bundes_sheep

I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. Forgot how much I enjoyed this game.

I've just started playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma from the collection on Steam. I played this back on the XBox Legacy and never got that far. Now I'm playing around in Normal difficulty trying to learn the tells and come up with better ways to handle things. Still in Chapter 1, it's been 25-30 years since I've played it and I never really got gud back then.

I'm currently playing Astrox Imperium. The dev was out of communication for a while and is now back, though he is going to finish it up as best he can and then later on make it open source since I guess he's burned out on it or something. It's a game I really like. It's a sandbox space trading/combat single player game that is often referred to as "Eve Offline".

Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?

For the most part, yes. I've modded Skyrim, with SKSE and haven't run into any mods I couldn't add. Satisfactory has linux support for mods through the community-built mod launcher, so I haven't had any problems there. If you are comfortable copying files around, sometimes editing text files, uncompressing files, and other like tasks then you'll be fine. The only troubles I have had are running trainers that run alongside the game and connect to the running executable. There is one of the Resident Evil 2 remake I wasn't able to get going. I think there are methods to do this, I just haven't looked into them in detail yet.

For most things involving games in Linux, you need to have a small amount of tweaking skills, and that's it. You might have to copy a launch string into the Steam launch setup, or you might need to download a tweaked copy of Proton to get something running well (Glorious Eggroll builds). If you have those skills or can learn them, you'll be fine. It's kind of fun, too. If you don't have those skills or want to learn them, you'll be restricted to not being able to get the best experience when running some games and there will be the occasional game in your backlog that won't run at all without it.

Not trying to scare anyone off, but that's been my experience with Linux gaming. I'm comfortable enough on Linux that it hasn't been a problem, but some people might find it more of a hurdle to get over.

It's also early access, so it will presumably help with it being a bit shallow. There are a surprising amount of things locked behind various mechanics that I'm starting to stumble across. For example, if you're a jerk to people enough your karma score will fall and now you have access to rifle through vending machines looking for loose change or robbing an ATM. I have a feeling there are a lot more of these kinds of things to discover.

Just getting out of the Sims price hell is worth it for me. I've had some good experiences with early access games in the past so I'm reasonably upbeat about what may come down the line.

I would characterize it as "hit or miss". It works great for me on Ubuntu and I can't remember any problems I've had in the last few years anyway. I'm not on Wayland yet, though. I would recommend AMD GPUs to people though myself to avoid them hitting the "miss" part of "hit and miss" phrase.

Preparation for real life, I guess. There's no win condition that I know of :)

I am of the opinion that no one should be vandalizing property that they don't own themselves. Protest, sure (following whatever laws Canada has in place for that), don't buy a Tesla, sure, encourage everyone you've ever met not to buy one, fine, but please respect the right of people who don't want their stuff vandalized.

Also, while dealerships have insurance, doing this just makes the insurance go up for everyone. But that's not my point. People shouldn't vandalize the property of others because they really, really, really x5, don't like Elon.

I'm not an Elon or Trump apologist, I'm just someone fighting on the side of civilized behavior.

I can't believe this is so controversial, but people shouldn't be blamed for buying one even now. It's just a car. If people hate Elon (not a big fan myself), then don't buy one. But respect other people's right to buy what they want and leave their shit alone.

I wish "live and let live" was still a thing. We might not be so polarized if it was.

I put a lot of quarters into Xevious in high school. Way too many.

I’m not saying we should kill them. I’m saying we should use the possibility of that being on the table to make them pay their taxes.

I'm guessing most of them do pay their taxes. There are just lots of loopholes that have been lobbied for by the rich that they are using that their expensive tax accountants find for them. Instead of whacking billionaires, maybe get rid of the tax loopholes that let them pay so much less in taxes as compared to their extreme wealth.

Also, if you're okay downloading and installing mods manually, many of them "just work", even some of the more tricky ones if you're willing to tinker a bit. Some games have mod installers that are cross platform (for example, Satisfactory Mod Manager has a linux version and it works great).