Quoting: HohlraumI love what Fedora does but once I started using other package systems 25+ years ago it's really hard to give up the massive package repositories provided by deb and arch based distributions. Finally, they've tried for years to improve the speed of their package managers but they are terrible every time I give them a try.

A rewrite of dnf (dnf5 -> https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about.html) [External Link] is supposed to become default on Fedora 39. It can be installed on F38 too; though I believe it conflicts in undocumented ways with the stock dnf.

Allegedly it's faster, with less complicated cli options, etc.

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Merry Christmas & happy holidays to everyone.

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Cinnamon has a really good implementation of the 'exposé' view (though lacking per-app exposé which is the most useful mode, imho); I *believe* it's based on/forked from compiz's Expo & Scale effects, but works a lot smoother than they do on MATE.

One annoyance, though, is that you can't seem to turn off the windows fanning out per *desktop*, in desktop view -- which makes selecting a desktop with the mouse frustrating, because you end up 'raising' a window that you didn't intend to.

If I can find a way to turn that off, I'm even considering to switch to Cinnamon from Xfce.

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Quoting: Guestwoaah looks great

Yeah; I loved 'Race the Sun' back in the day (hard to believe it's been so long); & hoped they'd do a game like this.

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The Steam Deck is a game, of course; if it weren't it would've had a keyboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9VU1aJvTI [External Link]

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Quoting: Marlock

Quoting: wvstolzingI just recorded this by OBS, running on dosbox-staging; sound/video loaded from directly mounted cdrom: !Civ II advisors (early game video) [External Link]

Only fools run an empire without luxury! \o/

Yeah Elvis was absolutely the highlight when my buddies & I were obsessively playing this back in middle school: https://youtu.be/oFQDeYXq_iw?t=253 [External Link]

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Quoting: Marlockthe indeo5 video codec installer is a murderous disgrace, and the game is ruined by windows xp and later versions with their new window decoration methods

I just recorded this by OBS, running on dosbox-staging; sound/video loaded from directly mounted cdrom: !Civ II advisors (early game video) [External Link]

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Quoting: MarlockPPS: How do you folks get Civ2 to play nice on Linux with the City Advisors? Anyone has a foolproof recipe? I dearly miss Elvis!!! (and can you honestly say the cosplay film bits weren't pure endearing eye candy pushing the boundaries of what the technology allowed back then?)

My solution was to run Windows 3.1 inside dosbox -- which works surprisingly well.

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Quoting: whizseOh poo a PC port! I was using this game as an excuse to save up to a new CPU for RPCS3 :(

Yeah, but you seem to be very good at inventing excuses; I'm sure you'll find something else.

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The first thing it comes to my mind is ... does it have an actual AI? As opposed to the system Civilization has had in place since 1993 (?) where computer players suffer no penalties, need no resources, & randomly produce whatever and throw it at the human player, while the handicaps on the human player grow exponentially on each 'difficulty level'.

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