Take my word with a grain of salt, but as far as I understand with my limited knowledge, you do not own the content stored on the disc; however, you do own the physical medium itself. That is how game stores are allowed to sell you second hand games. They aren’t selling you the disc contents, they are selling you the disc. Regardless, readers, do your own research and don’t take the word of random people on Lemmy including myself.

How is the meme acknowledging that GOG installers are shared in groups? This doesn’t say anything about sharing anything in a group, other than “My game has no DRM, and yours does”

I game on Linux and mainly play games bought from GOG. Both GOG and Epic games are extremely easy to get working, and are as simple as downloading Heroic Games Launcher, signing into GOG and/or Epic, and choosing the game you want to download from your library. While it is possible to use the official GOG Galaxy client with Lutris and WINE, I personally don’t recommend it, as it’s quite a glitchy and laggy experience, and is only done by people who can’t live without GOG achievements. For GOG… just use Heroic. It’s just as easy to use as the official Galaxy client is on Windows and also supports cloud-saves.

I’ve never used Amazon, but Heroic also recently added downloading your Amazon Prime games as an option, which I imagine is just as easy to get working as GOG and Epic Games already are.

This part isn’t necessary, but if you want to play those games but launch them from Steam, you can add each game individually to Steam as a non-steam game through the Lutris or Heroic Games’ interface. A handy app I recommend, which I never hear people mention, is BoilR, which automatically adds all of your non-steam games in bulk into your Steam Library.

As for the EA App and Ubisoft Connect, I ditched them over a year ago due to not wanting to support the companies (same with Epic). I honestly don’t remember what the process was exactly for those launchers, but I do remember it was very easy to set up in Lutris.

Lastly, I’ve never used Battle.net either, but I’ve heard it’s quite easy to set up in Lutris.

I’m on Pop!_OS on a desktop screen, so part of the bottom of the logo is cut-off by the taskbar (it’s taller than on Windows). That’s why I was looking for an image without the logo. I hope Nintendo publishes one some day.

Thanks for that. Unfortunately that one is way blurrier for some reason compared to the official one, even though they are both 1080p.

The people saying to switch to Linux are half-joking, half-serious. Sometimes we can be a little too pushy by bringing up “just switch to Linux” too often, but usually we have good intentions for at least trying to encourage the switch, and it often-times does come from a place of care.

Truly Truly, I say unto you, install Linux; it’s what you really must do.

https://linuxmint.com/

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What video is this quoted from?

Ok thanks. I think I’ll do this then. I shouldn’t get bad omen because Pillager’s shouldn’t be spawning anyway. One problem though that I forgot about for some reason: The world I’ve already created has no strongholds in it because I disabled the generation of structures. As for the nether and end: I wasn’t planning on visiting the other dimensions in this world.

This sounds really good, and I would do it, but I am trying to disable monsters without disabling all mobs. If I wanted to disable mobs I would just use /gamerule DoMobSpawning false

Edit: Well, I watched through the video and near the end, the guy was flying around the world, and there were still some packs of animal mobs wandering the world. I don’t know if they spawned after he activated the mob switch or if they were already spawned prior or what. But if animals still stick around, then he’s just being confusing; because through the entire video he keeps saying that the contraption turns of “Mob” spawning, not “Monster” spawning. Animals are classified as mobs too in Minecraft terminology.

Great! Happy to have inspired you without even meaning to 😄

Thanks. This did technically stop the monsters from spawning, kind of. They still spawn, but teleport beneath the world within milliseconds, but long enough for me to see them appear and immediately disappear. So I tested this in a new creative world and set the time to midnight, and you can see dozens of monsters spawning on the screen and immediately flashing away. So the world is just full of flashing monsters everywhere and extremely distracting.

I have to agree with almost everything you’ve said. I felt like I was the only one who thought that the extent of the community backlash was unjust.

Thanks for the resources. I’ll look into it.

That’s really surprising to hear! I live in Australia and that may not have been available in stores here even back than… but maybe. Target is actually still around in Australia and a popular store.

I’d hate to select an ultra specific customized version that gets abandoned by the maintainers in a year or two, I generally run machines for about 8 years.

TLDR (Apologies for the crazy long comment): Basically, I say that if you want peace of mind the project isn’t going to be abandoned; choose one of the most popular distro’s and one of the most popular DE’s. And I reccomend a bunch of options for Distro’s and DE’s you might like to use.

That makes sense. If you want the peace of mind that the distro or Desktop Environment isn’t going to be abandoned in a couple of years; that’s why you go with one of the popular ones; they aren’t going away any time soon or the foreseeable future. The distro developers usually customise the included Desktop Environment a bit to cater to their specific audience. Choose a popular distro, and choose one of the officially maintained flavours they make available, rather then a community maintained one, which is much more likely to be abandoned after a couple years. Here’s an example of the popular desktop environments:

KDE Plasma has been around since 1998 & developed since 1996, and is regularly developed, improved, and updated.

Cinnamon has been around since 2011 and is developed by the Linux Mint distro developers; Linux Mint being one of the top 3 most popular Linux distributions; not going away anytime soon. It’s also regularly updated too. And since Linux Mint are the devs; It’s the main, most supported flavour available for Linux Mint.

GNOME I’m not a fan of it personally. It’s been around since 1999, developed since 1997; GNOME is associated with Ubuntu and is one of, if not the most popular desktop environments available; of course this is also regularly updated too, and not going away anytime soon.

Mate (pronounced mah-tay) has been around since 2011; it was forked from an old version of GNOME due to the backlash GNOME was getting at the time for drastic changes they were making to their own DE; and made for people who preferred the GNOME 2 design. Again: regularly worked on and updated

Budgie released in 2014 and is developed by Solus distro developers. In my opinion, it’s absolutely beautiful with it’s minimalistic yet modern visual design, but I can see why it wouldn’t be for everyone; still worth it to check out.

Why don’t you setup a Linux virtual machine on your Windows PC, install a bunch of different flavours of different distro’s, and try the different Desktop Environment’s out for yourself? You might surprise yourself and find one that you adore the look of. I know from experience that using the environments themselves is way different to simply looking at screenshots or watching video’s.

The best options for distro’s to try out imo are:

Linux Mint (Debian based; probably the best beginner friendly distro out there, just about everything is doable without the terminal)

Manjaro (Arch based; made to be an arch-like distro that’s a beginner-to-linux but familiar-with-computers, and average-user friendly distro. A common misconception is that it’s very unstable and prone to breakage: this is not true anymore and was more an issue in it’s early days)

Pop!_OS (Debian based; brilliant for gamers and average computer users; they use GNOME, but System76 (the devs) are working on their own Desktop Environment written from scratch to replace GNOME; last I checked, there haven’t been any screenshots revealed of it.

Those are my top picks but I know my small list is missing many others of the great and popular distro’s. Making sure you can have a system that’s supported for years to come is easy if you pick one of the popular distro’s. If you don’t want to update the system for years at a time; don’t choose a distro with a rolling-release update system (like Arch, Manjaro, Garuda, EndeavourOS etc. which is basically anything Arch-based) If that’s how you use your system; Linux Mint with the Cinnamon, Mate, or XFCE flavour is a perfect choice. And if you want to, you ARE able to install any other DE on Linux Mint even if it’s not officially supported, and you can have as many DE’s installed at once as you want; though that will all require the terminal.

Sorry about that. What do you think then? Would it be easier to develop first for Windows, and port second to Linux in order to get them working on all the old Windows versions, or the other way around?

I heard the name Linux from Minecraft being available on “Windows, Mac, & Linux” when I was maybe 12-13 (2014-15), but I never looked into it, and all I thought of it was it was some kind of really obscure operating system. I wondered why I’d never seen a Linux computer in tech stores. And Windows seemed perfectly fine, so why would I need to use it? “It probably has some crazy UI that nobody can understand”(except I didn’t know what ‘UI’ was at that age)

That’s back than… I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver now since mid 2021, and I’ve been on Manjaro for nearly 1 & a half years.

However, I’ve met barely anyone who even knows what “a Linux” is. I’ve met a guy who was only using Kali Linux because he wanted to hack or something; and a friend at my church who manages a lot of the technology and computers: him and his father tried using Ubuntu about 10 years ago when he was a late teen. Than there’s another guy at my church who, despite never having used Linux in his life; surprisingly new a lot about it and was able to help me solve a display issue I was having earlier this year. I’ve nearly gotten my Mum onto Linux Mint for her laptop 😂, because she really only makes documents, browses websites, and checks emails, and really doesn’t need to be paying for Windows & having updates forced on her regularly. As a matter of fact, I’m downloading it for her as I type.

Why worry about the fact that there’s lots of options that emulate the Mac look, when there are many options that don’t? My favourite Desktop Environment currently is KDE Plasma, which I use on Manjaro. It’s more like the Windows design but in my opinion way better, and of course ridiculously customisable (which is what KDE Plasma is known for, especially compared to Windows 10/11). Also the exit, minimize, and maximize buttons I for some reason absolutely love so much better than anything else I’ve seen (no, they look nothing like Mac). My other favourites are Budgie, Cinnamon, and Mate which are all great options. Budgie’s great for the minimalistic design while still looking very modern and clean. And besides, which DE’s are you talking about when you say they are emulating Mac? Most, if not all of them allow you change the “Red, Yellow, Green” buttons to the more traditional Windows look, and move them to the right side of the Window from the left.