Waiting to get accepted. I'm psyched about this. Games on Linux has always been a bit of a tedious affair when mixing open and closed source games (download/cd-install for commercial games, package managers for open ones, tar.bz's for others that are not in the repos etc.).
Desura for Linux will be an epic win for Desura and the community alike. Game on.
I don't think every little Open Source game should be available on Desura, there are simply too many, and the quality varies a lot.
That said, there are games out there that definitely should make the cut:
- Batlle for Wesnoth
- FreeCiv
- TeeWorlds
- a lot of others
I wouldn't want Desura to only serve pay-games, as it'd eliminate one of the reason I would like it as a linux-user in the first place: to have all my games in one, easy-to-access-and-install, place.
It's not that I can't install games outside Desura, it just wouldn't be...as nice.
Anybody know if it's possible to redeem this game on Desura somehow if you bought it through the frictional games store back in the day? New user here.
Also a big "thank you" from here ^^
On Ubuntu here. When you're used to .deb-packages then installing proprietary games can quickly become a tedious excercise for newbies who don't know about permissions, tar.gz, manually starting bin-files etc. Desura for Linux should hopefully lower that barrier. For my part, I'm looking forward to having a central game-app, instead of 50 different apps scattered around in debs, tars, bins, homedir-dot-folders etc.
Again, thank you very much ;)
ZarathustraDK
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Linux gamer on Ubuntu 11.04, waiting for Desura for Linux ^^ Specs: Processor: AMD Athlon Dual Core 4850e Ram: 4 GB Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT