Posted April 23, 2021
I put the following review on GOG which was put down by GOG:
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I own Rainswept, which is OK and working ... so I was shocked when looking at this game:
The Demo is Windows + Mac only - so we can not test it ourselves.
Currently one can read "NVIDIA GPUs WITH CLOSED SOURCE DRIVERS ONLY" and
no one can test if AMD (or Intel if someone still use this) will work - maybe under
some special conditions.
As Nvidia never participated to Linux/Mesa development for desktop GPUs
(except in some corner cases), it is Windows only with a fat proprietary
binary driver under GNU/Linux distros with kernel-part, main X.org part
and entire Mesa part, so this has nothing to do with Linux or Mesa at
all - so no Linux card. It may work with luck, but there is no real support
(thus "tainted" was introduced - driven by Red Hat developers - to mark
that support on GNU/Linux distros is not possible as source code
is not available in mainline so is not maintained and thus driver will
break on new kernel frequently; one may check LKML with a lot of
interesting threads about Nvidia problems) and going to Steam forum
there is much noise. So for real Linux users (not on a Windows setting
with Nvidia GPU) a demo IS necessary - but unfortunately GOG does not
care for Linux and not even answers support tickets ... Thus this heads
up. If this is solved I would have a look at it myself - but under these
conditions it would be a waste of time. So to the devs: Please make the
Linux demo available on GOG - and I am sure there are several
experienced testers on GOG - me included - to help solve the issue.
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So I have to put this information here so those who even visit the forum
(a review is much better visible) can get this information.
I have called this putting down of my review as censorship as there is a mass
of reviews of people not owning a single GOG game (and GOG has in most
cases different versions from other platforms) or don't give any argument.
So please comment here if you think that this is a review for Linux gamers
(as a heads up) or if you consider this as not appropriate as a review at all.
Thanks in advance to all commenters below this posting - and I am happy to learn.
Currently I just got opinions that this is not OK. If so, GOG should learn form this.
And this can only happen by gamers ... and yes, due to my ticket I have not contributed
to other threads about non existent Linux support on GOG and Boycotting GOG, e.g.:
* https://www.gog.com/forum/general/does_gog_still_support_linux
* https://www.gog.com/forum/general/boycotting_gog_2021
I will put a lot of facts to such threads but wait a little for GOG support to answer.
As side note to be fair: the tone of the ticket was OK - but calling this my ticket is not correct -
my ticket from beginning of 02/2021 was not answered - after informing me that now someone
is working on the ticket and I would soon get a response there was short thereafter a message
if I want to close it - and never heard of that ticket again with subject:
"No Linux support and generally bad quality concerning Linux games", support ticket ID #993749.
So I demand an explanation in the new ticket about putting down my review: ticket ID #1039690,
and to explain what the status of MY TICKET is.
But as the supporter asked me to contact the developers, I will do so directly after completing this forum post
and mail the developers ... and as said before "Rainswept" is a real Linux game - so there is hope.
So if the situation can be improved or I would get some info while AMD and Intel would not work (even though
I could not imagine any reason - Linux on desktop is currently AMD centered) I will put it in this thread.
===
I own Rainswept, which is OK and working ... so I was shocked when looking at this game:
The Demo is Windows + Mac only - so we can not test it ourselves.
Currently one can read "NVIDIA GPUs WITH CLOSED SOURCE DRIVERS ONLY" and
no one can test if AMD (or Intel if someone still use this) will work - maybe under
some special conditions.
As Nvidia never participated to Linux/Mesa development for desktop GPUs
(except in some corner cases), it is Windows only with a fat proprietary
binary driver under GNU/Linux distros with kernel-part, main X.org part
and entire Mesa part, so this has nothing to do with Linux or Mesa at
all - so no Linux card. It may work with luck, but there is no real support
(thus "tainted" was introduced - driven by Red Hat developers - to mark
that support on GNU/Linux distros is not possible as source code
is not available in mainline so is not maintained and thus driver will
break on new kernel frequently; one may check LKML with a lot of
interesting threads about Nvidia problems) and going to Steam forum
there is much noise. So for real Linux users (not on a Windows setting
with Nvidia GPU) a demo IS necessary - but unfortunately GOG does not
care for Linux and not even answers support tickets ... Thus this heads
up. If this is solved I would have a look at it myself - but under these
conditions it would be a waste of time. So to the devs: Please make the
Linux demo available on GOG - and I am sure there are several
experienced testers on GOG - me included - to help solve the issue.
===
So I have to put this information here so those who even visit the forum
(a review is much better visible) can get this information.
I have called this putting down of my review as censorship as there is a mass
of reviews of people not owning a single GOG game (and GOG has in most
cases different versions from other platforms) or don't give any argument.
So please comment here if you think that this is a review for Linux gamers
(as a heads up) or if you consider this as not appropriate as a review at all.
Thanks in advance to all commenters below this posting - and I am happy to learn.
Currently I just got opinions that this is not OK. If so, GOG should learn form this.
And this can only happen by gamers ... and yes, due to my ticket I have not contributed
to other threads about non existent Linux support on GOG and Boycotting GOG, e.g.:
* https://www.gog.com/forum/general/does_gog_still_support_linux
* https://www.gog.com/forum/general/boycotting_gog_2021
I will put a lot of facts to such threads but wait a little for GOG support to answer.
As side note to be fair: the tone of the ticket was OK - but calling this my ticket is not correct -
my ticket from beginning of 02/2021 was not answered - after informing me that now someone
is working on the ticket and I would soon get a response there was short thereafter a message
if I want to close it - and never heard of that ticket again with subject:
"No Linux support and generally bad quality concerning Linux games", support ticket ID #993749.
So I demand an explanation in the new ticket about putting down my review: ticket ID #1039690,
and to explain what the status of MY TICKET is.
But as the supporter asked me to contact the developers, I will do so directly after completing this forum post
and mail the developers ... and as said before "Rainswept" is a real Linux game - so there is hope.
So if the situation can be improved or I would get some info while AMD and Intel would not work (even though
I could not imagine any reason - Linux on desktop is currently AMD centered) I will put it in this thread.
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