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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Metro Redux
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:50:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 20:15 this Friday (GMT):
> 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? ;-)

$ ls -1 Desktop/ | wc -l

32

Not /that/ much?

> 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 ;-)


Well, I was never around for that era.
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