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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Metro Redux
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 05:34:19 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
> <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

> >Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:55 this Wednesday (GMT):
> >> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:20:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
> >><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> >>
> >>>vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 04:51 this Tuesday (GMT):
> >>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:17:45 -0000 (UTC), Ant wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> You're 22 minutes late, buddy. Also, it's more than on GoG!  ;P
> >>>>
> >>>> (Top-posting really screws up quoting and attributions...just sayin'.)
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you, Spalls, for posting.  I saw your post, thought "GOG", and moved
> >>>> on...not realizing it was on Steam.  (I stick with Steam games to limit
> >>>> frustration on Linux.)  Thank you, Ant, for mentioning that it is on Steam.
> >>>[snip]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Cheers. Getting GOG working on linux is pretty frustrating since it
> >>>doesn't seem like theres a good launcher for it.
> >>
> >> In fairness, there's not really a good launcher for GOG on Windows
> >> either. ;-)
> >>
> >> Galaxy is tolerable, and I can appreciate some of the things it tries
> >> to do (like merging multiple libraries --Steam, GOG, Epic, etc.-- into
> >> one database) but its actual implementation feels sluggish and
> >> unpolished. 
> >>
> >> Then again, the big draw to GOG is that you can download its
> >> installers and then archive them. I haven't tested recently, but the
> >> installers worked well with Linux when I tried it years back. The
> >> games themselves were hit-or-miss, but that was only to be expected.
> >> But getting the games installed was easy.
> >>
> >> TL;DR: fuck the launcher, just use the stand-alone installers for the
> >> games.
> >
> >
> >Oh no... so I have to organize them myself? The horror!!

> Argh. You're one of these people who have ten thousand icons on their
> desktop, aren't you? ;-)

> Myself, I think I learned file management techniques by all my years
> navigating FTP sites back in the day. Folders within folders, all
> neatly and hierarchly organized (and usually with a hand-crafted NFO
> file to explain what's within, if the directory name doesn't make it
> immediately obvious). 

> ftp.simtech.edu for the win ;-)

ftp.cdrom.com/pub/games/idsoftware/doom IIRC 4 my FTP Days. :)
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