Yeah, now that I got the storage I save a whole lot more locally. GOG offline installers is probably the largest folder on my NAS though. :)

As discussed elsewhere in this thread I use both for different purposes.
Notepad for me is a glorified clipboard for stuff I don’t want to be saved while stuff in Notepad++ is things where I like having the files autosaved for the future.

It is now. ;-)
Cheers for the site!

True enough. My own machines are already running linux, except for the work laptop and that isn’t mine.

Depends on what parts of banished caught you. The mod lets you build much more visually pleasing cities by adding lots of different housing styles and so on. It also add many more production chains. Was many years since I played it and I think it was an earlier version of it.

Seems to still be up on the workshop too:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=849019386

Switching to management then, have you played Banished?
Have you played the mod Colonial Charter? Latest version is 1.76 and I found a GDrive download here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/banished/colonial_charter_mod
Mod makers site seems down.

You might wanna either backup %appdata%\Notepad++\backup\ or go to Settings->Preferences->Backup and change the directory into a folder that is already hitting your backups. Personally I have it aimed at a folder that is cloud synced (and that cloud has a local backup on my NAS).

You desperately need to add a Summary and split the text into paragraphs with some Headers
(or if that’s too much work go for a short tl;dr in the bottom or top.)

I use n++ for fast notes that I might need later, such as quickly making a step-by-step instruction as I go along, and notepad as a glorified clipboard for stuff I don’t want to be available later.
Having more than 100 notepad++ tabs would trigger the neat freak in me and force me to go through them all to save the important ones and delete the unneeded ones.

No need to download anything really.

1. Go to System -> Optional features and verify that Notepad is listed and if it isn’t add it.
2. Go to Apps -> Advanced settings for apps -> App executions aliases and disable Notepad.
3. Enjoy the classic notepad again.

Yeah, that sounds unreasonable. I guess I’ll have to use yt-dlp more to backup videos I enjoy.

1. Go to System -> Optional features and verify that Notepad is listed and if it isn’t add it.
2. Go to Apps -> Advanced settings for apps -> App executions aliases and disable Notepad.
3. Enjoy the classic notepad again.

It only changes it so that you get your +5 choices if you have even one skill up in the category.
Without it the best way to play is to choose your main skills as Minor Skills and skills that are easy to avoid leveling up (and preferably easy to level up when you want to) as Major Skills to always get 3x +5 every level up.
With it you can let your character have major skills that you actively use during gameplay without gimping yourself.

Original is on GOG for 1/10th of the price too, tons of great mods to improve both graphics and gameplay.
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/oblivion/mods?sort=downloads
A must have for me is the All Plus 5 mod so I don’t feel forced to power game my starting skills.

A classic one would be to go for BG1 and BG2
Then either play the enhanced editions with EET or play the originals with Baldur’s Gate Trilogy to allow you to play all three games as a singular campaign (as well as running BG1 in the same engine as BG2 if you go for the originals)

Half your age plus seven makes the gap smaller the younger you are.
20/2 + 7 = 17 or a 3 year gap
30/2 + 7 = 22 or an 8 year gap
40/2 + 7 = 27 or a 13 year gap

I’d say the link and an archive copy is good enough, though I definitely wouldn’t mind proper referencing.
https://archive.ph/jc6IF

Options if it’s to protect against local disasters such as fire:

1. Having a NAS at a family member / friends house as a backup location for your NAS (over vpn) is an option. Works best if they also need an offsite backup with you being able to spare space for it on your NAS in return.
2. Having at least two usb drives as backup locations for the NAS and rotated as often as you think necessary and having at least one stored offsite at a family member / friends house.
3. Rent a proper 1U rack space in the city data centre and setup your own “cloud”, definitely the most expensive option and total overkill if offsite backup is the only reason.

Personally I would probably go for option two and bring the usb drive with me for a weekly coffee with my parents, they’d enjoy the visit and I enjoy knowing that my backup isn’t in the hands of Amazon. I’d go for option 1 if my internet was better.

Re: Kernel Version. The latest Linux Mint 22.1 still runs Kernel Version 6.8, if you want a newer one than that you must add it yourself without depending on Mints own updates.

Re: PPAs and repositories.
Might be that there is an option through GUI to add the kisak/kisak-mesa and get the latest Mesa drivers, but I’ve not found a single guide that mentions how to do it through GUI.

[SOLVED]Can’t get a singe game to run on Mint or POP
Original Post here:

Hi guys, it’s me again.

My issues is that no windows game on Steam will run. With any launch option or proton version (tried about 10). Most just doesn’t open at all. (Click play, nothing happens)

Solution: Pop!_OS and Linux Mint doesn’t have a kernel new enough to support the Mesa 25 drivers needed for my 9070XT. These commands in the terminal was the fix for this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

https://sopuli.xyz/post/25130506

My point was that if the distro had instead been say Nobara (Fedora-based gaming-focused distro made by GloriousEggroll for ease of use for his dad) then no fix would’ve been needed at all as it already run new enough linux kernel and come prepackaged with all the goodies a gamer need.

Distributions can be hit or miss depending on the user and hw for sure.
Mint 22.1 still runs Kernel 6.8 whoch means you’ll be hitting the terminal to either upgrade to mainline kernel or add extra repositories for the latest drivers if you have f.e. an AMD Radeon 9070.