That is indeed a big one!

I have a JD. The degree you get from law school, at least here in the US.

The “D” literally stands for “doctor”… no one ever calls you doctor though.

Not that I use the degree any more. I work in IT now!

Sorry I can’t give any specific advice but I feel your pain. Some of my favorite PC games are from the early 00s and I have found that they are particularly hard to get running on modern systems.

Lutris is the one I have had the most luck with, but it’s a very slow game-by-game process of trial and error.

I hope you figure it out!

It’s almost as if connecting every single electric/electronic device in my house is bad idea!

Look, an alert is an alert…

Look at all the pretty green check marks!

Can someone, anyone, tell me where it is that you work where input speed is the bottleneck in software development?

Because I have genuinely never worked at any company where the main thing holding up development was that developers weren’t typing fast enough.

Lenovo, HP, and Dell are also pretty big players too.

But even Microsoft priced the Surface line as high as they did because they just weren’t moving much hardware in comparison.

Yeah… this… might actually be a good strategy at this point.

Yep, same here. I went to MX after starting with Ubuntu. Now I’m a Debian guy.

I’m a simple man. I see Debian, I upvote.

Is that Xfce?

Slowly reaches for shotgun…

Well, I do wear a lot of hoodies…. But that’s more because I live in the PNW than the fact that I’m a programmer.

I also have the sleeves pushed up to my elbows most of the time. Only wear sunglasses when I’m driving and the sun is in my face.

Yes, a lot of programming language package managers do have similar problems as npm.

Yes. It’s “AI can never fail. It can only be failed.”

So, it looks like Bluefin used to do some PATH gymnastics to keep things working pretty smoothly.

But now, they just make sure that brew is last in the PATH. This prioritizes the CLI commands baked into the image.

Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it!

So far, I will say that I haven’t run into any issues but it’s interesting to learn about some of the pitfalls/limitations too.

It’s all about trade offs, I guess!

I have also been a Bluefin user for a while now…

Could you say more about the PATH issues with brew? Or point me to where I can learn more about them? I was kind of enjoying brew for installing development tools, and was thinking about adopting it on my non-atomic machines too. Should I not do that?

You are amazing, you beautiful lemmy stranger, you.

You and me both. We will be the next version of the COBOL Cowboys.