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Posted August 19, 2014
50 games for the free OS available right NOW!

A while ago, [url=http://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_soon_on_more_platforms]we've announced our plans to add Linux support as one of the features of our digital platform, with 100 games on the launch day sometime this fall. We've put much time and effort into this project and now we've found ourselves with over 50 titles, classic and new, prepared for distribution, site infrastructure ready, support team trained and standing by, and absolutely no reason to wait until October or November. We're still aiming to have at least 100 Linux games in the coming months, but we've decided not to delay the launch just for the sake of having a nice-looking number to show off to the press. It's not about them, after all, it's about you. So, one of the most popular site feature requests on our community wishlist is granted today: Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!

The first 50+ titles we've have in store for you come from all the corners of our DRM-Free catalog. Note that we've got many classic titles coming officially to Linux for the very first time, thanks to the custom builds prepared by our dedicated team of penguin tamers. That's over twenty fan-favorite GOG.com classics, like &[url=http://www.gog.com/game/flatout_2]Flatout 2, , <a href="http://www.gog.com/game/darklands">Darklands, or Realms of the Haunting we've personally ushered one by one into the welcoming embrace of Linux gamers. That's already quite a nice chunk of our back-catalog, and you can expect more from our dedicated Linux team soon!

Now, for the recent titles. We've got some indie games with native Linux versions that finally find their well-deserved spot in our store. Among them, debuting on Linux, - a well received original comedic Sci-Fi puzzler. On top of that, be on the lookout for two new additions to the GOG.com catalog: [url=http://www.gog.com/game/gods_will_be_watching]Gods Will Be Watching (coming in a couple of hours) and Unrest:Special Edition (Linux build coming right up!), both of them very fresh and intriguing. This is the very first time we can provide you with all the PC versions of a premiere game, and we will continue to do so in the future. If there's a Linux version of a title we're releasing, our aim is to deliver it to you Day-1. But enough about us, let's talk about the games. Here's what you can be playing on Linux today:

Anomaly Warzone Earth
Ascendant
Bionic Dues
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold - first time on Linux!
Blake Stone: Planet Strike - first time on Linux!
Bloodnet - first time on Linux!
Braveland
CLARC - first time on Linux!
Darklands - first time on Linux!
Darwinia
Defcon
Don't Starve + DLC
Dragonsphere - first time on Linux!
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition
FlatOut - first time on Linux!
Flatout 2 - first time on Linux!
Fragile Allegiance - first time on Linux!
Gemini Rue
Gods Will Be Watching
Hammerwatch
Hocus Pocus - first time on Linux!
Kentucky Route Zero
The Last Federation
Legend of Grimrock
Litil Divil - first time on Linux!
Long Live the Queen
MouseCraft
Multiwinia
Normality - first time on Linux!
Pinball Gold Pack - first time on Linux!
Pinball World - first time on Linux!
Pirates! Gold Plus - first time on Linux!
Realms of the Haunting - first time on Linux!
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender - first time on Linux!
Rise of the Triad: Dark War - first time on Linux!
Shattered Haven
The Shivah HD
Sid Meier's Colonization - first time on Linux!
Sid Meier's Covert Action - first time on Linux!
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Slipstream 5000 - first time on Linux!
Space Pirates and Zombies
Spacechem
Stargunner - first time on Linux!
SteamWorld Dig
Super Hexagon
Surgeon Simulator 2013
Sword of the Samurai - first time on Linux!
Teslagrad
Unrest:Special Edition (Linux build on the way!)
Uplink
VVVVVV

As if this wasn't exciting enough, we've put more than half of these titles on a special promo! Head out to the promo page and find out which of them you can get up to 75% off until Tuesday, 9:59AM GMT. Of course, all of the games from the list above that you already own will be updated with Linux versions with no additional cost for you, just as you might have expected from GOG.com.

"OK, but how will Linux support actually work on GOG.com" - you might ask. For both native Linux versions, as well as special builds prepared by our team, GOG.com will provide distro-independent tar.gz archives and support convenient DEB installers for the two most popular Linux distributions: Ubuntu and Mint, in their current and future LTS editions. Helpful and responsive customer support has always been an important part of the GOG.com gaming experience. We wouldn't have it any other way when it comes to Linux, and starting today our helpdesk offers support for our official Linux releases on Ubuntu and Mint systems.

Diversity and freedom of choice have always been an important part of the GOG.com way. We're very glad that we could improve our service with the addition of the free (and DRM-Free) alternative to the commercial operating systems. Talking with gamers is just as important, so we're counting on your feedback! If you've got any questions, suggestions, or run into any trouble, just tell us in the forum thread below this post. Just please be gentle, this is [url=http://youtu.be/qBxbPts5tOk" target="_blank]our very first time[/url] with Linux. Happy launch day, everyone!
Posted July 24, 2014
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Barefoot_Monkey: An Ubuntu logo makes sense, since that's the operating system that GOG's claiming to support, ...
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Woolytoes: They claim to support Linux and not just Ubuntu, and the logo for that is Tux the penguin. Nothing else.

[url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.svg]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.svg[/url]

So it would make more sense to have the penguin as logo, and not the logo of ONE distribution only.
Actually they claim to support Ubuntu 14.04 and Mint 17. For example, see Duke Nukem 3D
Posted July 24, 2014
Just got home and seen this news. All of my YES. I'm super happy about this news and I'm not even a big *Nix user.
Posted July 24, 2014
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Woolytoes: They claim to support Linux and not just Ubuntu, and the logo for that is Tux the penguin. Nothing else.

[url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.svg]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.svg[/url]

So it would make more sense to have the penguin as logo, and not the logo of ONE distribution only.
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ChrisSD: Actually they claim to support Ubuntu 14.04 and Mint 17. For example, see Duke Nukem 3D
Read the news. It's Linux support all over it :)

"to add Linux support", "have at least 100 Linux games", "Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!", and many more.

LINUX not just Ubuntu :D
Posted July 24, 2014
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ChrisSD: Actually they claim to support Ubuntu 14.04 and Mint 17. For example, see Duke Nukem 3D
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Woolytoes: Read the news. It's Linux support all over it :)

"to add Linux support", "have at least 100 Linux games", "Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!", and many more.

LINUX not just Ubuntu :D
Aye but do you expect them to support Android. That's Linux after all :P So is my router for that matter :D
Posted July 24, 2014
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GamallIda: Now if the gog downloader could work on Linux as well, it would even be at least 20% cooler ... :D
My guess: the downloader won't appear on Linux at all, Galaxy will replace it first.
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JudasIscariot: Then to run your game just type something like this:

gog-normality

Games with longer titles should be ran like so:

gog-rise-of-the-triad-dark-war

(You can TAB complete the game names so this saves you time :) )

:)
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MrPointless: Is this meant to execute the game regardless of which directory the terminal is currently sitting in? I seem to have to manually navigate to /usr/games beforehand or include the full file path when running the script.

Something I've also noticed (and may be related to the above question): My current distro, Antergos (based on Arch), did not have /usr/games from the off, causing the install script to throw up an error trying to write to a folder that did not exist. I had to manually create that folder first, after which the installer ran without a hitch.

Beyond that and having to install libpng12 to get DOSBox working (this doesn't seem to be mentioned on the gamecards for DOSBox games, though I don't know if that's usually auto-installed with Ubuntu/Mint), I'm a happy bunny right now. :)
/usr/games needs to be in $PATH, which I guess it is on Ubuntu and Mint.
And yeah, the installer assumes an environment similar to Ubuntu (or at least Debian), which means us Archites, as well as Fedorans, Suseians and others might have to do some manual work.
Post edited July 24, 2014 by Maighstir
Posted July 24, 2014
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Woolytoes: Read the news. It's Linux support all over it :)

"to add Linux support", "have at least 100 Linux games", "Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!", and many more.

LINUX not just Ubuntu :D
You should probably read the requirements.
Posted July 24, 2014
Now this is very cool. Good on ya GOG!
Posted July 24, 2014
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Woolytoes: Read the news. It's Linux support all over it :)

"to add Linux support", "have at least 100 Linux games", "Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!", and many more.

LINUX not just Ubuntu :D
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silviucc: You should probably read the requirements.
Well, it says Linux in bold letters :)
Post edited July 24, 2014 by Woolytoes
Posted July 24, 2014
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GamallIda: Now if the gog downloader could work on Linux as well, it would even be at least 20% cooler ... :D
Open alternatives are preferable :)

https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader
Posted July 24, 2014
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Maighstir: /usr/games needs to be in $PATH, which I guess it is on Ubuntu and Mint.
And yeah, the installer assumes an environment similar to Ubuntu (or at least Debian), which means us Archites, as well as Fedorans, Suseians and others might have to do some manual work.
That's fair enough. It didn't take me long to find how to add the folder to $PATH (entering PATH=$PATH:/usr/games into a terminal), so that's was easily sorted. Thanks. :)

[EDIT] Scratch that. That was only temporary, lasting as long as the terminal remained open. A more permanent measure was to edit my ~/.bashrc and add the following: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games

That seems to be doing it.
Post edited July 24, 2014 by MrPointless
Posted July 24, 2014
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JudasIscariot: If this happened on a supported distro could you send us a ticket, please? I tested a few final release candidate builds and we never needed to install xdg-user-dirs.
xdg-user-dirs is priority optional but has rdepends of xubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop. So it'll come in on a standard Ubuntu install but not necessarily on a minimal setup.

The .deb really should list any dependencies that aren't priority essential. They're a LONG ways from lintian-clean, too. I expect sharp edges to start with, but this is important stuff that GOG should work to refine.
Posted July 24, 2014
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nstgc: Thats probably because they were just running in windows/mac DOSbox before, and now just need to be run in Linux DOSbox. This is far from impressive.
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IAmSinistar: Gotta love the human propensity for ingratitude. GOG went to the effort to make these run out of the box for Linux users, and is willing to do the support work for them. Hardly a minimal gesture on their part.

But yes, please keep complaining that enough is never enough. That's the surest way to get people to want to keep giving you more.
You are mistaking being ungrateful with being grounded in reality. This isn't an impressive launch, especially since it didn't come with a downloader. This is a good first step, and I am glad GOG is finally coming around. When a vetranarian unsuccessfully saves your cate, you don't celebrate, but you can still be greteful for the effort.

I appreciate the gesture that is this Linux Launch at GOG (or more accurately GNU/Linux as some are griping about), and eagerly await more titles. The Mac games didn't come all at once, and neither will the Linux games. I understand that there is little incentive for GOG to release games for Linux. In fact, the only one I can think of is to compete with Steam (which has gotten considerably more of my business as a direct result of having games for Linux). Still, only a small portion of people actually care about that. GOG likely will see only a 1% sales boost. Knowing this, how can I not be grateful for the attempt.

Rather than being called ungrateful, as this is inaccurate, I'd rather people see me unimpressed, which is the word I myself used.
Posted July 24, 2014
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JudasIscariot: If this happened on a supported distro could you send us a ticket, please? I tested a few final release candidate builds and we never needed to install xdg-user-dirs.
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zorach: xdg-user-dirs is priority optional but has rdepends of xubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop. So it'll come in on a standard Ubuntu install but not necessarily on a minimal setup.
In my case it's Debian testing / KDE, and

apt-cache rpedends xdg-user-dirs

produces only Gnome / metacity related packages. I guess that's the reason it wasn't installed. Do you think it's a bug for KDE not to include it?
Post edited July 24, 2014 by shmerl
Posted July 24, 2014
Great and unexpected news GOG!
Way to go
Posted July 24, 2014
Thank you!

I'm really excited now. This is even better than when I first discovered GOG.com.....
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