Acknowledging the issues and having a plan is a first good sign of trust. Executing is the other, so we’ll see how this will going. I personally lost trust and interest into Manjaro and switched away. From personal experience, there were technical issues (caused by Manjaro), and social issues (didn’t like the administration and project leader). But I hope they “recover” and be better, and survive.

I agree here. I also want to add, it depends on who maintains the Flatpak too. It’s not always the official developers.

Sure (myself neither). I just don’t understand why he replies that to me, as if it is an argument to make a point for or against my reply. And seeing that some people downvoted me confuses me even more. I just said I don’t understand why he replied to me. Why would anyone downvote without explaining?? What is the reason people got it the wrong way? Really I’m just confused.

Enjoy. :-) Every day there are new or updated ones (I mean on the websites where I get them). This keeps me busy and can’t wait to update this package next year again. :-p

This is a tough question to answer, there is so much to choose from. I didn’t play most of them. But I think there are interesting ones as a starting point:

Super Mario World_

• Hack: Series of short mods with interesting gimmics and level ideas.
• 'the: A non jump and run game, more like an atmospheric adventure, a creepypasta experience.
• Castlemania: Inspired by NES Castlevania style and retro look, a hard game.
• SMW Friends and Rivalry: A more traditional Mario like level design. Full on game with over 90 levels

Chrono Trigger_

• Crimson Echoes: A very high quality production and maybe the best Chrono Trigger Romhack. This was actually never really finished officially, because it got hit by a cease and desist by Square. There is also Flames of Eternity, which took Crimson Echoes and worked on it without permission. Therefore its very controversal.
• Prophets Guile: From the same guys who made Crimson Echoes, another high quality mod. This one is short. It tells the story of Magus, how he rise to power in Kingdom of Zeal.

Final Fantasy 6_

There are actually lots of these complete rebalance and feature rich improvements. I just picked on of them here.

• A Soldiers Contingency (Extended Bestiary Edition): Comprehensive gameplay expansion and overhaul. It’s still the same game, but less tedious battles and no grinding, rebalancing and ton of features and addons.

Super Mario Kart_

• Hyper Street Kart: With characters and items from Street Fighter. It is not the best mod, but noteworthy theme and very popular.
• Mario Kart R: Another popular mod. Has new courses, music and graphics.
• Reverse (Mirror Mode): If you just want to play the same game, but racing to the other direction instead.

F-Zero_

• BS F-Zero Deluxe US: (play v1.1) This one has a very interesting story behind. It is based on the lost BS F-Zero game. Only video footage existed and some fans worked on it to recreate the tracks with computer aided functionalities. The result is very accurate, as if they had the real game. I highly recommend to read articles in the web about this very special mod: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/f-zero-courses-from-a-dead-nintendo-satellite-service-restored-using-vhs-and-ai/

Zelda 3_

• Parallel Remodel: A rework on one of the most popular and old Romhacks for this game, called Parallel Worlds that was known for extreme difficulty. This tries to make it better playable and fair.
• The Hunters Song: A relatively new mod, with 3 new dungeons and story. I actually don’t know too much about this one, it seems to be popular.
• Conkers High Rule Tail: A complete change fo the game. Play as Conker from Conkers BAd Fur Day with lots of new stuff.

Super Metroid_

• Redesign Axeil Edition: Another rework of a classic mod named Redesign, that tries to make it better playable. There are new items, changed physics, new abilities and so on. Still a hard game to play.
• Ancient Chozo: It is based off the original maps, but expands it with new rooms, graphics, puzzles, music and so on.

Star Fox_

• EX: (just play v1.11) New levels, bosses, musics, graphics and ton of features! Play in wireframe mode or use SNES mouse.
• Sunlits STar Fox Minihack: (just play FastRom version) 6 new levels basically. I don’t have much information, but people like it.

Donkey Kong Country_

• Kremlings Revenge Remodel: It is a rework of an older mod. There are new graphics, levels and bonuses. Should be as difficult as the original game.

Look into their description, to learn a bit more before getting into. Or just run them and see what you get.

I’m not sure why you reply this to me directly.

I say as long as Ai exist, real programmers will always have a job and are not replaceable. YOLO Vibelords are replaceable, but only real programmers have the skill to go through the shit. That’s the most secure job ever if you ask me.

The comparison does not hold up, because for watching films it does not matter on what medium it is. But for applications it has huge implications for maintaining versions, updates, creating packages with or without runtimes and dependencies and a repository and so on, that work differently on operating systems and so on. This goes way beyond just the user choosing the format.

AppImages are completely different thing versus Flatpak and Snap.

I feel sorry for anyone relying on Copilot.

I don’t understand the logic. Why would Proton make Linux dependent on Windows binaries? It does not make Linux dependent, but enables to use them. I don’t see any reason why Valve should demand devs to build Linux builds (plus Valve should not demand it, it should be a decision of the developers, Valve should not have that much power in my opinion).

if microsoft changed their apis wouldnt new games just not work on proton?

The same would happen with changes in Linux. And arguably it is worse on Linux. Windows binaries have a higher chance of working through WINE or Proton, than Linux binaries in the future. Plus developers only need one binary build, instead developing for Linux and Windows. Also if Microsoft changes their API, then only games affected using the new API would be affected. And changes and additions happen all the time and the Proton / WINE devs are working all the time too.

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Small note on the download speed of Internet Archive. I think they throttle downloads outside from the US. A VPN might help (it made a huge difference for me in the past), but no guarantees.

Nobody can safe us from C++.

How much is this vibe coded or is the Ai tool Claude just used to assist with code completion and helping in a few topics? Their acknowledgment is as follows and not very clear:

Acknowledgement: AI (mostly Claude) was used in the development of this software. That being said I always test before releasing code.

It is written in Python for Linux and Power Shell for Windows, with almost 3k lines each. I would feel much safe if it used a strongly typed and strict language as Rust, as it would be able to catch some basic errors more easily by design. Which is crucial in context of wiping data, downloading ISOs and installing an operating system. I couldn’t trust this project at the moment. But at least it is open source, so that anyone can look into it.

This is what I would think instinctively too, but still asked as I did not know if my instincts are correct. It’s like starting and stopping the car engine on every traffic light…

Why?

I desperately didn’t watch his video on his own channel, and waited for someone I trust to react to it. I just watched Gardiner Bryant’s reaction to it: On Invidious https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=W680f2iPu5o or YouTube directly https://youtu.be/W680f2iPu5o . (Edit: just a typo)

Yes, Linux based operating systems have still many issues. So does any other operating system. No one said a Linux based operating system is perfect. In fact, Windows has more issues than Linux, that is why people switch.

I have two different views and explanation what could have happened. Choose one. :D

The only benefit of doubt I can give Linus with this choice is, because its praised and recommended a lot. And that Linus is tackling this from a end user perspective who is searching the web and ChatGPT recommendation, coming of fresh from Windows without Linux experience. We all know Linus has Linux experience, but he might go the unexperienced route as a guide. And none of the websites doing these recommendations talk about the transitional phase PopOS is in right now.

But if I assume “bad” intentions, then he very well have made a risky choice by choice. Because he knows the other two will have good experience and then almost nothing controversial would happen = boring video, no interactions in the comment. He might have chose PopOS to boos his channel, not because he really really want to try PopOS again after he got burned so hard last time…