In other words, another reason to never buy games on Steam. Not only does it protect you from having to pay twice to get satisfaction, it may hasten actually getting the game.

That sounds like DRM issue, and it might be indeed the case for some backwards thinking publishers, but it's not the only common reason, especially for normal thinking developers who don't care about DRM. More commonly, for those the reason is size. I.e. if they assume that GOG is too small, they simply don't make any effort to release here. Or something of that sort.

Thanks. I'll have to add that to the stable of approaches I already use.

In case anyone else wants them, here are mine:
Extracting music from XWB files on Linux
Extracting The Soundtrack From Your Copy of Desktop Dungeons
Working around the Cave Story+ “Soundtrack”

While we’re on the topic of soundtracks, I’m going to write a short guide to convert the TFA files from StarTopia soundtrack to FLAC files.
https://www.gog.com/forum/startopia/soundtrack_wasnt_it_on_mucky_foots_page_once

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Done!
Convert the StarTopia soundtrack to FLAC

Looks like we should open a dedicated thread for such soundtracks :)

There are a few games that have libudev.so.0 as a dependency, but since systemd ate udev these games can no longer find the library, because its now called libudev.so.1.

Is linking to libudev.so.1 the best way to fix this or is putting a copy of the old libudev.so.0 into the games directory a better way to go?

I just grab libudev.so.0 from a Debian package. It's LGPL licensed and, for effortless legal compliance, it's possible to include the source in the same folder and it'll only take a couple hundred kilobytes.

Very good point

Might I pose a little question here, being a total IT noob?

I run Kubuntu (Ubuntu with the KDE desktop) on an old pc and all works well, but I noticed that the amount of free hard drive space is slowly declining;

Last week there was 333.4 GB free, and currently there is still 331.2 GB left? It should be noted I haven't installed any packages/games since then, so I'm assuming that space is being slowly eaten away by updates on stuff I have installed?

So I was wondering if that was indeed the case, (because 2 GB in a week's time is a bit big for just updates on like 30 packages methinks), and if there is some sort of "cleanup" method just in case older obsolete stuff is still about and clogging the pc up?

It is nothing drastic, of course, as 331 GB of free disc space is still like 3/4 of the drive, but I got me wondering as too what was eating that tidbit of free space?

Could be updates, could be runaway logging. I once had an app go crazy and balloon the .xsession-errors file in my home directory up to over a gigabyte in size before I noticed. (Keep in mind that files won't actually be deleted if they're still in use, so you have to delete the log file and kill the application to free any such space)

If you don't mind installing a KDE application, I recommend Filelight for identifying what's using up your space. It draws a very nice interactive radial graph. (GNOME added an inferior clone of it to Baobab, but it really is inferior. For example, Filelight makes heavy use of caching and selective re-scan to make itself a more viable solution for scanning and pruning really large swathes of files.)

Another good tool for that sort of thing is ncdu, which gives you a terminal-based view in the form of a sorted-by-size listing which you can navigate and drill down into using the arrow keys.

How do you setup a cloned display under Linux with Nvidia proper.. propane.. property.... drivers?
In Nvidia-Settings I can't find anything, although I've seen screenshots where there was a 'clone' option.
I've tried Xrandr but apparently the Nvidia drivers don't fully support that, so that didn't work.

It's called TwinView. Start nvidia-settings and look for "Configure" button under "X Server Display Configuration".


Bleachbit is the tool. You can install slightly older version from the official repos (still works fine) or download the latest manually from bleachbit.sourceforge.net.

After you open it up, you can take screenshots of it and paste them here if you like, so I could tell you which options are safe to check.

Hmm I thought Twinview was the stretchy thing, one screen across multiple displays.

You're right, it is used for this too, but one of the options is clone you're looking for. After you activate TwinView, look under Position, Orientation or similar for Clone.