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And then beat it two more times.

The story changes slightly each time kinda like Nier: Automata.

I would have happily bought the game. I'm still having a ton of fun playing with friends.

But I have never, and will never, spend even a cent on it.

You google the game to see if smarter people have done the investigating.

If not, you parse logs and errors best you can and try to determine what needs enabling. If you get it working, share it on protondb.

Generally though, enabling "everything" doesn't come with any direct drawbacks. This is basically what bottles will do when you tell it you want to run a game, which will then allow most games to work fine.

The latest version of GE is generally what you want, too, as wine/GE isn't supposed to have regressions requiring the use of an older version with some games.

You don't even have to do that.

Wine managers like Bottles make it extremely easy to slap on whatever fixes and wine variants you might need.

Yes, and every single time, it was because filesystems have ways to recover when things go wrong.

But make no mistake, things went wrong. Every time. Even if no files were damaged, the next system accessing the volume would run into a file system that wasn't exited properly.

And while "never do it while it's being accessed" improves your chances, due to write caching you can't actually know if the medium is still writing or reading. Or internally in the middle of a process organising data structures. Or being checked for damage by a background process because the filesystem was flagged for repair due to inconsistencies. Or in the case of spinning rust, in the middle of a background defrag. Or in the case of flash storage in the middle of a trim.

If you have a forgiving boss you could tell him "fuck you" to his face every morning... But why would you? Maybe one morning he'll be cranky, and that one time he'll take offence and actually fire you.

It was always a problem. On all systems.

Filesystems are resilient, but one that is actually designed to reliably survive being physically disconnected without warning, does not exist.

Windows has always had a "make safe to unplug" button, too.

Not that it matters if you were discarding the drive.

Don't do that.

fstab is just a config file so the computer knows what drives and storage volumes its supposed to have when it boots.

You can add and remove drives without ever editing fstab. Plugging something in should give you the option to mount it in your file explorer, and in the same place you should be able to "eject" it before disconnecting the actual cable.

No it isn't. I've played the first game thrice, the second twice, and genuinely adore both for a variety of reasons.

Forbidden West is literally the only game I've bothered taking a week off work to play on launch, and then did it again on PC to play the DLC.

There is nothing about Horizon which makes it's popularity unwarranted. The fans are real and there's tons of us.

I'll admit the idea of a live action adaptation felt stupid, but after my parents got to experience the story of the The Last Of Us through the actually well executed adaptation, I was cautiosly ready to wait and see if they might not pull of a decent adaptation of Zero Dawn for them to watch, too.

Hearing of its cancellation is no great loss though.

Pacman is the actual system package manager.

Yay is an AUR helper, a program that automates all the steps of installing something from the AUR.

The AUR or Arch User Repository is a way for individuals in the community to easily distribute software, or create software installers, without going though the work of getting something into the official repos.

Here's the first thing I do on a new system, yay -S pamac. This will install pamac, a GUI for browsing, installing and uninstalling packages. (Both normal repos and AUR)

Generally, packages from the AUR get compiled by your system and then installed. This can be really slow, hence there is often a "-bin" version of packages that installs a pre-compiled binary.

You can also find "-git" versions of packages, these install the very latest version directly from the development repo.

Probably in addition to buying the game for 80 or 90 bucks, with a "super deluxe" version above 100.

sigh of relief

Not really. Just install bottles, usage is extremely self-explanatory as the UI is very good.

But if you need more details, the bottles docs are great.