The software seems a bit icky to champion itself as

a video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.

And then they delete GOG installer assistance from their database if they aren’t being actively sold. Like, that’s the whole point of a GoG installer. Preservation for when it’s taken off a storefront!

Instead the owner recommends you pirate a CD and locked discussion.

I dug out mine out of the closet recently and was so confused when it didn’t power on properly. Turns out, the .3v difference between a Duracell and an Eneloop really matter when you scale it to 6 cells!

gog has a bunch of tweaks for the stuff they host. I’m guessing it’s either a clause in the contract for their storefront, or this is a volunteer for the game preservation program.

Upon second viewing, I highly suspect he glued that cover onto the case… which will warp/peel off SO FAST.

There is a reason cases have a plastic shield and lips on the case to hold the cover in.

Yeah, I share your pain. I think I ended up 3D printing something like this but the game density is very low for shelving. So I ended up putting most things into something more like this and throwing them all into a drawer.

I’m not happy with either solution.

Maybe if this were printed by a professional…

EDIT: Ha, totally missed the sentence where you point directly to a professional who makes custom cases. Derp.

Yeah, I tried audacious. But I use a lot of plugins to run weird formats, so it doesn’t cover my usage. Neither does VLC. I’m using Wine to listen to music for now… but not nearly as much as I used to on Windows.

I’ve got a bug in Wine that the entire desktop UI locks up on first launch. Not to mention opening a second song opens a second Wine. Not optimal.

I’ve searched through logs and journalctl to see if there is a reason for the lockup, but best I can find is that my Intel A580 GPU isn’t playing nice. I’m using Mint (not Manjaro) and nothing in my logs indicates that Intel is the issue, though.

Switched Jan of 2025. Already used 99% open source stuff on Windows, so the conversion was nearly painless.

I tried Debian at first, which didn’t support my bleeding edge new hardware. So I tried LMDE… which also (unsurprisingly) didn’t support new stuff either. It wasn’t until I landed on regular Linux Mint that things hit a good stride.

I still mourn the loss of Winamp though… :(

I’m a happy middleground. I’ve had two upgrades blow up on me, out of the tens I’ve done.

One was a usrmerge catch-22. It wouldn’t let me install the package during upgrade, but also wouldn’t let me complete the upgrade without the merger finishing. Ended up reverting the install and running the merge prior to upgrade.

The second failure was just… I have no idea what I did wrong. Some commands stopped working. Then I lost SSH. Then it wouldn’t even boot. I had to do a full reinstall and rebuild. Not happy times.

Overall, it was just enough failure that I routinely run two backups prior to upgrades now. hahaha

I would have guessed a keycard inserted in a reader.

Hate to break it to you, but Facebook (ahem, sorry Meta) loves collecting your info even if you never use their services. So your info might be in this breach, even if you don’t have a username/password.

“No parent is going to buy a Wii because of the stupid name” -me, 2005

I had a coworker preparing a customer database that arrived via sneakernet. He typo’d a variable during an rm -f step and ended up wiping the device because it was his working directory and the variable was undefined.

The heart skip when an rm command runs longer than expected.

yeah, it was wild. I was trying to do set up some computer labs. Debian was the first suggestion in the guide:

After the second reinstall of Debian, I gave Fedora a try as it was the second to be suggested. Only to be greeted with this:

It took me forever to realize that dash-dot at the top left was not some stylization and was a button to show the overview.

funny you should say it like that. I just recently I tried using Debian’s default GNOME desktop and thought I had corrupted the install somehow. I reinstalled the OS two more times because it kept dumping me into a nearly blank screen with no obvious buttons to click aside network/sound/power.

I’m used to LXDE, KDE, and Cinnamon, so this was completely foreign to me… and trying to find the web browser had me at a caveman level of confusion.

I buy mainly physical games.

Will I preorder a AAA game that will have 18,000,000 copies sitting around after 6 months? Hell no.

Will I preorder a physical title from a small-medium dev/publisher that I will never see again? If they have a track record of making stuff I like.

I swear 95% of the stuff Steam recommended is reasoned with because it is popular and not because it’s something I would play.

Even when they say it’s related to a library item, it’s not even tangential. Like… Escape the Backrooms is not like Terraria. In any sense. They put that there because Youtubers are selling it.

Yeah, for me it was Technos Collection 1. :(