I remember reading a while back that glass shells aren’t great for hermit crabs

https://crabwow.com/are-glass-shells-bad-for-hermit-crabs/

I thought your post said games for a second there and was excited to hear about synthwave games

Is there a chance that Arch says that so they don’t have to take on the responsibility of endorsing yay while also acknowledging its prevalence?

Like if Nintendo made a statement saying they recommend against third party mods or repairs that deal with joycon stick drift because they don’t want to be held accountable or contacted about issues consumers run into a result of them.

Paying close attention to news feeds is something I wish I did when I ran Manjaro.

Any reason you would recommend Slackware specifically?

I’ve watched a few Youtube videos on the history of it and the advantages of it but I don’t recall much. It seemed like a lot of people who had used Slackware a long time ago simply continuing to use Slackware and people using at as a learning tool because of how user involved it is.

Would you recommend people start with Slackware itself or a Slackware-based distro?

It does. It gives you this message

-> Avoid running yay as root/sudo.

I only ran Debian and Ubuntu based distros up until that point so I thought you always needed to install packages using sudo.

I am pretty sure I ignored the warning initially because the first couple packages I tried to install with sudo and yay worked.

This was a while ago.

It doesn’t hurt to have the LTS kernel installed as a backup option (assuming you use the standard kernel as your chosen default) in case you update to a newer kernel version and a driver here or there breaks.

I had a similar issue that was resolved by swapping to the LTS kernel. Learning about using a bootable Arch USB and chrooting into your install to make repairs would be a good thing for OP to know

Why paru specifically?

And the neofetch print out

I didn’t read the documentation so I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to use sudo with yay.

-Ss can be added to pacman to search for packages. Pretty useful if you don’t want to DuckDuckGo them every time.

As for applications one neat one I don’t see recommended very often is xkill. You can use it to kill applications kind of like you would with the task manager in Windows. htop is probably a closer comparison to the task manager in general though.

There are a lot of Arch-based distros that are incredibly easy to install if you want a very easy setup process that doesn’t involve a lot of terminal work.

I think it’s going to get more and more challenging due to how many games are focused on online play. If co-op or multiplayer servers are shutdown a lot of the time it comes down to fans to recreate them.

I’d highly recommend checking out this PCGamingWiki page about GameSpy server replacements if you are into that kind of thing.

Even with these mods you still run into the issue of needing either players or bots and whether or not to archive all game altering updates.

I would say MagiPacks might be an even better example primarily because they deal with older games. They also operate along the GOG logic of ensuring games run on modern operating systems but they do it by bundling in commonly used fan patches.

You don’t think they could take down one?

Why is that?

I mean the kid in the sixth movie lit someone on fire and hit someone in the head with a pool ball. I feel like there’s some competition.

Are there collections of that or would I be doing what I am now and checking individual files?

Searching aspect ratio and 4:3 doesn’t seem to pull up much

I think that may not be on them. I think it would be a matter of tweaking the FFmpeg core in RetroArch but I don’t know if it has live video cropping as a feature especially when within the confines of RetroArch. Scaling? Maybe but that’s not really what I’m after.

Searching online I am getting either command line options or unrelated results about CRT gaming.

XXL pajamas. I’m a medium bordering on small so I was swimming in them.

I think I also got a video game for a console I didn’t have but the gesture was nice.

90% of Lemmy communities

I also wouldn’t say it’s sketchy. It’s just the overall political leaning of a lot of Lemmy is relatively left leaning and having those measures in place kind of demonstrates the vibe the instance is trying to create.