I can't say I have a stake in this, but it's interesting to ponder that Ubuntu seems to have a habit of betting on the wrong horse, Mir and upstart, for example.

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I started playing through the demo of the first game, and it's quite fun. A little bit of a mix between a visual novel and adventure game.

(Read only memories, and leave only timestamps!)

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Quoting: Craggles086Does this make Civilization one of the longest running games franchise?

Elite predated Civilization by a few years, but Elite Dangerous bears little resemblance to the original Elite, whereas Civilization is technically the same game.

Wikipedia got a list of the longest-running video game franchises, because of course it does!

Both Civ and Elite are on it, but maybe not where you expected them to be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_video_game_franchises

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Quoting: StalePopcornHa! Our family got our first microwave mid 80's too!

...and you could finally make fresh popcorn!

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Quoting: CatKillerThe Darkside Detective games are excellent, and play really well on the Deck.

I was quite tempted by these. But sadly not included in the sale.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnyone have any idea what those

QuoteOptional Splitlock changes to help gaming

do?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Splitlock-Hurts-Gaming

Some more info on splitlocks here: https://lwn.net/Articles/790464/

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Quoting: LembrittI want to upgrade to 1 TB. But have not seen any in my region (Sweden) that don't cost you an arm and a leg.
If you have any tips, please let me know.

I guess wait and see if they turn up in the EU storefront. They seem to have much (all?) of the other Deck bits.

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Quoting: damarrin

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs is just me, or does the phrase

Quoteloading throbber

sound kind of rude?

It doesn't sound rude, it sounds enticing.

Are we due some Steam client rule 34?

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Quoting: StalePopcornProtonDB posters are stating that it runs better in Linux than it does on their Winduhz installs

I hear you look better playing it on Linux too!

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Quoting: Avehicle7887

QuoteIndeo IV50 codec support.

Hmmm, I wonder which old games use this.

Quite a few oldies. Note that this is specifically for games using the ir50_32.dll. Wine already had some support for the Indeo codec through quartz/DirectShow.

AS for specific games, off the top of my head, Kings Quest 8 needed this dll. Interestingly Microsoft have disabled this dll in later releases so those games are broken in their native environment but will work in Wine...

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