My favorite sci-fi game is probably Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. ME1 was the only game in the series that I enjoyed, but it still felt like a de-StarWars-ified KOTOR game.

I believe this to a degree based on my personal experiences with being thought of as either a brilliant wizard or evil hacker for unimpressive things. It even would happen at different jobs until my current job where my boss is the opposite. he thinks that anything and everything is possible and should be “easy” despite being technically illiterate. His new AI obsession has made it so much worse. I actually miss the super annoying “OMG you can do that? You’re a wizard/hacker/demigod!” days.

I only switched to an AMD GPU this year after 5 years using Nvidia cards. I assure you my situation is more common than yours. Your experience is also why people keep saying “Nvidia is OK now”, meaning quite clearly that it was absolutely not great before.

With Nvidia, once you got it installed and stable (if you were lucky your distro made that happen), it might stay good for many months to even a year. Then BLAM, some update catastrophically breaks your system and you’re stuck booting from a thumb drive trying to un-fuck your system. This was especially rough for me as I used my main system for work and gaming, so it had my Nvidia GPU in it.

My system has been smooth sailing since I switched to AMD. The drivers are in the kernel so it should be about as easy as it gets and shouldn’t be as finicky about which distro or DE you use. Now keep in mind that I am also on a top 7000 card, not a 9000 card, so I can’t speak to them from experience, but I haven’t heard any horror stories.

Nice, thanks. The Steam backlog must grow.

That tracks with what I have seen with my own cards. I suspect some of it is because there were specific driver versions that many distros favored for stability reasons that may have left some performance on the table, but that’s just my personal speculation.

As others have said, Nvidia cards are OK in Linux now, though AMD is better assuming you aren’t doing anything AI adjacent with the card.

The 9000 cards don’t offer much of value other than running a bit cooler IMO. The fact is that the good 7000 cards aren’t really available in retail anymore, so it only matters to people (like me) that already have a good 7000 series card. If I didn’t have one and was looking for a new card I would have no problem picking up a 9000 series card as long as the price wasn’t ridiculous.

That number needs to be at least ten times higher.

Hah, indeed. That Epic is long dead, just like the Id that made Commander Keen and the Blizzard that made Rock n Roll Racing.

Let’s hope we do in fact get other challengers because Epic is the last company that I want to succeed as a major platform.

Maybe it’s because Epic sucks and are total hypocrites. Google absolutely deserved to lose in court, but Epic and Sweeney can go to hell.

I believe the previous post was talking about Wake on LAN (WoL) and Wake on WLAN (WoWLAN) which are separate things.

Civ 3 was the first game in the series that didn’t feel like a big improvement (graphics aside of course). but you always love your first Civ.

I had that game for the Atari 2600 and unlike E.T, it was a great game.

I believe there is a fork from the last GPLv3 version called SwanStation.

I still have my copy in my own little museum in my office with some of my favorite (or in this case most notorious) games. Does that count?

My high school and middle school (they were right next to each other and shared buses) started at 7:15 AM, half the year it was dark when the bus picked us up and we lived in the far south where days didn’t get super short. It was bullshit then and it is bullshit now. It was nice to get out of school before 2PM I guess.

Damn, sorry for suggesting it in that case. I didn’t have a hard time getting the SNES Classic at the time, but the NES Classic was a fight. I ended up having to spend far more than it was worth to get one.

Retropie has a video on their setup guide that can help with the emulation front. Setting up a Raspberry Pi itself can be a little annoying if you’ve never done it before, but there are tons of guides out there. Just keep in mind that they run off of a microSD card, so you usually install by using a card reader on a PC and installing the image onto the card before you do anything else.

I actually stopped using all of Pis because of little annoyances that added up, but I am a very picky bastard so don’t let that totally dissuade you.

Thanks for looking. I’ll see if I can poke around in their forums.

Easiest? An SNES Classic if you can find one for sale. It is really just a trivially hackable linux pc that comes with SNES controllers and has a nice interface. For something you can definitely buy new and don’t want to have to hack anything, probably a steam deck with the dock and a controller because of how easy it is to set up. All of those options are much more expensive than something like a raspberry pi with retropie, but they are easier.