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Everyone I know who isn't a developer looks for the standard windows
98 games when they get stuck on my linux machines ... minesweeper
& solitaire. Not sure if that's worth anything, though.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/28/2015 11:33 AM, Bruno Augusto
Clemente de Assis wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I think we should keep at least one or two games.
Cut them off wouldn't be nice. Still there is people who play
games in desktop, i'm one of them, although not frequently. +1
to (<span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Solitaire,
Minesweeper, Chess) they are extremely useful when your
internet is off or you are waiting for someone.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-28 13:17 GMT-02:00 Dave Dodge <span
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class="">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:17:46AM +0200, Pasi
Lallinaho wrote:<br>
> shipping Steam isn't sensible with any distribution.
Only the amount<br>
> of data we would need to ship with every download is
beyond insanity<br>
> – just to install a few games the user might or might
not play once,<br>
> let alone talking about several times... And who
could guarantee<br>
> Steam/the games even work on their boxes?<br>
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</span>It's even worse than it sounds, because the way Steam
solves the<br>
compatibility issue is by supplying its own Linux runtime.
It<br>
basically has its own /lib and /usr/share directories hidden
away, so<br>
that its games can use those instead of relying on the OS to
provide<br>
everything.<br>
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This makes it easier to package games for Steam delivery,
but it<br>
requires a lot of space. On my system ~/.local/Steam is
currently<br>
around 2 gigabytes for the client and runtime(s), *not*
counting any<br>
games.<br>
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-Dave Dodge/<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dododge@dododge.net">dododge@dododge.net</a><br>
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