For my main workstation and main laptop:

• Cosmic themed GNOME - I just like the way it looks and works without any changes. The basic tiling functions are something I find helpful at times too.
• Plasma 6 - It works pretty well and looks nice. I don’t do a lot of customization, so it’s not a big deal to me. For my other machines I’m currently using Cinnamon, GNOME, Budgie, and LXDE.

https://blissos.org/ is another one I just remembered as well.

https://www.android-x86.org/

My two favorite companions in the modern era!

Found some links:

Bans in March 2023

More bans Aug. 2023

Some bans reversed

If I remember right, about a year ago they were banning a lot of Linux players. It might be happening again.

I appreciate the information! I may have to give at least some of the episodes a try. I’ll admit I’m not super thrilled about the interviews I’ve seen where RTD mentions leaning even harder into fantasy than before, but we’ll see!

In your opinion, are the stories in the new season anywhere near the quality level of the 10th and 11th Doctors? I started noticing I was enjoying them less part way into Smith’s run, and it felt like it was an overall downward trend until I stopped watching after Series 9. I thought both Smith and Capaldi did really well with their portrayal, but overall I didn’t think the stories and writing had the same spark that the earlier ones had. It might just be the fact that they were more serialized though.

I don’t play games to get in the mood for a season, but I’ve noticed the last couple of years that I’m likely to play some games a lot more in certain seasons!

• Spring: Stardew Valley
• Summer: I don’t have anything specific here.
• Fall: Farming Simulator
• Winter: XCOM/XCOM 2

I’ve never heard of this show, but from what you’ve said and the quick research I’ve done it sounds like something I would be interested in. Thanks for the mention of it!

I’m going to have to spend some more time playing it again! It worked fine on my desktop install previously, so I’m curious to know what they changed to bump it to verified. I’m guessing UI tweaks or something with the launcher.

You can (at least the last time I ran an install) get both 10 and 11 installed without a Microsoft account, 11 just requires this process to do it. If you have an old ISO of 11 around it should allow a local account if you don’t connect to the internet, but they apparently patched that out now.

True, that would be better. I was just going to watch them two nights in a row, but I might do that instead!

Is anyone here planning to watch the episodes over the time they’re supposed to occur? I’m thinking of watching part 1 tomorrow due to it being the date on the calendar onscreen, and part 2 the next day.

My favorite theme is definitely Deep Space Nine!

Favorite scene is a little harder though. I’ll probably have to go with the montage scene in the last DS9 episode, which had a slow instrumental medley of The Way You Look Tonight and the DS9 incidental music.

I also think the scene in DS9: The Siege of AR-558 where Bashir is playing the recording of I’ll Be Seeing You is really good too. It works even better on a rewatch after you see how important the song becomes to Nog.

Yep, I didn’t convert either of my accounts over as well.

I would just try it and see what you think of it! It’s completely free. Minetest is the program you install on your computer, and then there are lots of different games that you can download and try inside of Minetest. There’s more besides Minecraft-likes that you can try, and there are definitely mods available. I never modded Minecraft though, so I’m not sure how they compare.

As to system requirements, it could run pretty well on a six year old Android phone the last I tried. It might be worth a shot on your laptop! Be aware that it’ll probably be a somewhat different experience than Minecraft, but not necessarily in a bad way!

Yes, it often is!

Exactly! Better all around for me. The player base isn’t as big, but I’m not really an online player.

Yes, it’s certainly changed for the worse since I’ve played it. I quit fairly soon after they announced that I would need to eventually migrate to a Microsoft account. Seeing some of the things they’ve done since then doesn’t make me miss it!

I haven’t had the urge to play it recently, so I haven’t tried it since the name change. I heard they were diverging a bit from being a Minecraft clone, are there many large changes?