I’ve been using XFCE for so long that it feels really awkward when I have to use Gnome or KDE.

XFCE is solid, reliable, stable, unobtrusive, lean, responsive.

It is also the reason I’ve not used Wayland yet.

I prefer to buy GOG when possible, Steam second. I even have some duplicated titles across vendors.

Excellent that they don’t engage in Nintendo level community hostility and at least let people who care about old games preserve them.

Stream goes one step further and actively maintains their legacy games playable. That is commitment.

Wii was the only console I ever bought. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse, so consoles were never really my focus.

I had a lot of fun with it, it had some amazing games that made good use of the controllers. It was a great family console that even older people or people that don’t usually play could use.

It was also great at running old school emulators for other consoles (SNES, Genesis) after some tinkering.

It also drove home my main hate regarding consoles: they are closed systems, owned not by you but by the manufacturer. The games were and still are expensive, unlike PCs where games get cheaper over time. They can also disable the servers providing services for your console (news channel, weather channel) when they feel like you should move on and buy their next console.

So I won’t buy another console again, even if I still love my Wii, that I power on occasionally.

You’d expect Microsoft to have figured out how to copy Linux update methods, we have a lot of them to choose from and some are actually decent.

I’m gonna go with Tom’s Root Boot. Or maybe the father of all live distros, Knoppix.

Someone gave me a PowerMac and of course I had to try to run Linux. It was an interesting experience, it would boot to MacOS and then run the Yellow Dog bootloader. Couldn’t get it to boot directly. That little experiment showed me how tightly Apple controlled what would run on Apple machines back then.

Good old Smoothie. Served me well back then. I think it went commercial at some point.

I posted from Boost for Lemmy, but formatted nothing.

52001. Brb.

Both end songs are on my playlist, I love it when the randomize function picks them up. You could say it is a triumph.

I’m still playing this game today. Undoubtedly my favorite game.

I’ve been playing Eldritch. Friggin frustrating game. Ok, just one more go.

I do. I use a Pi-Hole at home along with an adblocker, but I’m not always home.

I’m fine with hack-a-day. YouTube requires me to sit through some ads, watch a sometimes que long intro, cut to the sponsors, more rambling, finally a couple of seconds that answer the title question, and then the obligatory “like and subscribe”. Nah.

I vote with my wallet by buying indie games or old discounted single player AAA games. This also means I can game on a crappy machine. Being a retrogamer also helps. I literally have more games to play than time to live.

The bottom of the top.

Sorry for the rough tone, it’s been a long week.

The question is not that it has always been that way. The question is that different systems do things differently and one must take time to learn it.

If I would use an Apple system I’d have to learn how things are done on it. Of course you can always compare different approaches, but take time to understand why the differences exist.

When I use Windows I often miss the middle click copy, but I’m not saying window copy paste is broken for the lack of it.

Again, sorry for being harsh. A vacation is very much overdue for me.

1. Tries to use Windows conventions on Linux, without bothering to learn the differences. A 30 second Google search would suffice.
2. Fails.
3. Posts a rant blaming Linux for “not working properly”.