I haven’t played this one, but I did the one from KanoOS several years ago, and it was really helpful for learning some of the common CLI tools, like cat, cd, and grep.

More of these kinds of games is a good thing, IMO!

No, you don’t need to be worried. For example, Flatseal is a program to manage other flatpaks. This means that, by design, it needs to be able to grant flatpaks certain permissions that may expose them to system services they need to operate correctly.

One user mentioned that these new warnings aren’t particularly helpful, because they don’t give a good explanation of what or why, and they just foster anxiety in users who just want to install an otherwise reputable flatpak.

I don’t know anything about xournal++, but I would imagine it’s also reputably safe, and somebody else can verify for sure.

Sounds like a shitty day.

If it’s for someone else, I’d pick Mate or XFCE. Should feel familiar to Windows (which is what I’d guess they’re coming from), and it should be light enough to work on that hardware.

ElementaryOS comes with Pantheon, which is also very light, iirc, and it might be worth trying out via a live ISO.

The irony is climate change doesn’t care if they exist or not, either.

That’s really interesting. I hadn’t heard that before

I’m not convinced there will be as many humans left by 2100. The ultra-capitalists certainly don’t seem to be slowing down their consumption at all; fewer humans means fewer sources of emissions, so maybe the climate will right itself by pure attrition, on its part, and pure apathy/ignorance/greed on ours.

This is old news at this point. They’re letting the ban go into effect while they litigate whether the ban is actually constitutional/legal. The fact that they’re letting it go onto effect rather than granting injunctive relief is virtue signaling to their supporters/“vacation buddies.”

So excited for this. I’m going to start a new game when it drops.

If it is, it’s only working on the most braindead, disengaged, “enlightened” centrists who wouldn’t know propaganda if it had a stamp on it that said, “This is propaganda.”

The rest of the climate denialists/accelerationists are his base, who drank the Kool aid long ago.

Yep, distrobox is a wrapper for Podman, which is also installed by default.

But I agree, there’s actually not a ton of functional difference between SteamOS and Bazzite, unless you want/need to use your Deck like a laptop. If you are only doing gaming, SteamOS is actually the better choice, because Valve has patches and modifications that aren’t yet included in upstream that maximize the hardware’s capabilities and stability.

KH2 is where I would say the gameplay really takes off.

And where I’ve heard from other fans that the story takes a dive off a cliff. So you get better gameplay and a mess of a story.

I do not have personal experience to verify, but multiple friends confirmed this to be the case.

Look at the preinstalled program Flatseal. It’s specifically for managing flatpak permissions.

The NR200 is a 17L case, and it will definitely fit in smaller luggage. Only thing you’d need to brace or consider packing is the GPU.

Cruelty is the point, much like an abusive partner reminding their victim of the power dynamic.

Sensibility, reasonability, and kindness be damned.

It’s a distro that makes all but a few system directories immutable. This means you can’t just install whatever you want in the same way you would install in a traditional Linux system.

This comes with some benefits:

• Malicious and buggy software can’t permanently fuck up your installation. Even root can’t edit those directories.
• Each system update replaces only the system layer, but you can rollback to the previous one if something breaks.
• You can rebase to other images (like going from Fedora Kinoite to UBlue Aurora) with a simple command, and you don’t need to reinstall anything or worry about backing up your /home directory.
• Most software is installed via flatpaks or appimages, keeping a layer of separation between your system and your applications.
• Distroboxes/Podman containers can handle a lot of additional software while keeping it safely containerized.
• The system is generally reproducible, so the core of what you have is the core of what everybody else has.

Some drawbacks:

• You can’t install whatever you want however you want. There are some hard limitations on where files are allowed to go, and installing certain software that interacts with the kernel can be tricky (I’m currently trying to figure out the best way to install my VPN provider’s client).
• There’s a definite learning curve to working with containers. It’s not always as simple as “create container, install thing.”
• There’s a definite learning curve to retraining yourself to think in layers/containers.

Some examples of modern immutable distros are:

• Fedora Silverblue
• Fedora Kinoite
• Universal Blue Aurora
• Universal Blue Bluefin
• Universal Blue Bazzite
• NixOS
• BlendOS

Good luck enforcing it. I’m sure Amarillo is going to love spending the extra money (increased property taxes) and getting stopped randomly at checkpoints.

I have to agree. I’m hoping Cosmic will be somewhere in-between!

My knowledge is limited, but you should be using that command to create service files, from what I understand. There’s some extra stuff that happens in the background (like putting symlinks in the correct places) after you write out the changes using that command.

People are so stupid. Authoritarians can’t save you from impending doom, and they have no incentive to do so.