it's a bummer, i enjoyed the last test and i'm actually quite looking forward to it, but i genuinely don't know if it's gonna be worth the rigamarole of booting into windows. seems vanishingly unlikely that it runs on linux though as you point out. 💔

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Quoting: helloCLDOn the off chance I actually play through all of this, does anyone have any other recent Quake mods they recommend checking out?

if you've not done the machinegames campaign for the remaster, those are very good. not recent, but arcane dimensions is another classic.

i'm sure the actual quakeheads will have some deeper cuts, but hopefully that gets you started. :)

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completely happy with arch.

wouldn't recommend it to anyone i wasn't gonna be able to support myself, but cachy seems in my experience to be a very solid way to get arch with sensible defaults. i do think the various optimised repos and kernel are not really very impactful, but it's very functional and well put together.

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phenomenal mod, can't wait to dig into it more.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI want to see a proper Linux Client or a API upgrade for 3rd Party Game Library Organizers.

They really should team up with WINE and build "GOG Bottles" to aid in their game preservation program.

totally agree. i'm a game developer, have been on linux for most of a year now, have reformatted my boot partition in-place, transitioned my arch install from mkinitcpio to booster, and from systemd-boot to limine -- and i still can barely figure out wine without either steam or heroic doing the heavy lifting.

obviously with heroic it's easy to pull in gog games anyway, but a one click "official" solution from gog itself would go a long way.

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happy holidays folks :)

the site and you all have been a great resource to be able to fully switch to linux with confidence!

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if i'm being extremely charitable - i can see how a focus on AI might support their goal of diversifying funding away from google (by hitching their wagon to the AI bubble)

you have to assume that at the board level it's being done out of sincere belief and motivation though, so we'll see.

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Quoting: scaineEdit... I've just read the post and their "double bottom line" manifesto, and it's clear that their going all in on AI. Goddamit. Time to look for another browser.

thanks for bringing attention to this, didn't notice that! it's funny, the stated goals make sense on some level - diversify income from search, bring "trustworthy" open AI models to the forefront.

just no acknowledgement that AI is an enormous bubble of absolute fucking bollocks that you have to be tricked into using, which is kind of important.

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what a load of shit. 🙄

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they certainly present it as directly funding the preservation efforts, rather than the store as a whole.

i can't really imagine this is a meaningful source of funding for the store, rather i'd guess it's a way to get people more invested in preservation and therefore build up the profile of the programme. "look, big publisher. x many people want freelancer to be available for purchase, and they're willing to put money behind it."

i might be completely full of shit though :)

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