Must have had bad luck! I mean I’ve fixed many a Linux computer in my time so I know it’s not perfect, but I guess my expertise helps me avoid a lot of the pitfalls of Linux by generally reading the fucking manual and understanding what I’m doing.

Windows though will break and also install bullshit updates and reset your settings when you do everything right, and that’s what gets me every time.

You know, you can have the same options in both systems. One has the default behaviour A, the other has the default behaviour B. You prefer A. I prefer B.

How is one of them better?

My 10+ year arch installation is certainly more reliable than my prior windows installation that would randomly decide that the registry is borked and won’t boot at all, for no apparent reason.

Why is automounting at boot without credentials a necessity and intuitive for you. No, I would expect it to mount exactly once and to require me to input username and password before I mount my porn collection so that my sister does not see it.

I don’t get why you claim that windows does this correctly and Linux does not. It would be the opposite for me.

Besides, the important point in this example is to actually mount the folder to do your job. In your example, both systems do this equally well with an equally well UI, before your automounting nonsense.

I have no idea what is the point of this post.

Nah, arch wiki and forums are good, btw.

Thanks, I’ll keep it in mind for the next time I will be able to visit.

Surprisingly deep and accurate for c&h.

Which part of the country is that at?

Archmage was indeed very nice!

Huh that’s interesting, thanks for letting me know. I’ll check it out.

Thanks, I’ll give it a go then.

Thank you Barony seems quite interesting, and I’ll keep it in mind. For the current moment, though, I would like to scratch an itch of something with a proper campaign instead of a roguelike. But seems up my alley for later.

This sounds great, I will look for it and give it a try! Thank tou.

Legend of grimrock cannot be paused, can it?

I had seen it getting played, but somehow I think this turns me off. Optional pausing for issuing commands would be perfect, but real time only would be too stressing I believe.

But I’m willing to try if recommended enough.

I do. Thanks, I’ll give it a go once a clear a little backlog.

Eh, it is not a genre by itself, I was referring to roguelike as more of an archetype of short, repeating game loops that have progression by unlocking things and increasing difficulty.

As for the genre itself, you can have many different types of games. As I said, slay the spire is probably the best deck building game, monster train is similar in some ways but is more tower-defense like and more combo-y, slice and dice is tactical dice-based, Brotato is more arcade-y rpg-like combat. Hades is tactical arcade combat, but needs two hands. Balatro is poker-card-based combo-y puzzle. Dungeons of dredmor is a bit older but very fun actual Rogue-like game. Caves of Qud is similar but very complex and deep and harder. Inscription is another fun card-based game, but is more of an one-off mysterious experience rather than repeatable a lot.

You can certainly find something that interests you.

Is tales good? I have got it some years ago, never got to starting it yet. But seemed interesting.

Congratulations!

Anectodally from other fathers in my cycle, roguelikes are the genre for dads now. Especially things like Slay the Spire, Monster Train and the like.

You are generally a bit sleep deprived, because you have to sacrifice sleep for entertainment, therefore you tend to prefer one-off games then end in about an hour or so, instead of story rich games like bg3, because you don’t have the energy or mental capacity to remember what’s going on every time you begin a gaming session.

After a while, about a year in, things settle a bit and you start more complex one-off games, like dota, path of exile and so.

Second child and on, maintain same pattern because you already know how to handle things with the kids. It’s a lot easier.

Yes. If I ever need something else because something unforeseen happened (which has not happened for years, and I use a non-default one), I can boot up from a live USB and fix things.

I use arch btw.