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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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mrkgnao: [...] Thespian*, [...]
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HunchBluntley: *?
He had an asterisk in the name for a couple of years, until GOG asked him to remove it, as it broke all sorts of things, once they launched the new account system.
Posted April 22, 2016
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Nepenthes: 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 :)
This is the first version of Ubuntu I've used in years, and now i'm also in love with Unity.

The initial version of it was actually what made me stop using Ubuntu, i'm glad I went back and gave it another try.
Post edited April 22, 2016 by MikeMaximus
Posted April 22, 2016
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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 started on Red Hat 6, hated it & switched back to Windowz, then got RH 7.2, used it but switched back to M$, a while later got First Fedora Core 5 used till OpenSUSE 9.1 (methinks) came out, but sadly had to move back to Windowz in 2010 for work reasons. Now on Mint 17.3.

4 months Windowz free.

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clarry: Ok but when will you quit Linux?
When there is something better.
Posted April 22, 2016
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te_lanus: wonder if GOG would support this release: http://i.imgur.com/OwR1l7c.jpg

Ok I'll go sitt in the naughty corner
Heh, that was my first linux distro - on a desktop without internet access. I went back to Windows for awhile after that. :)
Posted April 22, 2016
Ubuntu supported by GoG?

How about "Linux supported by GoG"? I don't like Ubuntu too much and would prefer a more general approach. How about Debian and Arch or others?
Posted April 22, 2016
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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.
My first distro that I installed was Mandrake 7.1 sometime mid-2000. I dual-booted Mandrake for a long time. Then slackware. Then gentoo. Then Ubuntu. 6.06 was the first time that Linux became the default OS though. And before long, I didn't have windows installed at all. I bounced back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian for years until I finally switch to Arch a couple years ago.
Posted April 22, 2016
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HunchBluntley: *?
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mrkgnao: He had an asterisk in the name for a couple of years, until GOG asked him to remove it, as it broke all sorts of things, once they launched the new account system.
Oh. I thought maybe you appended the asterisk because of some scandal with him taking posting-enhancing drugs, which tarnished his accomplishments in the forums.
(And are you talking about the most recent new account system? Because I don't remember seeing him really active here, and I started hanging around here more than a year and a half ago -- well before the most recent account overhaul.)
Posted April 22, 2016
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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.
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hummer010: My first distro that I installed was Mandrake 7.1 sometime mid-2000. I dual-booted Mandrake for a long time. Then slackware. Then gentoo. Then Ubuntu. 6.06 was the first time that Linux became the default OS though. And before long, I didn't have windows installed at all. I bounced back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian for years until I finally switch to Arch a couple years ago.
Oh I was a long-time Mint user after Ubuntu's Unity drove me mad. I then noticed how annoying it was with Mint not getting basic software updates in its repos until they updated the actual release (so 17.1 to 17.2 in order to get some much-needed updates) so I switched to Arch-for-casuals AKA Antergos :D
Post edited April 22, 2016 by JudasIscariot
Posted April 22, 2016
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fil-cat: Ubuntu supported by GoG?

How about "Linux supported by GoG"? I don't like Ubuntu too much and would prefer a more general approach. How about Debian and Arch or others?
Generic Linux support is tough to commit to. I don't mind them supporting Ubuntu and Mint. Odds are good, if it works on Ubuntu and Mint, it will work on Debian.

They've always been pretty distro-agnostic. Initially with tarballs, and now with the installer. Definitely better than just providing .deb's.
Posted April 22, 2016
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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.
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hummer010: My first distro that I installed was Mandrake 7.1 sometime mid-2000. I dual-booted Mandrake for a long time. Then slackware. Then gentoo. Then Ubuntu. 6.06 was the first time that Linux became the default OS though. And before long, I didn't have windows installed at all. I bounced back and forth between Ubuntu and Debian for years until I finally switch to Arch a couple years ago.
My first distro was also Mandrake, in late of '99 or early '00. Got the disc as an attachment to a French-language Linux magazine. Dual booted with Windows 98 SE for a while, then dropped Linux when I got hold of Windows 2000, only to take it up again a few years later with virtual machines, and finally as my only on-metal OS.
Posted April 22, 2016
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te_lanus: wonder if GOG would support this release: http://i.imgur.com/OwR1l7c.jpg

Ok I'll go sitt in the naughty corner
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TheCycoONE: Heh, that was my first linux distro - on a desktop without internet access. I went back to Windows for awhile after that. :)
I got it from a friend who bought it new, he installed it and a week later donated it to me. I have the CD somewhere (I think) but do have the ISO and the Manual
Posted April 22, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Oh I was a long-time Mint user after Ubuntu's Unity drove me mad. I then noticed how annoying it was with Mint not getting basic software updates in its repos until they updated the actual release (so 17.1 to 17.2 in order to get some much-needed updates) so I switched to Arch-for-casuals AKA Antergos :D
Unity was something that drove me to Debian. Eventually though, I came around to Gnome 3, and then tried Unity again (maybe around 12.04?), and it wasn't as bad as I had remembered.

Now I've gone more minimilast, and just use i3.

I really do love the rolling release. Sure things break sometimes, but there's no waiting for the next "big thing". Arch is generally pretty quick picking up new versions of stuff, and also pretty quick fixing stufff when it does break.
Posted April 22, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Oh I was a long-time Mint user after Ubuntu's Unity drove me mad. I then noticed how annoying it was with Mint not getting basic software updates in its repos until they updated the actual release (so 17.1 to 17.2 in order to get some much-needed updates) so I switched to Arch-for-casuals AKA Antergos :D
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hummer010: Unity was something that drove me to Debian. Eventually though, I came around to Gnome 3, and then tried Unity again (maybe around 12.04?), and it wasn't as bad as I had remembered.

Now I've gone more minimilast, and just use i3.

I really do love the rolling release. Sure things break sometimes, but there's no waiting for the next "big thing". Arch is generally pretty quick picking up new versions of stuff, and also pretty quick fixing stufff when it does break.
I just stay away from the Testing repo on my install and restrict anything from AUR to non-critical non-system packages so in case something breaks, it's nothing major :)

edit: I have i3 installed and set up although not "riced" but I went back to GNOME for now since i3 and games don't always mix :) I do love the utility of i3 though, two windows right next to each other, the light weight of it all, it was worth learning how to set it up :)
Post edited April 22, 2016 by JudasIscariot
Posted April 22, 2016
Unity was not so good at the beginning. It was also rather different so many users needed time to accustom ourselves.
Posted April 22, 2016
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mrkgnao: He had an asterisk in the name for a couple of years, until GOG asked him to remove it, as it broke all sorts of things, once they launched the new account system.
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HunchBluntley: Oh. I thought maybe you appended the asterisk because of some scandal with him taking posting-enhancing drugs, which tarnished his accomplishments in the forums.
That goes without saying.

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HunchBluntley: (And are you talking about the most recent new account system? Because I don't remember seeing him really active here, and I started hanging around here more than a year and a half ago -- well before the most recent account overhaul.)
My mistake. Checked my chats with him (the two that survived...) and it wasn't upon launching the new account system, but rather upon launching the new login screen (mid-2014).
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