Yeah, I thought that was a bit weird, too. Going as basic as explaining how to use ls and cat and how to run an executable, but not mentioning how to make an executable actually be executable.

I thought maybe it was just something wacky with my Termux install that made me have to chmod it all.

I also found it weird how the game didn’t manage HP and inventory for you. There must have been better ways for it to show you how to use session variables…

I found I had to chmod u+x the binaries, but they worked fine. You need to make sure you call them as ./filename (assuming you are in the same directory as the file)

IE:

chmod u+x treasure

./treasure

Forked it, renamed it, and changed nothing but the license on it.

What’s stopping it from becoming the defacto version putting the original into the point where it’s no longer worth maintaining, then Microsoft pulls it and sells it as a subscription service?

They fact they based it on Fedora in the first place seemed like a stupid choice, but I’ve been biased against Fedora for a long time lol.

IMO they should have based it off Arch or Ubuntu to align with the Steamdeck or SteamOS

I don’t have anything too fancy. I use [theFuck(https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) to handle typos, and I have some variables set to common directories that I use.

For me it’s been the availability of packages, and how up-to-date things are. The AUR is a gamechanger.

Getting my first computer up wasn’t too bad - really no more time to configure it than anything else, and you can just toss your packages to a a text file and your dotfikes to GitHub. Didn’t take long at all to get my second computer set up

Makes sense. I went from Suse to Mepis, stuck with it for a bit after they transitioned to Ubuntu before just going full Ubuntu, but I was getting frustrated by how long it took for their repos to catch up. I’ve been on Arch for a year or two now and it’s been fantastic.

I ran Ubuntu for like 15 years and was especially recently getting frustrated by how far behind the packages always were. I’m full in on Arch - everything about it has been a much better experience.

What’s with all the Mint hype? I’ve never used it and have little desire to go back to a Ubuntu-based distro. Just curious why everyone loves it so much.

I’ve never understood the fedora hype. The fact that it is adjacent to Redhat should be enough for people to want to stay away lol.

I usually just throw everything at Proton-GE and haven’t had a problem yet.

Yeah, I think the same - AI generated.

Shadow on the active window and maybe the selected icon could look nice. Likewise, on a button that is selected or hovered over.

Man, my tastes are weird because as much as I LOVE dark mode, I would absolutely rock a theme like this.

A lot of the suggestions in the comments kinda miss the mark… What we want is a very flat 2D-ish theme with over exaggerated shadowing, simple icons, and gentle rounded text areas and windows. None of the elements give the appearance of 3D curves or crevices. They remind me more of stickers.

One thing that bugs me with that mockup (and sorry because you won’t be able to unsee it) is the inconsistency in shadows - some buttons have it, some don’t. Some icons have it, some don’t.

It is otherwise a really clean and nice layout. I dig the retro warm vibes.

Lmao I can’t believe anybody would post that shit and then try to pass it off as human. It’s maybe the most worthless slop I’ve seen in a while.

Oh man, I had no idea! I don’t have tiktok so sometimes I’m not paying attention and click a link somebody sends me and it just goes to some broken page because my phone can’t handle the intent…

I’ll have to fix this with Tasker and Termux

No, I don’t mind them making things easier at all. It’s when they make them easier at the cost of making the useful power features harder to get to (or removed altogether).

I’m also not expecting people to be able to understand complex technical troubleshooting or anything either.

I’m just expecting that people understand the basics of Windows usage. How to min/max a window, what a start button is, what a taskbar is, how to copy/paste text, how to end a task in the task manager (to name a few things). Nothing new, nothing fancy. The windows 7 “Devices and Printers” style window is something I would expect any user to handle if they need to map a networked printer, or see what devices they have connected in the simplest way.

The biggest hole in your argument is that it isn’t 1993 anymore, and the internet has a whole wealth of information on how to do shit, not to mention how hard it would be to have never touched a computer if you’re any more than 5 years old.

People could take the 30 seconds to get the answer, but instead they’d prefer to just be stupid and allow big tech to slowly repeal rights to repair.

I’ve done corporate IT. I’ve talked to people who somehow use a computer every day but still haven’t grasped basic 30+ year old concepts.

The reliance on IT to do the most basic shit is great for me from an employment standpoint, but we are equitr clearly being herded slowly toward the "Take that to your certifies Microsoft repair center for service’ path. It’ll only be a matter of time before Computers are as pathetic as the pocket computers we call smart phones.

Google and Apple have not just convinced people that they don’t need full ownership of their phones, but that having that level of access is actually somehow a bad thing.

We’re already seeing laptops with batteries sealed in, and not just Surface Pro tablet style ones, either.

We shouldn’t be coddling and encouraging ignorance of everyday things. If you can do a jigsaw puzzle, you’re overqualified to build a computer - you may need help picking the right parts, but assembly should be straight forward. If you work a job that requires computer usage, you should know at least the basics of the OS. If you worked in a shop where your job was to cut a pipe to length using a saw, would you really have that job for long if you had no idea how to use a saw, and refused to learn the basics of using the saw? A computer is a tool no less than a saw is.

Lmao imagine paying a monthly fee for software that ruins the game you made… Wtf

Man, where to even start on this…

“Watering down” is the MS approach to design - take all the power user features, and make them less useful and less efficient to use (or just get rid of them altogether). It’s a slow burn to “Take that to the nearest certified Microsoft Store so they can repair it for you”.

The entire design is focused around making things HARDER to use. Less reliance on a terminal, dynamic menus whose contents are clusterfucked into little panels instead of proper menus. Hell, look at the Printers dialogue in Windows 7 and prior, then compare that to the trash they’ve thrown in Win 10 and 11. Everything is designed to look flashy, and be as impossibly inefficient to use. But it looks less intimidating, so stupid users love it!

Reading some email and punching some numbers into an excel sheet are about the equivalent of signing a lease or getting a flu shot.

Not sure where you’re from, but when I get a flu shot, I sit in a chair and somebody who knows how to administer the shot gives it to me. I also don’t get a flu shot for several hours a day several days a week. Same with leases, I may sign one every few years at most, and if it’s for something serious then I would get a lawyer involved. That said, I am at least competent enough to sit in the chair and get the shot without asking “what’s a chair? How do I sit? Where is my arm?” Likewise, I can read a lease and not have to ask “What is a lease? What is a signature? How do I sign this page?” I can’t say the same about people in 2025 who say “What’s the start button?” or have no idea that decades-old shortcuts like ctrl+c and ctrl+v are things.

Also, if you consider the amount of marketing and exposure to computers that people have had by now, yes, I would expect just about everybody to know what the fuck a Start button is. Shit, if you hold your mouse over it, I’m almost certain it even pops a tooltip that says “Start”. Some of these people have worked at this same company for decades, and have no doubt touched generations of Windows software.

As for how to copy/paste on those older computers - I guess it depends on how you’re accessing them as to whether or not you even can copy/paste. But at the same time, I wouldn’t be nearly as frustrated if somebody wasn’t quite sure how to navigate through something that isn’t as commonplace as a Windows computer - you might as well say you’re “not very competent with pencils and paper”.