Oh.

Perhaps I am confused, though you did say:

I would not be surprised if running Photoshop on Linux with wine was a viable option these days. Or will be in a not-too-distant future.

Thats basically what I was trying to respond to initially.

I'm use lemmy on mobile, and sometimes the sort of thread branches become a confusing rainbow of ... wait who am I talking to?

But anyway yeah, I used to be able to dual boot linux and windows fairly easily, but then, MSFT decided that their idea of Secure Boot involves rewriting your GRUB or whatever, and breaking your bootloader / boot sector.

And it would do this via Windows updates.

So thats a rootkit, as far as I'm concerned, fuck em, get off my PC.

IRT local LLMs, that aren't spyware, that are containerized, that don't burn down an acre of forest for every 15 minutes their datacenter runs?

Alpaca. Its a flatpak, makes setting up a local LLM about as easy at it could possibly be.

IRT to Kenshi...

Seek not the "wisdom" of Okran, for he is a false god, a cruel god, his "Holy Nation" is an abominable pox, a viscious hypocrisy manifest in blood stained sand and broken souls.

Instead, seek the meek, foster them, and your rewards shall be numerous and unexpected.

... ahem ...

Uh yeah Kenshi has as almost much lore and worldbuilding as something like a Bethesda game, but it does have a very unorthodox sort of control scheme.

Its... kind of like playing on old school, SWG/MxO era MMO, but its... singleplayer, and ... basically a simulation of a world, more so than a 'game' with a coherent main plot.

You just have to go find the plotlines, the people with backstories, the factions with conflicts.

You can be a fighter, a thief, a caravaneer, you can build a town, you can raise an army, and lead them all into battle.

Its unorthodox, if you need a game to handhold you and direct you, you probably won't like Kenshi.

But if you want a confusing and brutal world that is entirely capable of existing and functioning without you... you might like it.