massive_bereavement

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Good, that was on purpose.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2024

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  • Maybe, but what I miss from shareware is that I would get a game (e.g. Quake, Duke Nukem) from someone and be able to play without restrictions the first chapter.

    In fact, most shareware games had also multiplayer available so those were very common in school’s computer “labs”.

    Freemium apps, in my experience, have too many ads and fiendish tactics to my taste (Though I know it’s not all of them).



  • TLDR: If you like massive multiplayer games, those might not work. Most of the rest will if using compatibility settings in steam.

    I would say it depends on the game and platform: most games I play in Steam are just install and play, sometimes I just need to activate the compatibility options.

    https://protondb.com is a fantastic trove of info for how to play most games. Though it might not cover them all as I was told, that hasn’t been my case.

    Lutris, on the other hand is a bit tougher as you said, and sometimes certain games require some time investment to run.

    That said, I don’t play massive multiplayer games that might require anticheat and those won’t work on linux AFAIT.