fwiw regarding point 3, I had Mycroft on my pinephone. Was toying with other distros at some point so I don’t have it anymore, but it worked. Took a few seconds to process.

Wine Is Not an Emulator.

This is an Emulator.

This is (like) virtualbox running in seamless mode…

Not sure what you mean. It runs games perfectly and the battery drain is seemingly minimal, not out of the ordinary compared to other games on the device.

PortMaster, program designed to streamline the management of Ports on your handheld Linux devices

Guake, drop down terminal.

Hexchat, irc client

It even works on windows

Let’s not speak of it before it gets swept up

Now download them before they have GOG do age verification. The EU overwhelmingly voted to implement it on platforms that offer content not suitable for children.

There are gopher browsers that allow you to visit an alternative, more simple “web”

You’re right, this never happens on windows. It’s so robust no one ever complains

/s

My NAS had 4GB and eventually I maxed it out to 16GB when the pricing for its type of RAM dropped significantly.

I’m all about upcycling PCs with Linux, but I think selling a PC with 2GB RAM is going to make Linux look bad. It’s gonna handle its resources better than windows, but 2GB is just too little for today’s standards. It will not run well.

edit:considering this is 10 years old judging by the versions used, back then it would have been okayish, I have a convertible from that time with the same specs but it just can’t keep up anymore.

Yes, of course and it’s a lot better than what we have at this point, it’s a great first step. I still remember the days of Id Software releasing their game (logic) under the GPL.

What “online only” means is the need to authenticate to a proprietary server. After logging in, you are then (potentially) directed to a random server to play on.

If you are not online, you cannot authenticate and therefor not be directed to a server. This means you cannot play the game. When the authentication server and infrastructure behind the game is taken offline, the game becomes unplayable, because it is online only.

If a final patch were to be made where either a private authentication server would be made available for you to self-host, or authenation to be completely removed, you could play the game either offline on your device locally or LAN, or online by anyone who cares enough to host a server with the game logic. It would no longer be “online only” since you would have a choice. You can choose to play offline, or choose to play online.

If a game actually needs servers beyond the authentication part, then those should be made available too, so that anyone, again, can play locally or online.

It’s logical that if game servers are made available, a game can never be “online only” again, because you could host the server on your pc and connect to localhost.

Your whole argumentation about “online only” game design falls completely flat. You are mixing concepts that have nothing to do with one another.

A game can be a battle royale by design, gameplay wise, and have the ability to host your own servers by design, technical architecture wise.

Quake Live used to be online only. You could not host your own servers. They released for steam and made it possible to host your own servers. The old authentication system was taken down, logins are no longer required, and now you just launch the game and pick a server in a built in server browser. It should be the standard and Quake Live should serve as an example of how it should be done.

This is short sighted. Architectures can and will change in the future. I’m running game servers on my aarch64 devices, if I wasn’t able to compile, and sometimes even edit, the code I wouldn’t have been able to run these servers. Emulation isn’t always ideal, janky or even non existent.

I have long hair too, you just dont let it dangle in front of your face when you look down like this.

Maybe she’s used to pull her hair back in this position out of habit?

Some software installers still ask if I want to install for all users, which require elevated permissions, or only for me, which don’t. In that last option it will not prompt for elevated permissions as it will use one of my user’s folders which I have already all permissions for, obviously.

It’s a security measure that’s half assed. People are so used to it they just click allow but don’t actually look at the prompt anymore. Like I see a lot of people do with cookies on websites.