I don’t think btop even records to any output file, it’s more of a “taskmanager with graphs” than a logging utility.

btop? it’s pretty customizable, if a bit too flashy (by default) to my liking. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop - should be available on repositories for most distros.

Defender is antimalware/antivirus. There at least used to be a separate firewall in windows, but not sure if it’s a part of defender or not.

Either way, “firewall” is traffic control, antimalware/virus is the execution guardian.

you can always add eg. a swap file later if needed - apparently not as good as a swap partition, but it is more flexible. With 48 GB of ram I hardly think you’re going to have issues, but that depends entirely on what do you do with the system.

Firewall isn’t really helping the system against you, it’s to block ousiders getting in - more or less.

install locations: if you just use what’s in mint’s repositories, you don’t really need to think about it. Out-of-repository stuff like steam games etc generally live in ~/.steam or so. Or in some dedicated path you configure in steam/whatever.

As for snap/flatpaks/whatever, haven’t used a single one. But in general: I’d favor the distribution’s repos, if at all possible for installs. If the app isn’t there, but is in snap… fine, I guess? As long as it’s managed by some kind of package manager for easy install/update/uninstall. But having to manually download and install from a website? Rather not, that’s when the maintenance becomes manual.

And of course, opinions are opionated. Your system, your rules. :P

is the game configured to use wine or proton? which version?

if I’m not mistaken, the game uses ddraw instead of d3d, so dxvk probably doesn’t help here.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082 - it seems like this is a fairly long standing issue. Though, apparently if you can blindly navigate through the menus, the game should work otherwise? Hardly ideal, though.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082#c181 - the later comments on the thread seem to have some solutions to get the game working “more properly”

edit: though, as the other comments have pointed out, devilutionx is probably the way to go. TIL about it as well.

even current steamdeck / steamos can run basically any desktop apps. I’ve seen some folks even run kdenlive (nle video editing app) on it, obvs using mouse&keyboard rather than the “gamepad”. While it’s gaming first ui, it does have a regular desktop too.

As for literally word/excel? Not sure, but doubt it. Reasonable alternatives like libreoffice or others? Absolutely.

Windows: repeated acts of footgun

Linux: …oooookay?

I used archinstall archsockbuy

damnit, ordered the wrong color socks AGAIN. Wish the arch wiki would have this documented.

seems like it, it’s one of the mascots shown on their website: https://supertuxkart.net/Discover

on that note, but at a bit of a tanget: apparently SuperTuxKart has football mode now

I haven’t checked it out yet, but it apparently came out in the fairly recent 1.5 patch - and it looks pretty similar, might scratch the same itch. Dunno how active the playerbase is.

it was a sad day when Wine removed their old support for 16bit games. Wine used to run eg. Castle of the Winds just fine, though admittedly there was a very minor graphical glitch with tiling, but the game worked fine.

Now I’m back to just running win3.1 in dosbox for the game :P

got to wonder what’s going on, got multiple email notifications today about updating the 10-13 version which was released few days ago. Seemingly the files on the releases-page got updated too

Me? It was one of the built-in themes. It was horrible, yes.

there’s only one true 3.1 theme:

Learning about random internet-users’ kinks…? I guess there’s worse ways to spend a friday :D

I’m not entirely in the know either, but I’m assuming it’s about holding a dick, and it’s some kind of domination/powerplay thing (like the “step on me, mommy”) that MANY on the internet seem to be into.

But, I’m just guessing.

when in doubt, assume it’s a sex thing. Seems to work with basically all of these “I LIED, instead of [x] we do [y]”.

Point & click, beer? I feel targeted, but damn if that doesn’t look like fun. Wishlisted so hard. Thanks for posting!

Depends. I’m still keeping win10 (but haven’t booted into it in months), just in case when on a game night something refuses to work on linux and I can just boot to windows and game with my friends. I’m not going to start troubleshooting then and there, doubly because in general alcohol is involved during those friday night gaming sessions.

The day for repurposing those partitions is coming closer though.