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Since there’s no license file, it defaults to all rights reserved, which means full files can’t be redistributed.

I’m not a lawyer, but I would argue this actually means that even people who get it from Gumroad can’t use it “legally”. There should be a license which expresses your intent.

Most likely your software will work via bottles or wine

No, for the examples above it will not. Quite a lot of professional software will not run under wine (and a lot of hobbyists use professional software) - games work particularly well because they mostly do their own thing and depend less on Windows-specific APIs. And if you use a VM via Winboat then you’re just using Windows in the background, which is a workaround, but kinda defeats OP’s argument that there’s “no difference”.

To be clear: I’m daily driving Linux and I’ve not booted into Windows for more than a year. But it’s just wrong to say that they are on par with each other for a lot of usecases.

I thought I was going to pass on it, but now I’m kinda hyped to replace one of my aging xbox controllers with this one.

so they would have to write and support a completely new userfacing application that would have to run on 3 different OSes and inject into games upon launch. a bit too much effort considering 99% of the audience will use it with Steam.

The project is closed‑source

It’s not though. It may not be FOSS, and by omitting a license you do keep the copyright by default, but it’s definitely not closed source either, it’s “source available”. Unless I’m missing the joke?

that leaves browsers,

That leaves audio production (with a bunch of Windows-only plugins), video production, photo editing, CAD…

Sure, you can re-learn your entire stack and get by, but that’s a far shot from “ridiculously little difference”. Dropping familiar complex piece of software like Ableton is a hard sell for folks (and it’s OK).

Played the demo and liked it, but way too many games in my backlog at the moment, so will pick it up later at some point

By remaking those games they could indruduce the game to whole new audience who would never play the yanky outdated versions.

This is where we disagree.

1. I don’t think we should try to re-introduce those games to new audiences - they can seek them out if they are interested. I haven’t played Planescape Torment until 2017, I haven’t played Gothic/Deus Ex/Thief games until 2020s. I liked them just fine having never played them in my childhood, I thought they were great. But by remaking influential hits of the past we water them down to “just another mediocre remake that released this year”.
2. A remake by definition will not do anything new, and if we spend resources on remakes (and sequels) then we are robbing the current generation from having their own formative experiences. I want to see new IPs come out that try new and different things and move the medium forward. So far indie games are doing a great job with that, but I also want AAA games to not get stuck in regurgitating the same material year after year. What is this generation’s Half-Life, Roblox?

Most gamers now will never experience that story and those who do, will not get the same experience i got, because they will look everything in the game as a product of its time and the focus will be on the retro aspect, not on the game it self.

If they play a remake - they will not get the same experience you did either. It will be different even if they remake it shot for shot - because story is also a product of its time. And if they don’t remake it shot for shot and make changes to adapt it to modern “standards” - then it’s a different, derivative game vaguely inspired by the original piggybacking on the name.

If there’s anything to learn here it’s that you absolutely can follow in Ross’s footsteps and organize a movement that will fight for what you deem important. He said multiple times “I’m doing this only because nobody else does, not because I’m a good fit for this”.

“let’s not do this because it’s not as important as X” is a bad argument, because the alternative is not that Ross suddenly picks some other topic and starts to drive it, the alternative is that nothing happens at all.

I’m of a firm opinion that no game needs a remake. Fixing up old games so that they can be played on modern systems - yes please. Remaking the same game but “”“better”“” - no thanks, I’d rather see something original and new come out

There are some exceptions like Pathologic 2 which is basically a remake but also a reimagining, but those are exceedingly rare.

DX12 games suffer a pretty hefty performance penalty on NVIDIA videocards. It’s getting better with the new drivers and recent fixes in Proton, but for now if you own NVIDIA - it’s usually on par or below Windows performance, for the more recent games. Still acceptable in my case tho

I’m still in my first timeline, but I have already

• built a Torment Nexus
• rescued some cats and dogs, keeping one as a pet
• built a liquid metal flying wyrm which seems to inspire a new religion around it
• accidentally built a building that kidnaps people and cans them for food
• accidentally gifted consciousness to 5 raccoons

Can highly recommend

Does it get to occupy it for pouring their money into finally making gaming on Linux viable?

I hate Denuvo as much as the next guy but it’s literally Steam Deck Verified

I’ve stopped booting into my Windows partition roughly a year ago. I don’t play games with kernel level anticheat and the rest works for me. Even VR. Even on NVIDIA.

she’s eepy, chilling in her cat bed since it’s rainy outside

It’s WashedBlue: https://iczelia.net/about/#my-setup

Her blog is worth a read: https://iczelia.net/

The games are great, if only he could, like, not open his mouth…

There’s ntfs3 and ntfs-3g, both have their own problems. I wonder if the new one will make it possible to run fsck scans