Lutris uses separate prefixes and doesn’t do any deduplication. You will need a separate tool for that or just use a filesystem like btrfs that supports deduplication.

I’ve never used bottles, so I don’t know how it handles deduplication.

No, you can copy wine prefixes around all you want. You may have to adjust the graphics settings in the games though.

X11 isn’t secure and it can’t be fixed apparently

Which is why so much work has been going into Wayland, which will replace X11.

It seems like they need to put a motor in the dragon trunk to perform a deorbit burn after it’s detached.

It would need suitable engines for the deorbit burn. I’m not sure that the RCS thrusters would be powerful enough. The raptors are too powerful, even one at minimum throttle would probably rip the ISS apart.

With Wayland, programs still can’t restore their window position or size. It sure would be nice if they could get basic functionality working.

I would only recommend using it if a native package is not available or you need a newer version than what’s available.

Half the time I will just compile from source when I see how much space a flatpak and its dependencies will take up though.

Controlling that many engines back then was very difficult. A lot of the N1 issues were from the limited processing power in its computer.

It needs more information about what went wrong. That’s about as useful as a windows BSOD.

They’re going to need something a bit faster to chase a Falcon 9.

Yes, the trunk didn’t burn up completely.

You can zero out the free space on each partition then pipe the output from dd into gzip if you want to save space.

If the machine has 4GB of RAM, then MATE, XFCE, LXDE, and LXQT will work well. I’ve used all of them on older computers. The distro doesn’t really matter. If it has 8GB of RAM or more, it will run any DE you want to use.

If the machine has less than 4GB of RAM and can’t be upgraded, it’s not going to be very useful. Sure, you can put a lightweight window manager on them, but they are not going to run a web browser well. They could still be used for teaching students how to install Linux though.

There are very lightweight media players available that will run on anything with enough CPU power to decode whatever codec you are playing. It’s modern web browsers that will be an issue with less than 4GB of RAM. There are lighter web browsers, but they usually don’t support javascript or have very limited support for it.

A lot of people see articles showing how to do something and it uses the terminal and they think that’s the only way to do it. In reality, it’s just easier to say “copy and paste these commands” than it is to walk someone through how to do it in a GUI.

It’s only an issue if you want to use Wayland and that issue will be fixed soon. There’s also the Framework 16 if you want an AMD GPU.

System76 has gaming laptops with Linux preloaded, but they start at around $1700 if you want a dedicated GPU.

Linux was hard when you had to install it from a box of floppies, download your software over a 9600 baud modem and get your documentation from a book. Back then, people that had computers knew a lot more than they do today. Most people today wouldn’t be able to get a computer running if it came with a blank hard drive and a windows installer DVD because all they know how to use is a web browser.

Most people would have no issues using a computer with Linux preinstalled, especially if it has KDE, which looks very similar to windows. Hell, some people probably wouldn’t know the difference as long as it had a Firefox and chrome shortcut on the desktop.

I just use the exhaust fan for temperature control.

I made a sleeve of aluminum foil bubble insulation for mine. I taped it together with aluminum HVAC tape. It makes the enclosure heat up quicker, but I have to run the enclosure fan on longer prints to keep it from getting too hot.