Not certain of the intention, but if you’re doing a multi-camera edit, and you’ve cut all the crap video footage out and your video track is full of holes, but your audio track continues beneath, then you might want to mark all the gaps for where you need to add cutaways or 2nd camera shots?

There’s a few games in development around the edges of this type of thing - though I think nothing as polished currently.

Perhaps worth looking at:
Following Seas
Sailwind
Salt
Seafarer The Ship Sim
Sail the Seas

I’ve played Sailwind and Following Seas quite a bit, but not the other three (they’re on my wishlist at the moment) - I can’t guarantee any of these are good, or do what you’re after - but maybe a starting point for looking.

You might find them more like “Euro Truck Simulator on a boat” than “Derail Valley/Beam NG on a boat”.

Accepting “free” games off of Epic would be disrespectful to the 200 unplayed Steam games I already have.

It’s basically doing what “playonlinux” used to do. It separates containers of different Wine setups - so for example you have some old Windows game that only runs in a window at 1024x768, you make one “bottle” to deal with that, but it doesn’t mess up the settings for running a separate “bottle” for a more recent a Windows-only utility program, which requires a fullscreen desktop, and dotnet4.5 and directx etc.

It also gives the setup a GUI, and lots of dropdown menus for setup, which is easier for most people.

There’s a bit of crossover with Lutris - though Lutris works particularly well for games that are already in its database, but it’s sometimes quite difficult to install anything outside of that - I found bottles to be a lot easier for installing fairly obscure or forgotten software - generally old games, obscure games and hardware configuration utilities for A/V equipment, but also sometimes stuff like indie games or other games that aren’t on Steam.

I do use Playonlinux, Lutris and Bottles, as for some reason, sometimes I’ve been able to get a program running in one and not the other. I very rarely install anything on the default “raw” system Wine any more.

Check if the endeavouros software repository has something called “Input Remapper”.

You can reassign a key or axis to any other key or axis.

I use this for a couple of old games that insist on numpad keys, on my laptop that has no numpad.

My only question with the Framework laptop is still “Is it upgradable to have physical buttons on the touchpad yet?”

That would perhaps make sense, but it’s actually the “2TB model” (steam machine on its own) and the “2TB bundle” (steam machine with 1 steam controller)

There’s quite a quality difference between the different voices.

For example in the English (UK) ones, there’s 8 of them, which vary between “pretty good” and “robotic”.

“Yeah, it does do that, doesn’t it?”

*click*

"Yeah, I know, it used to better, didn’t it?

*click*

“Yeah, I don’t know why they changed it”

*shuffle*

“No, no, it’s not just you, I’ve heard loads of people saying the same”

*click*

I’d go for Uboat first, as it’s the one that’ll make most use of your new graphic abilities.

Also, you’ll be able to put it down after a while - most of the other games on that list are just setting yourself up for 200 hours of addiction. You need to ease yourself into that.

It’s a good improvement. They needed this years ago (or ideally, when they first started using snaps).

I use a Logitech G920 with pedals and gear stick, which (as far as I remember) worked out of the box.

I used to have the simpler (and much cheaper) Logitech Driving Force GT, which had accelerate/brake pedals, but didn’t have a clutch or proper gearstick, but did have a sort of “up/down gear changer” sort of thing.

Anyway, they basically both worked on Linux.

I use pyLinuxWheel for configuration, but think Oversteer is generally used by most people these days.

[Edit]
Logitech Driving Force GT
between £30 and £150 2nd hand

Logitech G920
£100 - £150 2nd hand
£170 - £230 new

Try a £30 Driving Force GT. If you don’t like it, you’ve not lost too much. Resell it for £30 again. If you love it, but start dreaming of clutch control and manual gear shifting, then you know you need to invest more.

If you’ve ever used a video editor before, it’s very intuitive and easy to use, and perfectly capable of professional results in most cases.

Save often, though :)

That’s some damn fine maths, thank you :)

They’ll get round to it. They’re doing the graphics first. They’re currently making individual 3D models of “all the stars”.

Mint, after about 20 years of Linux.

I think I tested a bunch of Linux distros about 2006, and settled on running Ubuntu v6 on an old laptop for occasional use and learning. Ubuntu was brown and it looked beautiful.

Later, I dual booted Ubuntu and Windows XP on my main computer from about 2008 until about 2014ish - I remember being annoyed that I had to install some launcher thing called “Steam for Linux” so I could play this newly released Linux game called “Crusader Kings II” (I was sure I’d never use this “Steam” thing for anything else).

2 laptops and one desktop bought since 2014 have been Linux exclusive. The old desktop still chugs along on Ubuntu, having been upgraded through versions for over a decade, and somehow still works. The old laptop and newer laptop (my main machine) have only ever run Mint.

Turns out that “Steam” thing was quite useful.

It’s not so much forgetting, but waiting until Windows “changes it” - the “yeah, just go here in the settings… oh… there’s not a setting any more… there used to be an option for this…”

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It’s on my to-do list when I have a bit of time :)

Lovely idea, and I’m glad to see a “real forum”.