Tumbleweed is a rolling release distro while Kubuntu has point releases. I’m not sure which is better for new users. I’m leaning towards rolling, it stays up to date.

Same layout for me, I hadn’t used it in a while, feels like it wastes some screen real estate this way.

These are my recommendations:

• Sonic 1 to 3 (& Knuckles)
• Quackshot starring Donald Duck
• Zero Wing
• Ecco: Tides of Time
• Alien Storm
• Zool
• Shadow Dancer: Secret of Shinobi
• World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
• Atomic Runner
• Daffy Duck in Hollywood
• Aladdin
• The Incredible Hulk
• Dick Tracy
• Virtua Racing
• Super Smash TV

The Phaser only works on a CRT, I thought it was (primarily?) a Master System peripheral.

Check out “ballistics”. Really fun racing game.

Preface this by saying it has been a few years. I used to have a windows phone and when the platform died I used a “dumb” phone for a year until my wife told me to get an Android device.

I was using a Nokia ngage qd. It’s a small phone that has a peculiar form factor, shaped like a controller. It was made as a gaming handheld, so it has a bunch of gaming apps and over the year a lot of Homebrew stuff. It definitely came from a different era. You need to explicitly lock the phone otherwise it would only lock the keys to prevent pocket dialing. Locking the keys does not require a code to unlock, only the manual locking does iirc.

Because it has games, it was still a great time killer in situations. It’s has a small proprietary jack, but I have the original earphones so could listen to music (no mp3, but ogg).

Biggest pet peeve was not being able to sync my calendar. It uses a protocol I couldn’t find a setup for. Device also utilized a WAP browser, which is useless now.

Calling and texting: great. Games: great, sometimes crashy or won’t load. Homebrew: hit and miss, depending.

The pinephone has slightly better specs, is equally outdated, but the price point is a lot better.

Pretty sure I can solder something together using a USB-PD decoy 😄 Made a bunch of barrel jack adapters the same way.

From schuko to shocko

What kind of “skill” or “me” issue is there with bugs? I make the windows flicker by sheer lack of skill? The Steam or Firefox windows stop updating because I have a “particular setup”? Those are bugs. I did not have these issues on Gnome X11.

Just stop and think a little.

edit: here is another anecdote from today. My son has different hardware than me, but also runs Gnome Wayland. He had an issue with his microphone in a game, it kept feeding into itself. So I alt-tabbed to check if the source that was active was the monitor of the microphone, since we were messing with easy effects earlier, and it was indeed still on monitor. I turned the monitor setting off and went back into the game. Now we had no mic input. No problem, let’s check again, we probably forgot to change the source from the monitor to the actual microphone. Alt-tab did nothing, Windows/Super key did nothing. He didn’t want to quit the game, so he continued as it was. Must be another skill issue, not being able to alt-tab or bring up the overview with the super key after doing it once. I still am going to pin this on “gaming using Gnome Wayland is buggy”.

Edit2: waaaiit, it just clicked. You’re one of those pedantic people. It’s not a “Wayland, the protocol”, issue, it’s a “Wayland implementation in gnome in combination with my hardware and selection of games and streaming software issue”! I hope that makes more sense. Sorry, I thought I could simplify it by the way I may have said it, I’m sure everyone else understood what I meant.

Congratulations. Your system is bug free. I just sat my system down and told them about yours and they promised to try harder.

What am I even supposed to do with that? You’re one of those guys working at an internal helpdesk replying “it works on my machine” and closing tickets.

such as windows no longer updating, or windows flickering

Learn to read, this was in my first post.

The Pagemaster, so underrated. Great story about overcoming fear.

Look up the original Tik-Tak from the BRTN. it’s non spoken animation with shapes, sounds and music. Great for toddlers. All the music is ingrained in me :D

Other good show from the BRTN was “Er was eens”. They are split up in 4 main "seasons: de mens, de aarde, de ruimte and het leven.

History, how earth was formed and evolved, space and human biology.

Dutch and French, I’m not sure if it was ever dubbed English, but my kids watched this on repeat.

Remove the nightmare episode from pingu until they are older, that one caused some issues 🫩

Let’s see how this plays out with windows 11 😄

Whatever, keep telling yourself it’s bug free and keep living in your fairy-tale.

This isn’t a concern of what might be or hearsay, it is buggy.

I’ll try and record it, if it doesn’t crash of course. There’s things I know that will crash with certainty so I avoid these actions which is pretty damn annoying. These didn’t occur on gnome x11 because I do this often, I had no such issues there, so it’s not vibes.

Stop spreading your wishful thinking as facts and sugarcoating things for whatever reason.

I heard they’re using sticks of RAM lately

Games and streaming on Gnome wayland is just very buggy compared to x11. Alt-tabbing out of a game is gauranteed to have issues, such as windows no longer updating, or windows flickering. It just is what it is.

My screen is wider than it is tall. I have more horizontal screen real estate than vertical, why are you forcing me to waste vertical space? I wanna move it to the left again…

BF6 requires secure boot? …fuck outta here…

Huh? Why? That’s none of the game’s concern.