steinbitglis: It's going to take some time still, but I will see what I can do about the situation. We do have a linux machine at the office after all.

LinuxFire: The community Linux is made up of 100% former users Windows.

Dogmaus: It might be worth going over the ugly graphics

Dogmaus: Thank you for mentioning the demo! I guess it was too much of a hassle to upload it on GOG XD Same as for Batbarian, why make a demo but not let customers of a store know it exists I wonder. What are in your opinion other games that are using this setting recently? I'm thinking of Ticket to Ride but that's originally a tabletop game. I can also think of 80 Days and Tooth and Tail.

kud13: Off the top of my head (...)

Dogmaus: Thank you, very interesting. Maybe you are referring to Secret Goverment. And I searched for the new Spiders game, Stellrising, and it fits perfectly, french revolution, electricity. It makes me think of a text based game the Frankenstein Wars. in which the French Revolution is fought with dr. Frankenstein life creatin discovery, so dead soldiers are still fighting as long as the brain is not too damaged to revive them. This also brings up the moral question: do you have the right to do this to your dead comrades, even if it helps saving lives between your army
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cubusgames.TheFrankensteinWars&hl=de&gl=US?

GOG.com: Mesmer is now available DRM-free on GOG.COM!

steinbitglis: We do have a linux machine at the office after all.

Dogmaus: It might be worth going over the ugly graphics but It's like they turned Teslagrad into Animal Crossing rubbish. World to the West was still bearable to look at, but here they really tried every trick in the hat to make it uglier than one might conceive. Even those super deformed heads, maybe they thought that it would play down the potential seriousness of the political theme? Political Animals managed to be kawaii, colourful and modern without having such stupid and bad graphics.

gogtrial34987: I'm sorry to hear that.
FWIW, when I started with Linux, back when, I just downloaded a semi-random distro, installed it, and anytime I encountered any problem, I'd find a solution with a few short online searches. After a year or two, I could determine for myself what I cared about in a Linux distribution based on personal experience, did research based on that, and have never looked back.
I wouldn't know how to get started in any other way, but people here on the forum seem positive about the work adamhm has put into his beginner's guide for Linux Mint (that's for Mint 19, not certain if he's done one for Mint 20 yet), so people willing to provide helpful advice certainly do exist.

gogtrial34987: I semi-regularly post on new release threads for games without a Linux version which look interesting, to ask if a Linux version is possible. I try to always do so friendly and respectfully, mostly with the goal of letting developers know that there's interest, since for developers who're on the fence about it, this can make the difference between putting in the time, or not. And if they say it's not in the cards, then I wish them luck with their game, and happily return to the abundance of other games that do just work on Linux.
Since I do this, I also pay attention to other similar posts by Linux users. I've seen posts I'd classify as "complaining" (mostly due to understandable frustration when a Linux version is available at Steam, but not DRM-free on gog) - but I'd describe the vast majority of such posts as friendly and respectful, same as what I'm striving for.
I wonder how much of your characterization is colored by your earlier bad experiences, and how much of it is perception due to "tone" coming over badly in text.

gogtrial34987: I think there's very few Linux users who consider themselves to be part of a Linux "community". Linux is just an OS. My interest align slightly with those of other Linux users in that we all benefit from even more games being available, but that's about it. (Philosophically I of course align strongly with some underlying Linux and open source principles, but these in themselves aren't exactly things I've ever seen much online community around either.)

Yes, there are fanboys using Linux, same as there are for any other OS, and yes, these fanboys consider it important which distro is most popular, but eh, what can you do about it? The "fragmentation" between distributions is something I consider a strength - there's near infinite choice. If you're willing to put in the time, there's a perfect distro for everything you care about - and if you aren't, then you can pick one of the mainstream ones which comes closest, and tinker with the things that don't quite match your personal vision of how things should be.

As for the arguments happening in the comments on youtube videos: You're talking about comments on youtube videos! The subject of the videos is entirely orthogonal to that. (relevant xkcd) ;P

Anyway, with apologies to the developer of this lovely looking game, I think that's quite enough derailing of this thread from me. :)

RedRagan: of personal experience

darktjm: I'm a former Amiga user. I never switched to Windows. In kind of a reverse way ,these last couple of years have made me think that I should switch to Windows so I don't have to deal with so much frustration every day. I never became a fan of Linux the way I was a fan of the Amiga (and C64 before that), but I never saw any decent alternative.

eiii: So Mesmer does have a (64bit?) Linux version on GOG and only the system requirements are missing, right?

Snalin: Both 32 and 64-bit!