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Posted April 22, 2016
Extended support for our expanding catalog of Linux games



A happy day for all worshipers of the mighty penguin! Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been released and is fully supported by GOG.com, making your Linux gaming experience smoother and more stable than ever before.

Alongside the 16.04 release GOG.com will of course continue to support 14.04, although we suggest keeping your system updated to minimize the risk of running into any issues. Our support also extends to any future non-LTS releases, official Ubuntu flavors (like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.), and derivatives (e.g. Linux Mint, elementaryOS etc.), so as long as your operating system is part of the Ubuntu family, you have nothing to worry about. Naturally, our technical support and refund policy apply to all these versions.

Our brave QA team has been tirelessly testing the games in our Linux catalog and we're happy to report that nearly all of them are already fully compatible with Ubuntu 16.04. The very few temperamental ones are getting fixed soon, so keep an eye out for patches.

AMD Radeon users should remember that the fglrx driver is removed from this release and they should use the opensource driver that is included in 16.04 by default. Read more about it <span class="bold">here</span>.

If you find yourself in need of technical support or more details regarding Linux matters, head to this <span class="bold">FAQ</span>. All the information in it will be updated soon.


Happy upgrades!
Posted April 22, 2016
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Crosmando: I'm sure GOG's Linux fanbase (all 10 of them) will be pleased.
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Vythonaut: Write down your comment somewhere and read it again when Microsoft makes you turn to Linux someday... Cheers! ;)
Hell Microsoft is little by little trying to incorporate linux / unix into windows. Latest is Bash. A word Crosmando is familiar with but perhaps not so of the software going by that name.
Posted April 22, 2016
This post makes me happy. Within 24 hours of it's release GoG confirms their continued support for linux however possible.

Consider me a Grateful old Gamer. Thanks for allowing me to work and play on a system I love.
Posted April 22, 2016
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HypersomniacLive: Not sure I follow, who are you referring to?
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InkPanther: A long time ago somebody asked what does "GOG" stand for and some blue (probably TeT or Judas) jokingly wrote "Grumpy Old Gamers". I think the phrase describes perfectly many of posts under today's announcement. ;)
I believe I coined that term :P

edit: actually it was coined before I thought of it, oops: https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/gog_means_good_old_games/post94
Post edited April 22, 2016 by JudasIscariot
Posted April 22, 2016
I've never been a fan of the *buntu line of distros, I either run Slackware, my own custom build, or a minimal Debian install with packages added only as needed.

A lot of the *buntu packages don't work, out of the box, but just having them generally lets me fiddle with things until I can get many games to work on a decent distro rather than Canonical's bastardization of Linux.

Occasionally they'll use unstable libraries though, and I'll not be able to play a game until quite a while after release when the *buntu libraries move out of testing and I upgrade them in my installation.
Posted April 22, 2016
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InkPanther: A long time ago somebody asked what does "GOG" stand for and some blue (probably TeT or Judas) jokingly wrote "Grumpy Old Gamers". I think the phrase describes perfectly many of posts under today's announcement. ;)
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JudasIscariot: I believe I coined that term :P
It's perfect. :]


E: Ah, I see. (Edited post read).
Post edited April 22, 2016 by InkPanther
Posted April 22, 2016
Uh, I know it has somehow little to do with this thread but I was checking these setups and got amazed by the drastic change of setups throughout the years.
I began to get curious about on Linux 15+ years ago and not in my wildest of dreams I thought I'd see Linux players streaming, playing the latest games with their controllers and so on!

Still, would love to see some console-like Linux pc hit the scene, but hit hard. I just love to play my games on the big screen and, yet, I don't see a lot of Linux users doing that.
Posted April 22, 2016
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JudasIscariot: I believe I coined that term :P
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InkPanther: It's perfect. :]
Read my edited post, please :)
Posted April 22, 2016
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InkPanther: A long time ago somebody asked what does "GOG" stand for and some blue (probably TeT or Judas) jokingly wrote "Grumpy Old Gamers". I think the phrase describes perfectly many of posts under today's announcement. ;)
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JudasIscariot: I believe I coined that term :P

edit: actually it was coined before I thought of it, oops: https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/gog_means_good_old_games/post94
What a blast from the past: orcishgamer, GameRager, Thespian*, Lou...
Posted April 22, 2016
This release marks nearly a decade that Linux has been my primary OS. It was the Dapper Drake (6.06) that finally put windows into second place for me. I haven't used Ubuntu for a few years now, but it was the distro that got me off windows.
Posted April 22, 2016
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hummer010: This release marks nearly a decade that Linux has been my primary OS. It was the Dapper Drake (6.06) that finally put windows into second place for me. I haven't used Ubuntu for a few years now, but it was the distro that got me off windows.
Ubuntu was also the first distro I used before quitting Windows :D

I did try Red Hat Linux (before the RHEL and Fedora split, if I have my facts straight) in the early, early 2000s but I couldn't get a handle on it then.
Posted April 22, 2016
Ok but when will you quit Linux?
Posted April 22, 2016
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hummer010: This release marks nearly a decade that Linux has been my primary OS. It was the Dapper Drake (6.06) that finally put windows into second place for me. I haven't used Ubuntu for a few years now, but it was the distro that got me off windows.
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JudasIscariot: Ubuntu was also the first distro I used before quitting Windows :D

I did try Red Hat Linux (before the RHEL and Fedora split, if I have my facts straight) in the early, early 2000s but I couldn't get a handle on it then.
I think it was the first Distro for most of us. But the Unity desktop was the one thing that finally pushed away from Ubuntu (version 12.04).
Post edited April 22, 2016 by Matruchus
Posted April 22, 2016
<thumbs up>
Posted April 22, 2016
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hummer010: This release marks nearly a decade that Linux has been my primary OS. It was the Dapper Drake (6.06) that finally put windows into second place for me. I haven't used Ubuntu for a few years now, but it was the distro that got me off windows.
It was Kubuntu 7.04 for me. I was in high school, not so sure what I was doing. Installed it on an old computer in the library. The librarian was... not so happy about it.

I know JudasIscariot will disagree, but Unity is my main reason to stick with Ubuntu. First versions had rough edges, but I enjoyed it once it was ported to Compiz (still running it behind the scenes).
I really fell in love with this desktop environment after breaking a mouse and having to use my PC with a keyboard only, for a few days.
Unity has an amazing set of default hotkeys. Start a Unity session, hold the "super" key and see for yourself :)
Posted April 22, 2016
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mrkgnao: [...] Thespian*, [...]
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