Unit tests aren’t intended to find bugs, they’re intended to prove correctness. There should be a separate QA process for finding bugs, which involves integration testing. When QA inevitably finds a bug, the unit tests get updated with that case (and any similar cases).

only cover cases that you know will work

And that’s what code reviews are for. If your tests don’t sufficiently cover the logic, the change should be rejected until they do. It’s a lot easier to verify the tests cover the logic if the tests are submitted w/ the logic changes.

I did it in a few weeks. I basically swapped discs while playing games, before going to work, before bed, etc. It was tedious, but I got them all.

Now when I buy one, I’ll rip it first before watching.

Are you an IT contractor or something?

AWS is the modern IBM.

That’s basically why we use it at work. I hate it, but that’s how things are.

Absolutely this. We are based out of one region, but also have a second region as a quick disaster recovery option, and we have people 24/7 who can manage the DR process. We’re not big enough to have live redundancy, but big enough that an hour of downtime would be a big deal.

It shouldn’t, but it does. The person who writes the code cares more about its correctness, so I trust them to write better tests.

But I don’t wanna.

Eh, GOG isn’t a nonprofit or anything, so there’s no guarantee they’ll use your money for the cause you want.

Go for it if you want, just remember that GOG is a for-profit entity at the end of the day and don’t owe you anything for your donation.

Why not just buy a game instead? That doesn’t provide as much money to GOG, but it also rewards game devs for providing DRM-free games.

No, if there’s nothing, it’s not using one of the big DRM systems.

There’s a good chance it doesn’t use any DRM, but the only way to know for sure is to install it and try to run it without Steam (rename Steam dir and Steam exe just in case). Some games use Steam DRM or otherwise rely on Steam, so this is to rule those out too.

Yeah, I didn’t have a Steam account until they came to Linux back in 2013 or so. Back then, I bought most of my games through Humble Bundle since most had Linux support, and the rest direct from the dev’s website (e.g. I bought Minecraft and Factorio around their public alpha/beta release). I played a few games through WINE, but not many since it was a pain.

Steam was a game changer, and they didn’t even have Proton yet, so I only bought Linux-native games through them. Being able to finally find games that supported Linux easily and keep them all on an account was amazing! And then they added Proton for the Steam Machine launch, and I could finally play many Windows games as well!

In that time, what has GOG done for me? Offline installers suddenly doesn’t sound as impressive, especially since they don’t come with a compatibility layer, so I’ll have to go mess with WINE directly again to use them for Windows games. With Steam, I can copy the installed files for most games and it’ll work without Steam running, so I can get 90% of the value GOG provides (my “installer” can be a tarball) with a small amount of effort, and also get all of the extra value Steam provides, so why pick GOG?

Here’s what would change my mind, in rough order of preference:

1. GOG brings Galaxy to Linux with a WINE compatibility layer that works with local installer backups
2. 1, but without support for local installer backups
3. 2, but offloads the WINE support to another project, say by adding Steam entries or handing off to Lutris or Heroic or something
4. Officially recognize and support Heroic (or another launcher) on the download page for Galaxy (e.g. “until Galaxy comes to Linux, use Heroic, which is officially supported by GOG support”); the closest they have now is a Heroic affiliate link

I mostly want some indication that GOG cares about Linux gamers. Valve has gone out of their way to support Linux, EGS has done the same to not support Linux, and GOG is somewhere in the middle. I like GOG’s principles here, I just need some level of actual support from them.

Oh sure. I’m just saying the computer interface presented as “futuristic” doesn’t look enjoyable to work with.

Everyone get ready for sieges instantly overrunning your fortifications and releasing the clowns by battering the wrong door and other !!FUN!! stuff.

Boiling time isn’t related to original potato size, it’s related to the size of pieces you cut. So the first half is irrelevant and the second half is overly verbose.

It’s just this person from what I can tell.

That’s fine, and I’d probably say the same about yours.

My point in all of this is to say that changes should be gradual, and policy makers should adjust based on the results. The main issue w/ people like Brownbeck and Trump is they don’t do that, but instead go full steam ahead on whatever agenda they have planned. Rapid changes in any direction are generally bad in the short to medium term. I think we should steer the ship toward personal liberty, you may disagree, but hopefully we can agree that policy should be an iterative process where we take two steps forward and one step back based on the data.

Whether it’s good or not is irrelevant. The fact is that it exists as the recommended way to install games, and it’s not available for my platform even years after it was released. What does that say about me and my platform? If I have an issue with a game, will they help? If they’re unwilling to support their flagship launcher, why would they help with a game?

Steam works on my platform and has for over 10 years, and they’re constantly making improvements specific to my platform. GOG has DRM free games. Is that enough reason to prefer GOG over Steam? Most of my Steam games are DRM-free, so my answer is no.

I’ve used minigalaxy in the past as well. There are solutions, sure.

I’m more rankled by GOG not even giving a nod to Linux users and going out of their way to court Windows users. I understand the economics here, but I would very much appreciate something from them. When they had a user voice (not sure if they still do? A quick search didn’t find it), the top requested feature was Galaxy support for Linux, and we’ve gotten nothing from them, except I guess a deal w/ the creator of Heroic for a referral revenue share on game sales (similar to sales through streamer links and whatnot). That’s it. That feels like a bit of a slap in the face.

Eh, when someone says “private investigator,” I subconsciously assume there could be a group involved, and not one person. If I hire a tax preparer, there are probably multiple people involved (the person preparing the tax docs, the accountants auditing those docs, people auditing their software, etc).

If someone says “private investigators,” I assume they contacted multiple agencies, perhaps on multiple occasions.

I’m more like 90/10, because GOG still refuses to port their Galaxy client to Linux. At this point I don’t even really want to use it since Heroic is good enough, but it really sucks feeling like a second-class citizen, compared to Steam, which goes out of its way to provide a top tier experience on Linux. I’d even be fine with them adopting Heroic as an officially-supported client (provide links and whatnot on the website next to Galaxy), I just need some indication that they care.

Most games I own on Steam are DRM-free anyway, so I’d be supporting GOG more out of principle than anything.