That may be so, but it is the only software that does whip the llama’s ass.

Good, this timeline is getting too weird for me.

That’s the route I was considering. It seems that they don’t recommend Pi Zero for this, so I’ll have to get a Pi 3 or 4.

It started with me manually downloading a mod and shoving the files into the Steam game directly.

Then I installed the windows version of Nexus Mods Manager using Wine and pointed it to the Skyrim in Linux Steam that runs as a Flatpak.

Yes, it is a dumb hack. But it works.

We do what we must because we can.

I’ve just built it from source to check it out.

Looks great, all the included apps work fine. I seem to only be able to open one app at the time and can’t find any way to close it or change to a different one, but that may be a problem on my setup.

I still haven’t tried any 3rd party apps.

I remember a sepia monitor being used with an early IBM PC clone, it was not black and white or amber, and it was not an anti glare protection. I remember that detail because the phosphor tint was very different from the standard black and white TVs of the time.

I can confirm they existed but any other details have long left my memory.

I read somewhere that the project is really hurting due to the original programmers having little to no time to devote to it, so I’m not expecting to run it on a Raspberry Pi anytime soon.

I wish I could help, but I’m no programmer.

I still have it installed (Haiku, actually) on a small 32-bit laptop that I boot occasionally just to marvel at how awesome it is.

A port to Arm or Risc V would be great, it seems like a natural match to small SBCs.

Nice easter egg in the very first level.

How nice is it to have one of the creators of a 30 year old game still release new content for it? Romero rules.

The Windows experience was worse, but at least your raindrops were rendered correctly.

It feels like you used a detail that you could not resolve to go back to the cozy arms of what you are familiar with.

And that’s OK. I also went back to Windows a few times until I felt at home in Linux.

Try it again sometime in the future and see if it fells more comfortable.

Most Linux distributions are quite reliable, even rolling ones. What usually causes instability are the closed source applications people choose to run on them.

I’m not just pointing out nVidia drivers, I’ve seen Teams and Visual Studio Code crash an otherwise stable Ubuntu LTS.

Flatpak Steam works for me. Can't say I find any difference from native.

Nice. This is why I only buy AMD gear. Support those who support you, people!

There are already some Lemmy/Mastodon clients for Linux. I don't really think Thunderbird is a good fit for this use case.

If you want to read (not reply) your Lemmy feed in Thunderbird you can simply use the built in RSS feed reader.

My first computer was a 48K Sinclair ZX Spectrum, when I was maybe 12 years old. That’s how old I am.

Plays great on Firefox too.

Great work with a very good explanation of the process.

When moving over from that other site it was the first instance I tried, for no particular reason.

They made me write a statement why I would want to join the instance (okay, you need to filter the bots, fair enough) so I wrote a nice little text to let them know. I guess I failed to write the keywords they were looking for, so they denied my application.

That told me all I needed to know about the mods.