Skyrim has some mods that go really deep on magic and combat strats.

We’re social creatures. The laugh track makes us feel like we’re in a social situation. I think different shows use this more or less cynically.

The free version had a Linux build for a long time. The paid version adds new graphics, and it took a while for that to get a Linux release.

Off the top of my head: Half Life 2! OpenTTD, Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft.

If it’s really maxing out, then nothing is going to make it feel faster. If I had to guess, Windows caps things somehow so they don’t fully max out.

Tangential fun fact:

Snake oil is a real thing, that actually helps with the some very specific problems. But it has to be made a specific way from a specific snake. We associate the term with scams because of the large number of scammers that advertised fake snake oils, or advertised it being useful for tons if things it wasn’t.

My point is, many of the most effective scams rely on something that has a kernel of truth.

I don’t have any answers for you but do you have any non cooking management sim recommendations?

I use mailbox.org personally. Disroot is probably fine.

If you’re worried about hacking, you can do some things to mitigate the damage that would cause. Download important old emails and delete them from the server, this is pretty easy to do in a desktop client (like thunderbird or outlook) where you’d just move them to a local folder. That way if someone gains access, or they sell to someone that processes the data, they won’t have the old emails (unless they for some reason retained a separate copy, which seems doubtful).

A craftsmen wouldn’t be damaging it, they’d be modifying it to make it more useful to you.

You’d like that, wouldn’t you?