Linux RPG list

4K monitors are an overpriced meme. 1920x1080 is literally all one needs, and one can use the money saved to purchase a decent GPU.

 

TBH i haven't checked how msys2 does its portability. Does it use Cygwin? I thought it just used "native" MinGW libraries. Whatever i compile though doesn't rely on any Cygwin layer, so i was under the impression everything on msys2 was compiled like that.

I built from source the X11 libraries and almost all their dependencies (msys2 doesn't contain those but i wanted to do some X11 development without running a VM and i do not have disk space for a Linux installation). It was slow, but not terribly so and as i already wrote i do not really mind it. The benefits of having msys2 are more than any negatives for me.

 

They are both shit.

 

I use Google docs or Office 365 for collaborative editing. And linux.

 

Unless you absolutely need GDocs for work, you should get off the platform, especially for personal use.

 

Overleaf is good if you are free to use Latex for documents. I hate it when people send me those fucking docx shit files that change every few years due to a new office version.
The least they could do is convert them to an open file format or at minimum attach a pdf with the contents.

 

I don't fuck with .doc/.xlsx anymore. It's either .txt, .csv, or .pdf from me.

 

It's a Cygwin fork with minimal changes.

 

Why are you using Linux if not to break loose of spyware from Microsoft and other companies? That seems like the main draw for me.

 

Nah, I don't care about any of that, but use Linux for everything (only occasionally switching to Windows for work and the odd game).
I use Linux because it's just way more efficient to use for both work & leisure, way more customizable, way more transparent, faster (Manjaro Plasma boots and opens programs about twice as fast as Win10 for me, both on the same SSD).
Well, and I am not depending on any software not running on it, like Adobe stuff.

I know some people use Linux for ideology reasons, but mostly I don't give a crap about software being open-source, free, fuck MS, spybloat, etc. I only care about what works better for me, and that just happens to be Linux...

 

Here's a Moronix article with cherry-picked Linux/Windows performance numbers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=june-2018-gpus&num=2

It's no surprise given that Valve and Laminar (X-Plane 11 authors) put effort into portability.

 

I see your point. I use gdocs/office cloud mainly for convenience. It is very basic, but it is effective for collaborative editing and to be free from the need of specific OS/computer to do my work. Plus, in this way, I don't care anymore if people insist to send me docx or xlsx even if I am using linux. Even if I am using windows or a mac, I don't care to install any office shit just to see these documents.
While I do my core work on private computing servers (running linux), privacy is not so an issue in my work since the main goal is anyway to render public and accessible my results (I work in an academic institution)

 

What's the proper way to manage games bought on gog and humble? I looked today at my installed games in Lutris and felt completely overwhelmed. Since I haven't installed them through Lutris(it can install GOG at least) I need to delete them one by one by running uninstall script.
I can't believe it, by I almost crave to buy games on Steam. With Proton and management it's easy to give in.

 

When I want to delete a game I simply "rm -rf /opt/game" (or wherever I installed it to). Unlike windows, you don't have some global registry that has to get cleaned up as well. Although, you may have to look to see if the game created some content in your home-directory, but sometimes I do want that to stay even if the game is removed.

 

Well, GOG installer created links in menus which will stay. Plus it might have created something in /bin and whatnot. Although I doubt about the latter since it's not some packet. I still need to "uninstall". Although, perhaps I should have used Lutris to install everything from GOG and I would have had less of a problem.

 

For GOG, I'd definitely go entirely through Lutris. The GOG installers for Linux are a joke, some of the slowest installers of all time and with lots of trouble in the "maintenance" department.
It's basically Windows installers with a Linux paint - which is just weird.

That they cannot be arsed to put Galaxy on Linux shows that they really don't care about the platform. Updating games is a nightmare with GOG on Linux.
How does Lutris handle GOG game updates, actually?

 

Yeah, I would not recommend any installer that requires running as root and puts files into system areas. Nothing goes in my /bin without going through my distro's package manager. I install GOG games using wine to /opt/gog/<gamename>, and then deleting them is simple. Any "menu" links are in your ~/ area and can just be deleted from the file system directly, but installing the games through wine doesn't lead to any of those issues.

 

I had a similar urge to just use Steam when I was using Linux a while back, despite how much I hate Steam. My advice: switch to Windows. Managing individual programs is much easier there.

^ You don't have to deal with any of the above crap or anything similar if you use Windows with an admin account.

 

Yeah, they really dropped the ball here by having Galaxy 2 without linux support, despite saying that Galaxy 1 would have it.

Beats me. But I don't think it actually patches games.

 

Holy fucking shit, integer scaling is available for all Linux GPU drivers. Including the nvidia blob.

Code:

xrandr --output DP-0 --scale 0.5 --filter nearest

 

I have been playing Frayed Knights, Antharion and Legends of Amberland on Wine, and so far they have been working flawlessly. They're three charming and kind of unambitious indie games, nothing to write home about actually, yet I believe they're being unfairly overlooked around here.

Knights of the Chalice does also work, but sadly without music.

 

That's why I never ended up finishing Pathfinder. Fucking nightmare to redownload with every damn patch.

 

FYI, there is now minigalaxy.
It is basically a simplified GOG client for Linux. However, still doesn't have patching.

I seriously doubt it ever will have patching, as the reason for not having it is AFAIK that GOG doesn't even support that for Linux. There's just not much that could be done to work around GOG limitations.
The developer would probably have to offer separate patch files, and that would be a ton of work to do, and only for GOG...

Still, it seems to be pretty cool for games that aren't being patched anymore.

 

There's also GameHub: https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub

It handles Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle and Itch.io. It notifies you when there are GOG updates, but it can't patch them.

 

I've wanted to play a bunch of PSP Games because it's a handheld I never had access to but I've heard PSP emulation is absolute garbage. I know for a fact some of those listed have great emulation though. Is the psp part just Linux cultists doing their whole usual thing where they act like Linux has pretty much no downsides and a few crashes is considered good or is there legitimately good PSP emulation? No stuttering, sound issues, etc?