Auster

You press F4 and a window within Dolphin comes up, already “cd-ed” to the current directory, the terminal working as Linux’s default bash terminal: https://media.ani.social/01/97/74/79/47/67/7d/23/b3/7d/49e623d62d04.webp

Seems like a simple thing? Indeed. But it’s a small detail that saves a lot of time in the long run for helping with the workflow. No need to switch back and forth between two different windows.

KDE’s Dolphin + Konsole’s integration to Dolphin is great for seamlessly managing files with an UI and terminal hybrid.

Though closed source (overly dramatic music plays), the text editor Sublime Text works great, and at least with major version 3 (last I checked it was in version 4), it can be converted to AppImage without major issues (at worst, paths with spaces have issues).

Firejail is great for starting specific programs offline.

Newsboat is the best RSS feed reader I could find for Linux, specifically due to, with its inbuilt macros, I can set it up to open in new tabs several posts from a comically large amount of feeds.

In my opinion:

If memory serves me right (as I played the game a while back), Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse’s intro stage acts as a tutorial, but it’s so seamless to gameplay and story that it barely feels like so. Iirc, also same for Valkyria Chronicles 4’s first mission.

And that I remember better due to playing relatively recently, Final Fantasy VI and Catherine’s tutorials are well integrated to their games’ specific flows, the former being a series of NPCs you talk to, something you already do a lot in the game, and the latter being quick, straight to the point and given like it is a normal part of the narration and the increasingly frenetic (for a puzzler) gameplay.

And also if memory serves me right, Dirge of Cerberus and Outlive both have optional missions in their main menus that act as tutorials, that don’t feel like a chore, and that if you ignore them, the game is still sufficiently manageable.

In lack of further context, and thus conjecturing, maybe as a leash/ransom? “If you walk out of our (Google’s) line, we will kill potentially decades of your history”.

Or rather from what the context entails, setup with Orca.

Didn’t mean it isn’t, only that maybe he should take a break if things keep breaking for him. Did it myself a lot early on my Linux usage, and it also helped a lot.

Sounds indeed overly rant-y and tired. Stubborness is no good if it becomes an obsession, so doing something else if things start to break may help cool one’s head down and think where things are really going wrong.

Personally, I think piracy is a tool of the desperate, the disheartened and those that don’t care for awarding merit. The desperate if a software is too hard to come by legitimately, the disheartened as a form of protest if the software/company has draconian practices at play, and those that don’t award merit because they would, if not never, at least rarely buy/rent anything if not forced to.

FOSS is nice and all, but do mind people are expending their time in such projects, so if you think a project is good and you can afford it, I’d suggest supporting financially the creators.