Linux

How to play The Curse of Monkey Island on Linux

As I was always a LucasArts fan in the 90ties, I wanted to use my “free time” (thanks to the Corona lockdown) for playing this old classics.

I bought Monkey Island 1 + 2 on Steam - with the Proton helper, it starts all easy, out of the box.

Monkey Island 3 and 4 I was buying at Gog (it was cheaper) - no help here to get it running for Linux. (it will still run from Steam out of the box, afaik)

Getting a verified user on Github

sdfasdfdsa sfdsf xxxxxx When you create a new file directly on Github and push it to your branch, you will see in the commit, that this was done by an verified user.

If you push it from your command line, it normally looks like this:

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P.S. if you followed the tutorial, and something went wrong, it will look like this:

Which Linux Version is running

Sometimes you need to know, which Linux distro you are running, and especially, which version:

lsb_release -a

The answer will look like:

No LSB modules are available
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty