I just finished watching the first two episodes and thought it was excellent. It's been a while since a show hooked me from the very start.

You don't have to use NTFS. In fact, it's not recommended, but the biggest reason you'd want to is if you were dual-booting Windows and wanted to access the same files from both operating systems.

The new theme is nice and all but condense layout for arrays in the inspector is so beautiful. I have an old project that became unwieldy because of how much space the inspector was taking to edit anything.

This is good info, thanks! I'll add it to the fstab entry in a bit.

Edit: I've tested it for a bit and made sure the symlinks still work with non-Windows characters. Added it to the guide :)

Help you how...? If you want to make a game, learn game development.

and a bunch of “professional” apps.

It is in fact a bunch of pre-installed free software. I like Zorin, but Zorin Pro just seems like a way to trick businesses into paying for the distro. I guess having access to a support team is nice, but otherwise it's not worth it at all.

No idea what the other commenter is on about, I used Zorin ~2 years ago. It's a great distro for people new to Linux, and IMO has the cleanest aesthetic of any distro I've used. It was also super stable and reliable.

My issue with it (and ultimately the reason why I moved) is that it aims to be very stable which means its packages can get very outdated. I think the Nvidia drivers they used at the time I was on it were two years old. It's not something most people would notice especially with how much Flatpak is used nowadays, but you'll run into annoying cases where that thing you want to update isn't available in that package manager.

Even looking at the website, Zorin 18 is out but it seems people on Zorin 17 will have to wait a few weeks for a way to upgrade.

Fantastic, thanks! I might be spending more time on Lemmy after all.

At first I thought ehh, another Minecraft clone, but the more I watched the video the more this seems kinda awesome.

Procedurally crafted tools, no restrictions on build height, a massive view distance are all very cool. It has the same problem all Minecraft clones have though... It tries too hard to be Minecraft. The textures and UI are almost 1:1 that at first glance I could swear it's Minecraft. I hope it becomes its own thing as it gets developed more.

Good rule of thumb to have is that a company acquisition is always bad.

My guess: Nothing will change in the short-term but from the post it's clear they want Arduino chips to focus way more on business and way less on hobbyists and education - which is kinda what made Arduino so loved.

Man, that was an incredible video. As someone who occasionally dabbles in designing and creating programs, the rant about selection modes was eye-opening. It feels like I understand UX a lot better now.

That's kind of the big issue when starting out, finding like-minded people that are willing to work with you. Your best hope is to try again to find somebody that's at your level and wants to help with the game. If you have any local gamedev community, even if it's just your country, I'd highly recommend looking there as opposed to random people online because (in my experience) people tend to be more serious in smaller communities, especially if you can meet up IRL.

I don't think anybody really cares if you use AI for your free hobby projects. The problem is that AI is really bad at gamedev, so you'll suffer a fair bit with broken code and not knowing how to tie everything together in the game engine.

I want to be a game artist and learning to code seems like it would be a distraction from that. Is it wrong to think that way?

Not at all. Not everybody wants to be a solo indie dev that's trying to be good at everything, most people I know are either just a programmer or just an artist. Get good at what you do and try your best to find a teammate you can trust who's also serious about it.