I’ve used it in the past and its awesome. It works very well even on ancient hardware and is a fully functioning OS even if you never install it and just run it in live mode. Its basically a computer you can keep on your keychain and run on anything.

Elementallis! It is very heavily inspired by old school Zelda games, but does a pretty awesome job being fun in the ways those are.

The rain with the dramatic music at the beginning of Link to the Past is pretty awesome too.

This bugs me too and I’m glad I’m not the only one. You DO see it everywhere after getting annoyed at ChatGTP doing it.

I started with Ubuntu and then Mint, I don’t think the system files being modifiable is a huge issue, I don’t think many noobs are really doing much to mess with them. If you’re just looking for something that does your basic everyday things then its just installing the OS and then putting your apps on there.

I was not thrilled with Cosmic after upgrading Pop! but switching DEs on Linux is very easy so it wasn’t a huge issue. I think Cosmic could be cool given more development, it just needs time. Though Pop! making it their default seems like a bad idea for them, its one of the beginner friendly distros that always gets recommended to new Linux users and now that’s going to be their first impression.

Originally I switched just because I didn’t have a Windows install available and Linux was convenient enough to just download and stick on there. But then once I got used to using it I massively preferred it. I’m the opposite of what you’re describing, I don’t want “problem solving and tinkering”, I like Linux because it basically just does what I want it to do. Windows does what Microsoft wants it to do lol.

Its basically a Linux terminal for your phone that can run rsync, so it should work both ways.

I think you can do that with Termux on Android.

I’m currently using Pop!_OS, which is a great desktop distro.

I was using MX Linux a lot which is amazing for both times when you need a portable distro with lots of features and when you need something that will still run well on older machines.

I always assumed it was shorthand for an html close tag like </s>, so I’m going with “/s”.

Until markdown gets a sarcasm thing at least.

Substitute 1 with Zero Mission, which is a much better remake.

Pillars of Eternity, which I did not give a fair shot when I first tried it and am enjoying a lot more this go around and Baba is You.

It kind of works in Elder Scrolls games. You’re typically just some random dude getting roped into stuff you barely understand so it makes sense that you don’t have much of a sense of urgency. And the main quest usually has parts where you’re encouraged to go do other stuff to build up skills and join factions.

Yup, either through Termux or Round Sync

Rclone makes Cryptomator redundant since it has built in encryption, if you want it simple.

I really hate the Xbox system names.

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was an awesome game.

Basically when Windows became pay-per-install. PCs stopped coming with an install CD so if you needed to reset from scratch you couldn’t. I first tried Linux out of necessity because that was all I had to put on the machine in the house, and ended up never looking back.

Vagrant Story had a really cool swordfighting system.