@hardpenguin

And finally give Kim that promotion.

Poor Harry 🤣

I am incredibly hyped for this game.

They actually poked fun at this in a Lower Decks episode.

@Serious_Table

You know for a fact the moment you give Kim a promotion, the quadrant is going to end.

Somebody watched that Lower Decks episode!

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I'm getting older and my eyes just aren't what they used to be.

That's why I'm still hoping they'll make a "Steambook", with the same hardware specifications as a Steamdeck but in a laptop form-factor and at least a 15" screen.

I don't have a television, so a console would be of little interest to me.

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Tried it. Didn't find the interface terribly intuitive. When I tried to use the prefix backup feature, it filled my entire drive partition to back up a prefix that was only 300MB in size. Uninstalled and never looked at it again.

Must have been early in its development.

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@Calinou

Personally, I used it to run the Drakan and 3DMark99 installers as these are 16-bit and are basically impossible to run as-is on modern Windows/Linux.

How odd. I just recently installed Drakan: Order of the Flame via Lutris in a manually created 64-bit prefix (wine-ge-8-26) set to Win10. I had no problems other than needing to launch the installer from setup.exe in a subfolder as the autorun executable wouldn't run. The Community Patch was an absolute must. I needed to enable dgvoodoo2 as well.

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@Pyrate

But I don't believe the governments will manage to find a way to take control of some of the actually useful cryptocurrencies.

No? You might want to take a closer look at the actions of the Canadian government and the RCMP during the Freedom Convoy protest. That might give you an idea of where things could go ...

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Have you ever noticed how any new solutions/alternatives just seem to add more middlemen? That is what is racking up the cost of everything ...

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I don't see cryptocurrencies as the solution. They're too unstable, for one thing. If they ever become big enough to be a serious concern, the governments will find a way to take control of them.

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So soon ...

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Linux Mint :wub:

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I have been a Linux Mint user since 2014 (ah, I remember Mint 13 Maya so fondly...). I use Mint for my daily driver to this day, although I am often a version or two behind the latest.

For gaming, I tested out a number of distros (Debian, Manjaro, Kubuntu, Pop!_OS) before finally coming back to Mint. I game on the XFCE edition while my daily driver is the Cinnamon edition. Pop!_OS remains my backup choice for gaming.

Like @Kimyrielle, I've found that I don't care for a rolling or even a semi-rolling release distro. I prefer the stability and control over updates that I get from Linux Mint.

I've never experienced the problems described by @Stella, in either the Cinnamon or XFCE editions. That being said, I would have recommended starting with the MATE edition until you were comfortable with Linux and all its quirks. It is the most stable of all of Mint's editions. Based on copious research and LM community advice, that was the edition I chose when I switched from Windows cold turkey. I moved to Cinnamon after I became comfortable with the Linux ecosystem.

Kubuntu is okay but, as much as I love the KDE Plasma desktop, it was just too unstable on an Optimus (dual GPU) based system. Manjaro KDE was the same.

I am still running XFCE 21.3 at the moment but I am looking forward to being able to move to Mint 22. I tried with the 22.0 point release but there were issues with the newer XFCE desktop and I couldn't get OpenMW to run, so I rolled back (quite smoothly) to 21.3. One of the flaws in the Mint upgrade process is that it doesn't update the PPA links to the ones compatible with the new version of the OS. At least, it didn't for me.

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This one caught my interest. I'm gonna have to try the demo!

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