Cyborganism

Saved this post for later. Am also a sucker for cheap little indie games.

The dev studio is actually from Québec city in my province. They made a stop at a store just a couple of blocks from my place to sign the cartridge boxes and meet fans.

I bought the thing to play it, collector value be dammed.

Bought it as a cartridge and haven’t opened it yet. I should get to it.

SSSSHHHHHHHH!!! 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫 Don’t give anyone any ideas.

It’s like a Honda Civic. It’s just reliable and easy to maintain with good performance and some good features and some you don’t really want but are still practical. And there’s a big community giving lots of support and documentation to tweak it if you want more out of it.

Honestly, just install Kubuntu 24.04. Install it and forget it. It’s super stable and has great support. Whatever people argue about the Snap packaging system, that will be almost invisible to you as the end user.

Honestly, even if I don’t like Snaps that much, Ubuntu/Kubuntu ain’t so bad after all. I’ve been running it as a daily for months now on my Linux-only gaming PC and it’s working quite well. There’s good support for proprietary drivers and media codecs out of the box.

And personally, I’d advise on using the Kubuntu version because KDE is so much closer in terms of desktop paradigm than Gnome.

And Fedora ain’t bad either.

Maybe that’ll give a good reason for game companies to start developing games natively for Linux.

What’s a good alternative though? Tech giants have taken over Internet search and are pretty much all striving to be alike in generating the most revenue possible through ads and incorporating AI.

I haven’t figured them out yet 😅

Maybe, but they provide the software without DRM and with the option to get an offline installer.

(I just learned Steam does that as well apparently but with extra steps.)

You have the right to your opinion.

But there’s no need to go around insulting people.

Interesting. I’ll check that out. There’s a few games I would like to keep a backup of just in case.

Yeah moving forward I’m going to buy on GOG.

Sorry. I just got so, so fed up with Microsoft’s bull shit recently that I just went ahead and got rid of it.

I’ve been dreaming about this possibility for 20 years now and it’s finally doable.

They had something really good with Windows 10 but over time they made it worse and worse. Adding “features” nobody wants each update like Copilot and advertisements.

Also Windows 10 was supposed to be a rolling release and the last Windows we’d ever install. Then Windows 11 came out and it’s the worst Windows OS they have ever made in my opinion, and that’s including Win ME.

My comment, even if it didn’t bring anything to the conversation, I think reflects that a lot of technical users on here have started doing. Migrating to Linux and laughing at the problems that Microsoft keeps creating for their users.

Oh cool! I didn’t know they went that far.

I’m buying from GOG from now on.

So if I download a pirate copy, I’m in the clear because I purchased a license.

Doesn’t GOG provide the games without copy protection? Doesn’t that mean you can actually back up your installed games?

In any case, these services should allow their customers to download a digital copy of an ISO or an installable package of the game so it can be saved as a backup and installed independently.

Wow. That’s crazy.

* posted from my Windows-free PC *

I also found Death Stranding to be weird.

It’s like… Death coming ashore?

I mean I get that it’s about this whole concept of people having their own beach when they die or being able to travel to other people’s beaches or something weird like that. But they’re really pushing it with that title.

And also the fact that Death end with ‘th’ followed by a word starting with ‘s’ makes it really difficult to pronounce.