Oh nice, Blind has some great DF vids. I’m sure this game wont quite have the same depth but should be fun for awhile.

That’s a bit dramatic.
Also it isn’t just the fact it’s a ready to use pre-built but it is very low power, very quiet and smaller than standard SFF builds.
Even if you do like building your own desktops it’s hard to compete on those points for a living room PC.

Audacious is my favorite music player and it still supports the old winamp skins for those feeling nostalgic. It does tagging fine, not sure if there is a lyrics plugin but it does support tons of codecs and net radio streaming.

Even rox-filer from 1999 had an easy way to do this!

I found this completely maddening when I had a folder full of random videos with various codecs. I had a video player installed that could handle all of them but half of them would open in one video player, a few in another and the rest tried to open in a web browser and failed.

What that needs is a smoke animation that starts as soon as your core temps get too high.

Project Zomboid - harsh learning curve but fun survival
Avorion - Space combat and trading sim with block-building for custom ships.
Dwarf Fortress - very hard learning curve but you can sink thousands of hours into it and it will still surprise you.
Valheim - easy to start but difficulty scales fast as you explore

Or if you don’t mind proton some great survival/builders are:
Raft
Abiotic Factor
Satisfactory

Years ago I bought both a Steam Controller1 and a Logitech F310. The steam controller struggled to work at all outside of steam, was uncomfortable to use for any extended time and half the games I owned needed a ton of setup to be playable.

Despite being cheaper the Logitech worked with everything, required zero setup and is comfortable for hours. I sold my steam controller and am still happily using the F310.

Users didn’t flock to zsnes because it was the most accurate, they used it because it completely nailed the user interface for loading, saving, input, and configuration.

Looks like there are already interesting projects coming out of the de-compile like an unofficial android launcher:
https://github.com/Ekyso/StS2-Launcher

You are allowed to charge for most libre-licensed software, but of course in practice if it’s popular enough somebody else will just build it and undercut you.

I do wish there were more institutions funding FOSS work though it can be hard to measure the benefits and progress for individual projects.

Yeah I guess you could argue that not encrypting or obfuscating the binary makes it a bit faster to create a pirated version but it doesn’t really effect piracy rates beyond that.
I’m just happy to see a FOSS engine being noticed as important to the game’s success.

Yeah unfortunate. At least the first comments there corrected them.

You know the “vibes” of different models - when to use

Would that be a vibe-rater?

Debian is great, though I do wish they’d make it easier for new users to find their unofficial live image/installers since booting the desktop of your choice with no hassle is great:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/

…and this is the reason I added this to my root .bashrc:
export PS1="\h:\$(realpath .)\$ "
no more following symlinks on a remote mount and forgetting about it.

There have been some efforts to mitigate this by adding warnings where appropriate. But that doesn’t stop certain people from ignoring those warnings and typing “Yes, do as I say!” and bricking their install anyway.

Are you going to notice a decent performance improvement? Probably not unless your card or drivers are currently not working properly.

Will driver updates and configuration be a lot less of a hassle? Most likely yes!

If your controller works in steam you can install RetroArch in steam and it should work there too.

Great response, which also helps to answer one of the first questions from non-tech users: which anti-virus do I download for Linux?