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Thank you very much! I didn’t manage to find time for games quite yet but I will get to it in couple of days surely.

I will look at Stardeus too. Thanks! Maybe I’ll get Space Haven soon and keep following Stardeus for a while since they are currently redoing the UI. I might take a look at Stardeus demo since they seem to have one.

I learned about this game just now with the 1.0 release, will probably get it after I read few more reviews so I know more about what to expect. I didn’t immediately find out if I can avoid combat entirely, for example if there’d be customisable sandbox mode which I didn’t see mention of just yet. This game has existed for a while and there’s lot to find out.
I’d like to just build and gather but I think I can deal with some adventure if necessary.

It looks cute and system requirements certainly aren’t too demanding.

Okay, that does look fun.
I don’t know a lot about modern tech but I suppose that the usb port might support headphones, at least I have a phone that does so when I tried it exactly once.
I’ll keep this thing in mind for sure.
I didn’t know I wanted PS2 emulation until I saw here that it is a thing that exists effortlessly enough these days so I might look into that more first… but I also didn’t know that I might want a something fun like this one in particular.

Finished reading The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters, a mediaeval whodunnit as the cover advertises. It was a comfortable read, with several kind and clever characters. Should I ever see any more in thrift stores I may pick up more of the series.
I went investigating after and saw that the books have been popular enough to have a TV show made in the nineties too. The book I read was not adapted though.

I have another book in different series by the author but not going to get to it just yet, I have some library books I am going to at least stare at a bit.

I randomly thrifted a mystery book called The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters. Haven’t done any research at all on this book series, just decided to read a bit, after suspense was too much I had to spy at the ending so now I can read it with peace of the mind… probably.

So far I really liked the attitudes some characters have had and I have found the writing hilarious and at times very touching.

I tend to forget I actually have an account even though I follow my subscribed page. I have been only reading the internet for too many years.

I am very non-technical and I have ended up with Linux Mint Cinnamon which was the first thing I tried, with Steam dealing with the few games I have played the past four years or so. It has been mostly non-Steam Fallout 4, No Man’s Sky, Baldur’s Gate 3, Guild Wars 2, and Steam version of Lord of the Rings Online. Stability varies but I think it is mostly my hardware being old.

Overall I have used Mint for maybe eight years, at first only for internet browsing. I still played LOTRO and Guild Wars 2 with my trusty (well okay, the games started to be rather crashy) WinXP around 2020. Hm… a year or two, here or there. I don’t actually remember when they started to drop support for XP. I originally tried Steam on Linux for LOTRO.

Just as a background info I’m going to be a little bit dramatic and claim that I don’t like Linux, I use it out of necessity. Even if I am generally fine with it, as far as I can manage it.
I just don’t like the command line at all. I also don’t like the program “shop” like system. I think I can see it on my current Mint as Software Manager, now that I check but I don’t want to start it. It is that I don’t like them “calling homes” or managing things which is how I see the command line and the manager being like.
I can download a Steam installer from the website and then it sets itself up, with command line type window, downloading what ever it likes from somewhere, managing things… fine, I have to deal, I want to play games. For general computer use I can download Firefox and some other Linux software from websites, they start when I click the executable and that’s the way I would like things to work way more. I do let the driver manager set graphics drivers when I make a new Mint installation as I can’t even begin to understand other options.

My favorite thing would be the possibility to easily set up a Linux computer for offline games without ever connecting it to internet.
Once, maybe 4 years ago I did somehow install wine on Debian which I think I didn’t connect to internet in the process. The one game I tested did launch but didn’t really display well because no graphics driver.
Another experiment, on Mint last year, was to install wine with command line (the horror!), I could launch the non-Steam games I installed but didn’t try playing them. I can’t remember for sure but it may be that the games just didn’t run as well as they did on Steam’s Proton on that same Mint installation. Based on when I sometimes read about Linux, wine does seem to need plenty of config which I really don’t want to do.