ifixcoinops

18+ ifixcoinops OP , vor einem Monat

🐿 People who start the game
🦝 People who sniff around the options menu and then start the game

Broadly,
🐿 Straightforward people who want to get on with doing the thing they wanted to do in the first place.
🦝 FIDDLERS. They FIDDLE with things. They can't help it. Fiddling with the thing's settings or whatever is an integral part of their enjoyment of the thing.

People who get interested in Game Dads or retro emulation in general tend to be 🦝, because these machines are fiddly by nature, and kinda self-select for 🦝.

EVERYBODY ON THE FEDIVERSE IS 🦝. Fedi's filter bubble isn't its leftiness or its gen-x'ness, it's SCRAPYARD-FINGERED FIDDLERS.

By an overwhelming majority, most people are 🐿.

By an overwhelming majority, 🦝 find it hard to remember that most people are 🐿.

18+ foone , vor einem Monat

@ifixcoinops I've heard this explained as the two type of people being "standard install" and "custom install"

ifixcoinops OP , vor einem Monat

Linux is a bit shit sometimes,

There's your headline. I don't care whether you use linux or not; ten years ago that might have mattered, I might be trying to get more people to use it so that adobe or whoever would put more effort into supporting it, but that doesn't really matter anymore, these days everything either Just Works or there's a native equivalent that's better and I've no selfish reason to recommend linux anymore, so if you're happy with windows stick with windows.

If you're not happy with windows, here's the other half of that sentence at the top of this post:

Linux is a bit shit sometimes - but when it's a bit shit, it's a bit shit in the way of a cat who watches the mouse run across the living room floor, not in the way of a cat who suddenly decides to bite you for no reason. It's not actively malicious, it's just a bit shit sometimes, which these days is tbh pretty damn good compared with a lot of stuff.

Like, it's not bad because it's being hollowed out for investors, it's not bad because it's spying on you to make more money, it's not bad because its makers know you've gotta take it anyway, it's not bad because it knows it can get a lot worse before you look elsewhere, it's just... bad. But bad in like a normal way, like a bike with a wonky gear shifter and tyres that keep going soft, not like a bike that shows you adverts.

There's my linux recommendation.

LINUX: It's A Bit Shit Sometimes™