A 386 is probably underpowered, but a 486 could do it for sure. I used to play all the SNES games at 33mHz back in the day.

SNES emulators ran just fine on <100 mHz CPUs three decades ago. You’d have to try pretty hard to find a PC that couldn’t do that nowadays.

TempleOS would fall under the laws

So would DOS and Windows 95, but those haven’t had any updates in a couple years. Surely they’ll be updated to comply.

It has neither the positive reputation you assume

This is true. Quebec French is often looked down on by other native French speakers. It’s seen as a rougher version of the language, mostly due to its accent and different pronunciations, and often Quebecois’ simplified vocabulary compared to the French. But what the previous comment was about is that Quebec French is closer to what French sounded like a couple centuries ago, and the language in France has shifted in a different way.

nor do Quebecois say “le stationnement”.

Yes we do.

Quebec has a problem with English in particular as it is seen as overtaking its culture. As such, a lot of English words that the French have directly adopted are instead translated into Frencher versions of the words. Stationnement vs parking is one example, magasinage vs shopping is another.

(recognizing that route is its root word)

You could also ask people how they pronounce route and get different answers.

Have you ever cleaned out a lint trap? All that lint used to be part of the clothes.

After all what is a digital file if not a bunch of writing that instructs the computer to draw pixels on your screen.

A digital file is just a number, potentially a very big number, but that’s all it is.

The regular shoelace knot becomes insecure when you do starting knot and the butterfly in the same direction. This also causes your knot to rotate 90 degrees and not lay correctly on your shoe. If you do the starting knot backwards and the butterfly normally, then the knot is more secure and lays neatly on your shoe.

I’ve heard good things

You could just have a UI that runs you through all the questions and prompts from Windows and then reboots and installs a new OS without any other interaction.

You could even have it ask which files/folders the user wants to transfer over so they don’t lose everything.

People buy Nvidia for different reasons, but not everyone faces any issues with it in Linux, and so they see no reason to change what they’re already familiar with.

Its becoming like the 2k games where you are buying 2k26 in the middle of 2025.

Buddy, NHL '94 on SNES came out in 1993, and NHLPA '93 came out a year earlier in 1992. Every year, cars come out with the next year’s model.

I think 2 weeks before the end of the year is pretty reasonable for a year’s review. That’s how everybody’s been doing reviews for a long time.

If the drive is in use, how does it remount?

How slow are we talking? All my GOG downloads through Heroic have always been as fast as my connection allows. It sounds like there may be another issue at play.

Is there a VPN involved?

I used it for a long time, but ads kept slipping through occasionally. And then sometimes it wouldn’t work at all for a while.

Alternate Player seemed to.always work until recently. It would drop the resolution when ads were being blocked, but otherwise worked fine until a few days ago.

Part of the issue is that Linux does not auto-mount connected drives unless specifically configured to. So every time you boot your Steam Deck, the drive is detected but not mounted.

Normally, you do this via the fstab file. I’ll admit I’m not sure how well that works with an external drive.

Really it depends what you use your computer for. If you’re a casual user, and all you do is browse the web, watch videos, and play games, the transition is no worse than moving from Windows to Mac. There are some small quirks to get used to, but anybody should be able to figure out 90% of it in a matter of minutes.

That’s a pretty atrong word to describe the situation.

Only the display name can be changed. It will still be /c/steamdeck, but now shows up as “Steam Hardware”

Congee specifically, I would count as a porridge, but the thickness can be easily adjusted by adding more water or broth, or by simmering it for a shorter time.