Secure boot is a good thing. It’s a security feature. You want it on whenever possible, unless it’s a huge trouble (like if you have to start manually signing your own keys and adding them to the bios).

Edit: added the word manually

Those projects look great! I will have to check both those out. My problem with a lot of community FPS games is that the community is just too small to play regularly (like Xonotic, for instance).

Do you prefer GoG?

That’s a fine answer, thanks!

Thank you for your thoughtful response. Deep Rock Galactic looks amazing!

This is a very smart and thoughtful perspective. One should consider their time and money as valuable, and not put it in games they disagree with. Do you have any good alternatives to recommend for the most popular Valve FPSs?

Well… They are different genres. JRPGs in general are more popular than CRPGs as a genre (if you define CRPGs as the isometric computer RPGs like Baldur’s Gate or the original Fallout). I think including CRPG-adjacent games on here makes sense, like ARPGs, all of the Bethesda games, Immersive Sims, and all of the BioWare games, but JRPGs just does not make sense to me. If we include all the CRPG-adjacent games, this community could be more successful as they are very popular.

JRPGs and CRPGs branched off in the 80s, and since then the style and approaches of the two genres are very different. CRPGs are a tabletop rpg simulator, where choices and player agency are most important (substance over style). JRPGs are a story-driven spectacle where the main gameplay is strategic party-based combat (style over substance).

I like many types of games. My favorites are probably Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, Quake, Super Metroid, and Super Mario World.

Make sure to use all your threads: make -j4 or however many cores/threads you would like to use

Looking online, I think x220 supports both legacy booting and UEFI. This could be a useful resource

First, of course it is completely fine for /home to be on another drive. As long as it is configured in /etc/fstab correctly, almost any configuration of drives and partitions is okay.

Second, your boot issue sounds very strange. Firstly, x220 has a traditional bios boot, right? So you do not need an /EFI partition, and should install grub to the reserved space on the drive for booting (which if you configured MBR for your drive requires no change, if you configured GPT you need to reserve that space). If you have one of the x220s with libreboot (not sure if that exists, but I used to have an x200 with libreboot flashed for the bios), then your grub version might be very out of date, which could cause issues as well.

I love this channel

See here. Basically, creating a relay for the AT protocol is extremely costly and only possible for big tech companies.

No good reason, and sometimes I do, but I do not own a controller, and I own a 100 Hz monitor, so I prefer games that work well on keyboard and mouse and can run at higher frame rates.

Nope, a lot of software will try to bundle as much dependencies as needed by default, which makes building from source much easier. Distributions will then “unbundle” them, to keep packages reusing system libraries as much as possible

I am currently playing Burnout Paradise, and since that is the only Burnout game I have played (and I don’t like to play games that don’t have PC ports, even though Burnout 3 looks amazing!), that is my favorite.

I am about to 100% Burnout Paradise. Once I do I will make a post about it. It’s a great game, with honestly a few flaws, but it has become one of my favorite games.

1. Need for Speed Most Wanted!
2. Burnout 2
3. Mario Kart Double Dash
4. F-Zero GX
5. Kirby Air Ride

Ok, just did. Works fine.

apt install build-essential
apt build-dep emacs
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-30.1.tar.xz
tar -xf emacs-30.1.tar.xz
./configure —prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Nah, building from source takes a few minutes unless you are building a web browser.