There was a point where the terminal emulator environment just clicked in my head. Binary and library paths, specifically dynamic linking. Compiling with the correct flags… Just building a small CLI tool in C.

Then having all of that wrapped up in tmux with a mixture of emacs and vim on the side. Essentially my whole user environment felt like a flexible IDE where I was coding close to the metal.

I use i2p for torrents exclusively. It’s slow but totally private so I can seed without needing to mess about with a VPN.

There is a slightly smaller community but the people on there have similar tastes to me: linux textbooks, GOG games, jazz albums, etc.

I couldn’t stand much of Outer Worlds tbh. Avowed has been a 100% upgrade from my perspective. Not being able to kill NPCs and having no repercussions for stealing just seemed like they were transposing PoE mechanics to the first person perspective.

“Powerful” probably wouldn’t be the word I’d use given that security updates have stopped. Maybe “foolhardy”?

Part of why linux has been a successful long term project is by making decisions conservatively. Other projects like cURL do the same. Incremental improvements over time.

It seems like there is a culture clash with the rust devs who are pushing for changes faster than the long term project maintainers are comfortable with.