Quoting: CreakIt used to be a bold offer, proposing independent games and, in exchange, you'd give to the devs and to charities. And for the very first bundles some games would even go open source if they were to reach a certain amount

I think this was the problem. Playing a little devil's advocate here, but let's really think about it. Was this ever a sustainable business model? Helping devs port to linux? Convincing them to open thier code? Letting us not pay them for it?

Look at Steam. People here love them for the Linux support and literally throw money at them. Yet, they can't even do those things that Humble did and we all believe they are very well off financially.

I really think, as nice as it was, it was never going to last. It simply couldn't compete as a store against Steam and GOG, even with the charity and Linux support gimmicks.

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Quoting: dpanterWow they used Micro Mages (NES) in the trailer, an awesome game released in 2019!

Wow, seems like it was only yesterday...

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QuoteMore Plug & Play driver support.

Is also very nice.

Also, this is literally the highlight of my day :

QuotePlease email all complaints to [email protected]

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So ummm, I saw this on the front page of steam and immediately thought "what nut job would want that!?!"

Now I know. J/k.

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Quoting: GuestOf course, having it sprayed around multiple data gatherers/resellers means that the companies wanting to get full profiles will need to buy data from multiple sources, making their work harder.

Actually, no, not exactly. What has happened is middle men companies that do that for you have taken over that part. So, in reality, it's actually easier for the end company. They just call up IBM or Lexis Nexus or someone else and get all the data they want, sometimes in already the format your need.

You might think it's more expensive since the middle company needs to make money, but not always. Sometimes they take data as payment, so it's free or discounted. Basically trading data.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYou know Linux has finally made it to mainstream desktop usage when we get ports of Skiing games. Do we have Tennis?

Think that's coming right after the other fancy sports games, like Polo ( that's the one with the horses right?) and golf!

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Quoting: Nanobang

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Quoting: NanobangThis got me thinking about how much I'd like to read an article about what's it like to try and game on some of the less popular stalwarts of Linux. I'm talking about distros such as Mageia & Open Mandriva, Mepis, PCLinuxOS,AntiX & Tiny Core, Gentoo & Knoppix, or even Elive. (I'd try it out, but my slow internet would guarantee the whole project would take way, way too long.)

Not sure if it counts, but I ran Sparky Linux for about 4 years on my gaming machine. It's debian testing based.

I don't think there is much difference when the OS is based on another distro upstream. After all the upstream is mostly the same. Most of the issues I had were minor, quality of life, type issues. Presumably due to a smaller dev team, testing base, etc. Everything worked fine. But when something broke, you were a little more on your own.

Hope that helps

It's certainly the kind of thing I'd like to hear more about. I think we all could benefit by listening to each other's tales of woe and wonder gaming on obscure or niche distros such as Sparky. For example, I just hopped over to distrowatch.com to read up on Sparky. The review I found did not make Sparky sound good, but then you gamed on it for 4 years, so clearly there was something about it that kept you using it.

Thanks for your comment. I might reach out in the future if I decide to write such an article.

Peace :)

Thank you for the kind comment. I'd be more than happy to help out in the future.

Quoting: slaapliedjehave never understood why people use Fedora on anything that they wish to remain stable. It always seems to break mid-cycle for me, and in terribly fun ways that require a re-install.

I've always held the impression that Fedora was rather stable. It's on my bucket list of OS's to try.

To be fair, I think every major distro runs into it's issues. I like my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but I've learned to never upgrade the kernel if it's first in a new series unless I want to live in the command line for a few days waiting for the graphics drivers to get a new update.

PS, I think this is literally the most polite "distro war" conversation I've ever seen. It's so nice to be here sometimes.

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This sounds interesting. Im a bit of a sucker for these smaller base builders

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Yeah, I just found that setting for flight. I think that will help a lot. I think part of my gripe with flight is that, for the most part, I've only ever used a joystick with all other flight games I've played. So I'm very not used to mouse based flight. That's not the games fault though.

It's a very cute game, though. And it does make me want to explore more. I can see how it would be a ton of fun with a few friends or family members

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Been trying No Man's Sky via proton. Seems to run just fine. Aside from the main plot missions, I'm not sure how much I'm in to it. Everything seems cumbersome, from the building, to the exploring, to the foot and space combat.

I think it's made with a controller in mind, maybe I'll try it with a steam controller and see if that helps.

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