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20 hours agoIs there a German compound word for ‘wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man’?
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9·21 hours agoThe shithole of the shithole.
There was a time in the 2010s where some fairly large games had native Linux versions:
- Alien: Isolation
- Ark: Survival Evolved
- BioShock: Infinite
- Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel (albeit with broken multiplayer caused by mismatched game versions)
- Cities: Skylines
- Dead Island
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
- Europa Universalis IV
- Hearts of Iron IV
- Hitman (2016)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Shadow Warrior (2013) (notable for inspiring Doom 2016 and being a precursor to the current wave of boomer shooters)
- War Thunder
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and XCOM 2
That, along with Valve games (and by extension a lot of mods and custom server content) and basically every indie game you’d get from the Humble Bundle or itch.io having a native Linux version made it possible to be a Linux gamer before Proton was even a twinkle in Gabe’s eye. That was especially the case for me, since the types of games that tended to run on Linux were the sort of games I wanted to play anyway.
Fast forward to today and even Valve can’t be arsed to make a native Linux version of Deadlock. All of Frictional’s games from 2007 to 2020 had a Linux version, until 2023 when Amnesia: The Bunker didn’t have one.
I’m glad we have Proton: it runs Arx Fatalis better than modern windows does, let’s me play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Fallout: New Vegas, and a slew of other games. It also opens Linux gaming up to a wider audience and removes a lot of the anxiety someone might have about switching over from wondering if they’ll be able to play everything they’re interested in. But in exchange for that we’re definitely paying the price in actual native games, and to some degree further entrenching Windows as the standard.
It appears that the Civilization series is one notable exception to this trend, with V (2010), VI (2016) and VII (2025) all having Linux versions.
I’d like for that to happen as well, but this seems like a very optimistic outlook.
Where does Dillo fit into this?
Its got cookies disabled by default, no support for JavaScript, and only partial support for CSS. Just as god intended.
Some trains now use lasers to clean leaf residue off the rails.
If it makes you feel any better not every climatologist agrees that a nuclear exchange will result in an apocalyptic cooling event. Its unclear how much soot will make it all the way into the stratosphere, how long it will persist, and how many fire storms would be created in the first place.
I’m still planning to off myself in the event of nuclear war though.