games on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck
By Caldathras, 6 Jul 2025 at 5:14 pm UTC
By Caldathras, 6 Jul 2025 at 5:14 pm UTC
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?
News - Small SteamOS update for Legion Go S, and faster Steam startup time if you have lots on non-Steam games
By Marlock, 6 Jul 2025 at 3:00 pm UTC
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!
By Marlock, 6 Jul 2025 at 3:00 pm UTC
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!
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By tfk, 6 Jul 2025 at 2:14 pm UTC
By tfk, 6 Jul 2025 at 2:14 pm UTC
Happy birthday! 

News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By Minux, 6 Jul 2025 at 1:50 pm UTC
By Minux, 6 Jul 2025 at 1:50 pm UTC
Happy birthday!!!!
🐧

News - Blue Archive from NEXON arrives on Steam and works on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck
By 1xok, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:44 pm UTC
By 1xok, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:44 pm UTC
"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).
https://steamdb.info/app/3557620
While I don't care about this game, I wonder what else I'm not seeing (summer sale).
News - Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawn
By Vortex_Acherontic, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:39 pm UTC
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.
By Vortex_Acherontic, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:39 pm UTC
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.
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By Katie1701, 6 Jul 2025 at 10:50 am UTC
By Katie1701, 6 Jul 2025 at 10:50 am UTC
This is one of two sites I visit basically daily! Thanks for doing this!
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By Felensis, 6 Jul 2025 at 9:38 am UTC
By Felensis, 6 Jul 2025 at 9:38 am UTC
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
Directly decided to support you via Patreon since you're doing a great job!
Happy Birthday GamingOnLinux!

P.S.: I use Arch btw

News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By SkullVonBones, 6 Jul 2025 at 9:38 am UTC
By SkullVonBones, 6 Jul 2025 at 9:38 am UTC
Awesom....and congrats! You're the greatest!
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By elgatil, 6 Jul 2025 at 9:22 am UTC
By elgatil, 6 Jul 2025 at 9:22 am UTC
Happy birthday!
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!
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!
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By ced117, 6 Jul 2025 at 8:51 am UTC
By ced117, 6 Jul 2025 at 8:51 am UTC
Happy Birthday GamingOnLinux 

News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By thewho, 6 Jul 2025 at 8:46 am UTC
By thewho, 6 Jul 2025 at 8:46 am UTC
Happy Birthday! Thank you very much for the service! I'm not writing often here, but i am reading the news every day :)
News - NVIDIA stable driver 575.64.03 released
By Xpander, 6 Jul 2025 at 7:52 am UTC
By Xpander, 6 Jul 2025 at 7:52 am UTC
good to see minor bugfixes and improvements....nvidia trolling us lol
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By dpanter, 6 Jul 2025 at 7:23 am UTC
By dpanter, 6 Jul 2025 at 7:23 am UTC
@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/
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/
News - ProtonPlus makes managing Proton versions on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck simple
By WMan22, 6 Jul 2025 at 4:17 am UTC
By WMan22, 6 Jul 2025 at 4:17 am UTC
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.
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By pageround, 6 Jul 2025 at 3:59 am UTC
By pageround, 6 Jul 2025 at 3:59 am UTC
Keep up the great work! Donating when i can. Thanks!
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By mi1stormilst, 6 Jul 2025 at 3:23 am UTC
By mi1stormilst, 6 Jul 2025 at 3:23 am UTC
Excellent! A very happy birthday to you! Thanks for the memories and the hard work 

News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By R Daneel Olivaw, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:33 am UTC
By R Daneel Olivaw, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:33 am UTC
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 :)
News - OpenMW 0.49 arrives to enhanced Morrowind and they're looking to support later Bethesda games
By R Daneel Olivaw, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:29 am UTC
By R Daneel Olivaw, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:29 am UTC
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.
News - Nexus Mods to get Age Verification in UK / EU for adult content, plus a new cross-platform app upgrade
By 14, 5 Jul 2025 at 11:08 pm UTC
By 14, 5 Jul 2025 at 11:08 pm UTC
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.
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By WorMzy, 5 Jul 2025 at 11:07 pm UTC
By WorMzy, 5 Jul 2025 at 11:07 pm UTC
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. 

News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By seamoose, 5 Jul 2025 at 10:08 pm UTC
By seamoose, 5 Jul 2025 at 10:08 pm UTC
Happy birthday GoL!
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By Phlebiac, 5 Jul 2025 at 9:41 pm UTC
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.
By Phlebiac, 5 Jul 2025 at 9:41 pm UTC
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.
News - Blue Archive from NEXON arrives on Steam and works on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck
By mr-victory, 5 Jul 2025 at 8:54 pm UTC
By mr-victory, 5 Jul 2025 at 8:54 pm UTC
@1xok blocked in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Vietnam, a few more regions. Check SteamDB
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By pete910, 5 Jul 2025 at 8:28 pm UTC
By pete910, 5 Jul 2025 at 8:28 pm UTC
Don't care if you are 16, you're still home for 9!
News - Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
By walther von stolzing, 5 Jul 2025 at 7:24 pm UTC
By walther von stolzing, 5 Jul 2025 at 7:24 pm UTC
Happy birthday!
- ProtonPlus makes managing Proton versions on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck simple
- Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
- Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawn
- SteamOS 3.7.13 update gets fixes for more handhelds, fixes WiFi regression on Steam Deck OLED
- GE-Proton 10-7 out now with fixes for Wuthering Waves, Anno 1800, Wine Wayland
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