Quoting: namikoI've been playing some old edutainment games on DOSBox that my partner insisted I try out.

Super Solvers is a fun series (so far), the two games I tried are reading-comprehension based and math based. The math one you zap robots with a remote control at a TV station to find clues to where the "Master of Mischief" is hiding. The reading one you use a magnifying glass to zap the robots, but the same general idea: zap the robots, do puzzles, get clues, and find the Master of Mischief before midnight, or it's Game Over!

It sounds completely ridiculous, but it's actually fun. :)

My favourites on DOSBox (so far) are probably Duke Nukem 2 (that soundtrack!), Dune, EcoQuest 1, and The Island of Dr. Brain.

Outnumbered was one of my first games as a child on our green screen 8086. I still remember the music of the TV station. Treasure Mountain and Gizmos and Gadgets were also a blast. My parent recently found our old floppies and copied them over (along with Lemmings!).

Ps, if your using the num pad, you can "hover" over Telly by jumping over him and just going back and forth with the 7 and 9 key. It made 5yoa me very happy. You couldn't do that in Treasure Mountain (the elves could steal you gold) or Gizmos and Gadgets (I think you'd get hit).

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Quoting: Shmerlapt-get autoremove
is not the right way to use it though. Many forget to add purge:
apt-get autoremove --purge

Thanks. Totally forgot about purge.

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Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: denyasisThe only thing I'm not still not a fan of, I can't figure out the equivalent of apt-get autoremove to remove orphaned or unneeded packages. I can do it in the package manager's gui, but haven't figure out how to do it on the command line.

For a general table of equivalences, check this out: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta [External Link]

(zypper rm -u is probably the command you're looking for.)

Holy crap! I didn't know that existed! Thanks!

I love you

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Quoting: slaapliedjeMaybe it's because I've been using it for so damned long, but Debian to me is VERY easy to set up...

I generally agree, Debian is pretty easy to set up. Not to derail the thread too much or start a distro war, I found that the Suse's YAST setup program was more polished and had more options for tinkering the system. For example, I could set up my NFS shares and even tell the installer to skip certain packages (gaming rig, skip the Office suite plz).

It also includes some "bells and whistles". For example, it sets up automatic root partiton snapshots, so if you get a bad upgrade (its like testing after all), you can just boot into the last snapshot via grub and restore it.

Its all fairly easy stuff to do on your own, but its nice that the installer handles it. It gives a very professional feel (and hopefully is less intimidating to a newer user)

The only thing I'm not still not a fan of, I can't figure out the equivalent of apt-get autoremove to remove orphaned or unneeded packages. I can do it in the package manager's gui, but haven't figure out how to do it on the command line.

When I wanted to try a rolling distro, I went Debian testing and kept it for 10 years (my home server is still Debian and I'm never changing that!). It's a darn good OS. If your thinking of trying an RPM based distro, I'd totally recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed.

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Good point.

Honest question as my apt knowledge with Ubuntu ended a long time ago. IIRC there is a method to upgrade from one version to another (no need to re-install any more, right)?

So when someone upgrades, their i386 packages will remain, right? I seem to remember that apt generally avoids removing packages (out side of auto-remove) during an upgrade. Or would it remove them automatically because the packages are "orphaned"?

I'm honestly interested how that would work, but my apt skills are a little weak to figure it out from the apt man pages.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/canonical-planning-to-drop-32bit-support-with-ubuntu-1910-onward.14409/comment_id=157290

Quoting: ShmerlSo far, it doesn't need to be now, and there will be too much overhead, to be acceptable. Too many games were made in 32-bit still in the not distant past.

In the further future - yes, likely there will be ways to run 32-bit in some kind of emulated mode or thunking? But that should come with acceptable performance to work out for gaming. And it should be tested before dropping support for what's working today.

I must say I agree. Besides in the future, hardware improvement could mitigate the overhead to some degree.

Now if Ubuntu were to have started work on a compatibility layer / emulator (Not really sure what to call it) before killing off 32-bit support, that would be a very nice project and would have placed them well ahead of the curve.

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Isn't it a bit of an inevitability, though?

Playing devil's advocate a bit here, but, since 32 bit is no longer being pushed, Isn't it just a matter of time before it would be dropped or that future versions of libraries would have incapabilities with our beloved older games and programs?

It seems to me at some point in the future there would have to be an extra overhead, akin to a WINE or dosbox or something, that preserves that working state for older titles.

I just don't think any of us thought that time would be now

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For those looking to jump off Ubuntu, Debian testing is nice. I used it for the past 10 years.

Perhaps because it's new and shiny (to me), but I recently left Debian and tried Suse tumbleweed (their rolling distro). I find it much easier to set up (great installer) and it feels much more polished. It has simple instructions to activate Nvidia drivers and is more up to date (bleeding edge) than Debian testing. The package manager is different and takes some getting used to, but it seems well thought out.

If your looking for something on the user friendly side, it might be worth a look.

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Rimworld. The most recent update came out Thursday and it decreases load times drastically for games with mods. I went from 800 sec to 180 sec on my old laptop.

I just lost half my colonists in a raid, so it'll be interesting to see if I can rebuild before winter.

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Quoting: liamdaweHere's some extra perspective for you.

CodeWeavers emailed me a while ago out of the blue to thank me for my coverage of Proton. I emailed them to ask for an interview, they didn't reply. A week later one of them is on a podcast with BoilingSteam.

I didn't get salty about it, it's just the way it is. It's why I find the situation so bemusing. Emails don't get answered all the time.

Interesting. On the other hand, in my profession, that would be unacceptable. I'm required to read and respond to all emails within 24 hours. I'm blue collar too, and work out of a car, so I would have to stop what I'm doing in the field, drive to an office and log on.

You have no idea how awesome it was when get finally got email access on our car computers (and our personal phones)! I imagine I get far fewer emails, 50 ish a day, than you guys.

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