Very Good point on teh Licencing of Steam forgot about that.. In that case, I will change my mind and go for dropping the games.. virtually everyone i know who uses Xubuntu (or any linux distro) install the game they want and very rarely use the one already installed. Regards Dave
> On 28 January 2015 at 09:17 Pasi Lallinaho <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would drop all games altogether. > > I don't know how many play simple desktop games in 2015, but I would imagine > its a lesser number than browser-based game players. Ultimately, it's > definitely less than people who use social media... That being said, I'm sure > people will rather log in to Facebook/you-name-it when installing rather than > play a game of Minesweeper. > > After installation, it's easy enough to install games from the repositories; > and you get what you like too. > > Dave, I don't know about potential licensing issues, but even without them, > shipping Steam isn't sensible with any distribution. Only the amount of data > we would need to ship with every download is beyond insanity – just to install > a few games the user might or might not play once, let alone talking about > several times... And who could guarantee Steam/the games even work on their > boxes? > > Cheers, > Pasi > > On 28/01/15 11:02, Dave wrote: > > > > I would agree, that only one or two of the existing games. > > > (First thing I do is install the games I actually use). > > > > This may get me shot down :-) , but how about including the steam > > installer undergame with just one or two games.. > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > On 28 January 2015 at 08:08 Jackson Doak <[email protected]> > > > > > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I think having some default games is important, but we don't need > > > more that minesweeper + 1 other > > > > > > On 28 Jan 2015 18:55, "Elfy" < [email protected] > > > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Discussion started on the subject of removing games from > > > > > > > the install at > > > > the last meeting, taking this to the list for more comments. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > xubuntu-devel mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > > > > > -- > > > xubuntu-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » http://open.knome.fi/ > Leader of the Shimmer Project » http://shimmerproject.org/ > Ubuntu member, Xubuntu Website lead » http://xubuntu.org/ >
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