Sounds s lot more fair than the experience I had at home!

Three kids crammed in front of one computer. One on keyboard, one on mouse and one on joystick. The one on joystick was at the worst disadvantage. A small nudge was a good way to sabotage rebuilding your fortress.

I enjoyed Rampart tremendously back in the day. It had a lot of ports, but I'm surprised it hasn't had any remakes or clones in the last 30 years.

Start with getting some experience before considering buying a boat. Not only can you lose your investment, but your life. Job a club, take lessons, make friends at the local yacht club, volunteer as crew. Requirements for being a skipper vary quite a bit between countries. Some let anyone go up to a certain size, others require certifications even for small dinghies.

The bigger the boat, the harder it is too both manoeuvre and maintain.

Do you want something small that you can roll into the water on a ramp when you use it?

Do you want something big enough that requires a crane to get in the water? Prepare to spend a week cleaning, sanding, polishing, waxing and applying new anti-foul yearly.

I started with Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 on the VIC-20, if that counts as an operating system. Otherwise GeOS on the Commodore 64.

First Linux distro was slackware 3.0.

I'd only use zram if I had no swap device/file.

In my experience zswap performs better, and doesn't get in the way of hibernation. In fact, most distros enable it by default today, and it doesn't always work so great with zram.

I guess it all depends on perspective.

I love that it's free compared to those $10-20k licenses for similar systems.

I love that there are good package managers.

I love that it's open source.

I hate that it's GPLv2.

I hate how bloated the kernel is. I'd like it to fit into main memory.

I hate how it's not POSIX-certified.

It depends on how far down the rabbithole you go.

I switched to Linux 27 years ago. My wife asks me to help her with her Windows computer every now and then, and I can't really do it for more than a few minutes before my blood pressure is in the risk zone.

MorphOS. It's still kicking.

I've always been quite deadline driven. So the week before going to the breakpoint demo party I wrapped up a Commodore 64 demo in a long series of all-nighters.

When I finally crashed I was dreaming 6502 assembly.

In no order:

• Diablo 2
• Chrono trigger
• The incredible machine
• Loom
• Bravely default
• The secret of monkey island
• Prince of Persia
• Rampart
• Papers, please
• Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders

I'd get a HDMI capture card for the tablet, if it supports USB-otg. Just run a program to preview the input on the tablet and connect it like any monitor to your laptop.

Overwhelmingly positive.