Endymion_Mallorn

For real, though, Rip Graham Greene.

I suggest that there’s no meaningful benefit to be gained by looking backward rather than forward. If you want to move to a different paradigm, that’s fine, but condemnation of the past is performative compared to putting forward laws and resolutions to benefit others. The Bill of Human Rights was forward-looking, this condemnation is backward-looking. Emphasize where we want to go and why we want to be there, rather than where we were and the mistakes we made as a society.

Slavery was evil, so was the destruction of indigenous peoples across the world. But we can’t yet change the past. We should reinforce that we will work to eliminate slavery (chattel and indenture), human trafficking, and the abuses related to it. Focus on what we can improve today and how we can improve things.

The problem is that there’s a bunch of people who want to hold living people accountable for what was done by the dead.

Because it just works. Which is what an OS and DE need to do first and foremost.

Well, I guess I’m not responsible for the mistakes of the devs.

Come to Mint. We’re standing by X11, and Cinnamon looks better than Plasma.

Nothing ever ends.

Linux is the color of fnord,

I’ll take the safe grand and not bother with gambling.

I’m happy with Cinnamon. Maybe OpenBox.

Everyone but Elsevier wants that.

Then… we only use the versions that work. And someone can fork from there.

But does the software still work?

Writing a good text editor is something to be proud of, so that’s awesome!

I don’t use any version of Commander on this machine, and I don’t plan to. I used the original from Norton back in the day, but when Windows 3 hit, I used Norton Desktop to improve it (basically into what Win95 became), and never looked at a Commander interface again - if I want two side-by-side directories, I have a windowing system. I’ve tried emacs and vim briefly and they’re well beyond what I’m ever looking for. geany is an option, but gedit seems to be doing the job. I’ve never heard of kate before this thread, I’ll have to look it up. Never looked at nano, but I heard of it.

Based on the interface and what I’ve needed it for, gedit works, and so does Sublime Text. Honestly, Notepad++ was/is my third-most-used text editor on Windows, behind M$ Edit (I have FreeDOS Edit in DOSBox) and M$ Notepad (replaced with xed, except the .LOG function, which is sorely missed). Npp is the one I use for editing HTML/XML, Excel functions, the odd Excel macro; and subtitle files, transcripts, and scripts (where line numbers matter and I need fixed-length lines). FocusWriter is #4 on both OSes.

Honestly, I think gedit might be the best play.

The only way I interact with Wine is through Bottles, honestly. It just doesn’t seem worth the trouble to go through all that for a text editor.

I’m a Mint user, because I don’t want to use Windows 11, and I realized that about 95% of what I was doing on Win10 was FOSS. The only thing I miss is Notepad++.

Thank you for confirming Endless Sky! I’m glad it runs well on both systems.

That’s a really wide question. I’ll give you my list of answers.

Here are my top three:

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon, a roguelike descended from Pixel Dungeon. It’s strayed quite far afield from the original PD, but I think most of the changes are good.

• Mindustry, a hybrid tower defense and systems-building game. I’ve heard it compared to a game called Factorio, but I’ve never played that, so you’ll have to take it with a grain of salt. Sorry.

• Forkyz, a crossword app, which is a fork (appropriately) of a game called Shortyz. It allows you to download daily crosswords from bunches of sources for free and play them at your leisure.

• Chip Defense, a tower defense game themed around computers. It’s really fun if you like computers and/or tower defense.

• Space Trader, a text-based game heavily inspired by Elite. Travel a galaxy, trade goods, blow people up, complete quests, buy a moon.

Here are some games on F-Droid that I’m not going to link, because i don’t know how they do on Android, but I love them on PC:

• Luanti, which used to be called Minetest. It’s an open-source voxel building game engine (like Minecraft). It’s very scriptable, and you can build a lot of stuff with a little knowledge and looking at examples.

• Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based hex-grid strategy game with day/night mechanics and multiple campaigns, both included and downloadable. And it’s got multiplayer too!

• Endless Sky, a spaceflight game which borrows heavily from the Escape Velocity series. If you like the concept of Elite, you should check it out.

• OpenTTD, an open-source version of the classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but so much more.

Real men should update.