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I was enjoying this comment very much, and then nearly got whiplash from the twist at the end! Wow. Rediscovers Debian and all the creative possibliites of open

I was enjoying this comment very much, and then nearly got whiplash from the twist at the end! Wow. Rediscovers Debian and all the creative possibliites of open source tooling, and then at the end, sits back for a nice proprietary gaming session. No judgment on a personal level, they have lovely games, of course, and it sounds like a nice ending - but there's so many wonderful games to try inside of the "open-source" realm! Here's a list I was perusing the other day, being quite amazed at all the stuff that was there: https://www.slant.co/topics/1933/~best-open-source-games https://www.slant.co/topics/1933/~best-open-source-games Ones that caught my eye were endless sky, teeworlds, hedgewars, but there are actually loads.

dv35z 2y ago
Thanks for sharing that link! My brothers and I used to play Command & Conquer, so I'm interested in trying OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/ https://www.openra.net/). Maybe you've got ideas on this - I'd love to find a space game that's sort of a mix of Elite Dangerous & X4. Thanks for bearing with the whiplash - my usual approach with open-source is that I try to figure out what the absolute best commercially-available tool is to solve a problem, then I go find out the best open-source equivalent and invest in that for the long term. Recent example (in speech synthesis): I'm prototyping with ElevenLabs (commercial/proprietary), and then investing in PiperTTS (open-source).
- sourcepluck 2y ago
  I wonder if I had a demo of Command & Conquer on a CD we got from some magazine back in the day, because shots from the game seem oddly familiar, and we used to play the odd demo like that on our family Windows XP machine. Not sure if I'm imagining it. OpenRA looks very cool! Added to the list! I'm only picking games back up myself, last I was hard at it was the PS2 a couple of decades ago nearly now. So I could only tell you what an internet search would tell you, i.e., https://alternativeto.net/category/games/space-game/?license=opensource https://alternativeto.net/category/games/space-game/?license... https://github.com/akarnokd/open-ig https://github.com/akarnokd/open-ig I did try Endless Sky recently though, and haven't gotten into the meat of the gameplay, but an hour in, and I think I like where it's going. More space trading, but the storyline is cool, and I like the feel of it. Otherwise, maybe a bit left field, but perhaps something like http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/ http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/ Have yet to try it, but a thread on here about MUDs that I found had a few people who swore by it, so I was very tempted! Terry Pratchett is great, so I imagine the MUD could be very, very fun to get lost in (plus I've discovered MUDs exist, and want to try one).
- sourcepluck 2y ago
  I'm seperating concerns here with a seperate answer: I do exactly the opposite, when it comes to software! I started "learning computers" a few years ago, rather than just pointing and clicking in a Windows 7 laptop, understanding nothing, hoping it all works, being vaguely terrified something might go wrong, panicking if it does. I moved to Linux (Ubuntu first, then tons of distro-hopping, etc etc). I look at what's available in the repositories, and allow that to frame my universe. You don't miss what you don't know. So there's a chance I could be missing some wonderful stuff, sure. However, I've found a solution for everything I've needed at every stage of the past 4 odd years. My understanding has skyrocketed, no real expertise but tons of little things I was terrified of before now seem standard to me, and I feel that exploring terminals and operating systems and text editors and so on has been a big part of that. Documentation and tutorials and all on that side of the "tech world" seem just lovely, and like they're not trying to trick me into anything. Going "open-source-first-and-only", with extremely rare exceptions if I absolutely must, was the key for me there. I understand how not everyone's personal and professional situation permits them to do that though, just sharing my perspective :)

dv35z 2y ago

Thanks for sharing that link! My brothers and I used to play Command & Conquer, so I'm interested in trying OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/ https://www.openra.net/). Maybe you've got ideas on this - I'd love to find a space game that's sort of a mix of Elite Dangerous & X4. Thanks for bearing with the whiplash - my usual approach with open-source is that I try to figure out what the absolute best commercially-available tool is to solve a problem, then I go find out the best open-source equivalent and invest in that for the long term. Recent example (in speech synthesis): I'm prototyping with ElevenLabs (commercial/proprietary), and then investing in PiperTTS (open-source).

sourcepluck 2y ago
I wonder if I had a demo of Command & Conquer on a CD we got from some magazine back in the day, because shots from the game seem oddly familiar, and we used to play the odd demo like that on our family Windows XP machine. Not sure if I'm imagining it. OpenRA looks very cool! Added to the list! I'm only picking games back up myself, last I was hard at it was the PS2 a couple of decades ago nearly now. So I could only tell you what an internet search would tell you, i.e., https://alternativeto.net/category/games/space-game/?license=opensource https://alternativeto.net/category/games/space-game/?license... https://github.com/akarnokd/open-ig https://github.com/akarnokd/open-ig I did try Endless Sky recently though, and haven't gotten into the meat of the gameplay, but an hour in, and I think I like where it's going. More space trading, but the storyline is cool, and I like the feel of it. Otherwise, maybe a bit left field, but perhaps something like http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/ http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/ Have yet to try it, but a thread on here about MUDs that I found had a few people who swore by it, so I was very tempted! Terry Pratchett is great, so I imagine the MUD could be very, very fun to get lost in (plus I've discovered MUDs exist, and want to try one).
sourcepluck 2y ago
I'm seperating concerns here with a seperate answer: I do exactly the opposite, when it comes to software! I started "learning computers" a few years ago, rather than just pointing and clicking in a Windows 7 laptop, understanding nothing, hoping it all works, being vaguely terrified something might go wrong, panicking if it does. I moved to Linux (Ubuntu first, then tons of distro-hopping, etc etc). I look at what's available in the repositories, and allow that to frame my universe. You don't miss what you don't know. So there's a chance I could be missing some wonderful stuff, sure. However, I've found a solution for everything I've needed at every stage of the past 4 odd years. My understanding has skyrocketed, no real expertise but tons of little things I was terrified of before now seem standard to me, and I feel that exploring terminals and operating systems and text editors and so on has been a big part of that. Documentation and tutorials and all on that side of the "tech world" seem just lovely, and like they're not trying to trick me into anything. Going "open-source-first-and-only", with extremely rare exceptions if I absolutely must, was the key for me there. I understand how not everyone's personal and professional situation permits them to do that though, just sharing my perspective :)