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Thanks for this great giveaway!

Your The Big "Try Linux" GOG Game Giveaway made me try out Linux Mint (first as live system on a flash drive and later as dualboot with Windows 7 on my laptop). Sorry to say that but I will remove Linux Mint soon. I still had trouble to run some of my games and for that reason i only used Windows 7 all the time (I used this setup for about 2 months now and started using Windows only about 6 weeks ago.). It is just so much easier for me. (Install a game and play it and don't search the internet for a solution if I failed again with Wine.) Dualboot is a nice way to try it out but if I don't use it I don't need to keep it.
That said I can recommend Linux Mint for all user who don't play that many games and just want to write things on e.g. Word or who just want to surf in the Internet (even it is not that easy to use Netflixe^^).
Let's see what the future will bring.

I'm in for:

Victor Vran
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Hard West Collector's Edition
Transistor

Good luck all!
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Ritualisto: That said I can recommend Linux Mint for all user who don't play that many games and just want to write things on e.g. Word or who just want to surf in the Internet (even it is not that easy to use Netflixe^^).
I disagree with the "all user who don't play that many games" part ;)
Hey, even if you don’t want to mess around with WINE, there’s something like 400 Linux games on GOG only! And if you’re not allergic to DRM, there’s close to ten times that many Linux games on Steam.

On the other side I agree that running non-native games is not always easy, especially when you’re new to the Linux world. That’s why projects like , [url=https://www.gog.com/mix/games_supported_by_debians_gamedatapackager]game-data-packager or my own ./play.it exist: to take care of the boring installation stuff and let you enjoy your games without hassle ;)
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Smannesman: And some kind of breathalyzer logon security.
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mrkgnao: Unfortunately, I have a feeling that such a measure might considerably reduce the forum traffic in general.
It would basically be just me and tinyE here, and we'd probably screw things up so badly that the place turns into a black hole.
There are games that I'm interested in, but I've been using Linux since Vista launch, and it's been almost two year since last time I boot to my windows partition on my home PC. I wouldn't fit for "Try" part in this Giveaway :)

Still, no harm trying

I'm in for (sorted by interest) :

Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Edition
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

Thanks for doing this

[Edit]
Didn't realize I don't qualified for this as I don't have enough Rep
Feel free to ignore. Cheers :)
Post edited January 12, 2016 by kusumahendra
Lots of reading in your links. I will have to make time to read thru and see how it is. Judging by the comments, it doesn't look too difficult. You sound very passionate about Linux so the least any of us can do is at least read your guide and give it a chance. It sounds less problematic than Windows too which is always a plus.

I've "favorited" your threads and I promise to read thru.
I'm in for :
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition
Hard West Collector's Edition

Great giveaways, thank you for sharing your knowledge and generous spirit.
Thank you for yet another fantastically generous and informative giveaway adamhm. I'm afraid I'm stuck with windows because that's what I got with my budget. I'm in for:

Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
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theslitherydeee: I'm afraid I'm stuck with windows because that's what I got with my budget.
Wait, you know that Linux is free of charge, right?
So it can only have a smaller impact on your budget than Windows ;)
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soxy_lady: why should i try linziux and wohts being givin away?
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mrkgnao: You might want to read the opening post.
Pretty sure that's an alt account by someone who just decided to troll across a number of threads.

It's not me, but a few of the posts were actually amusing. They made an appearance in the midst of a race to the deadline in our mafia game and a few other places.

Krypsyn had a funny response, and JMich took the opportunity to recruit, though given his tone I'm pretty sure he was aware it was a troll.
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mrkgnao: You might want to read the opening post.
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bler144: Pretty sure that's an alt account by someone who just decided to troll across a number of threads.

It's not me, but a few of the posts were actually amusing. They made an appearance in the midst of a race to the deadline in our mafia game and a few other places.

Krypsyn had a funny response, and JMich took the opportunity to recruit, though given his tone I'm pretty sure he was aware it was a troll.
My favourite is her GOG mix "my friend nordqvist likes these". Her friend must really love games that begin with A.
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mrkgnao: My favourite is her GOG mix "my friend nordqvist likes these". Her friend must really love games that begin with A.
Or 80.

That is pretty random, and amusing.
adamhm, thank you for another Grand Linux Giveaway. Loving it! :D

I'm on arch and pretty happy about it, but I do understand people wanting stuff to work the way they're used to, hence sticking to their windows / mac os whatever and not bothering to look over the fence.
But what is really, really bothering me is that many governmental institutions like schools, community/city administrations, hospitals and so on use windows. For one it's thrown out tax money (they can do the same things using free linux distros) and more importantly it's so insecure they are practically asking for data theft and security implications.

Stuff like that makes me really angry:
UK government pays Microsoft £5.5m to extend Windows XP support
Data theft in german parliament (it's not that you need better "cyber-defense" but just stop using windows (XP) ;P
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vv221: I disagree with the "all user who don't play that many games" part ;)
Hey, even if you don’t want to mess around with WINE, there’s something like 400 Linux games on GOG only! And if you’re not allergic to DRM, there’s close to ten times that many Linux games on Steam.
You are right. I should rewrite the sentence. The problem for me is to get the games running which I am interested in. Although there are many games for Linux not all games i like to play are running without trouble with Linux Mint. ;)
Very nice set of titles, adamhm! Thanks for another Linux giveaway. I'd like to try my luck with:

Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Door Kickers
Victor Vran
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Transistor
Hard West Collector's Edition


I may eventually do a dual boot on my XP with Linux...
low rated
Thanks for another big GA!

I'm in for :
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition
Satellite Reign
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Hard West Collector's Edition
Shadowrun Returns
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Trine Enchanted Edition
Post edited January 17, 2016 by briareoushex
Oh!
May I be in if I use Debian already?
If yes then count me in for Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition (preferably), Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut or Shadowrun: Hong Kong.
Thanks for GA and catch my +1!