1. I’ve heard good things about CUPS for printing, not sure about the wd drive app & msi dragon center.
2. Not really, with exceptions:

• Appimages are a Linux equivalent of Windows’ EXE files. Everything the program requires to run is contained in a single file, which can be run anywhere.
• Statically linked applications, for example, a lot of software written in Rust & Go, also include everything needed to run, but in a different, more compact way.
• Not what you want or mean, but source-based distributions, like Gentoo do not distribute ready-to-run software*, but rather scripts/instructions for building for source in an automatic manner. This decouples the file you get from your distribution from the required library versions somewhat, in a way, increasing backwards compatibility a bit.

3. You can, although you should use the system’s package manager, if possible. You can just download an appimage or a statically linked executable and give it the executable permission (chmod +x <path-to-program>) and run the file.
4. First, beware that Wine is malware compatible! Wine — upon which Valve’s Proton is based — can be used to run Windows programs & games on Linux (and MacOS). Alternatively, you can use umu-launcher to launch non-steam programs with Proton. If you encounter problems with Wine, you could try looking into the Lutris launcher, winetricks & the winedb website.
5. You ask multiple things here: 5.1. Flag emojis: Yes, so long as you have fonts with them installed. (They probably are on Ubuntu) Flag emojis are interesting that they’re just 2 special characters, representing a country code. If you have a font that specifies a flag for a country with the code “FR”, you get support for the French flag emoji. There is also nothing stopping a font from including flag emojis for fictional or historical flags. 5.2 Codecs: Yup, HEVC (H.265) and others are supported at no cost. FFmpeg supports it, so you can transcode video on Linux. Just be aware of the quality loss from lossy->lossy conversion.
6. Yes, Wine works offline.
7. See points 2 & 3. Also, if you have a package file (.deb for Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu), you can use the package manager to install it. Well, so long as you have its dependencies either installed or as package files stored offline. You can also run a repository offline, but that’s probably not really useful to you. Be aware that you should assume package files to be distro-specific, unless otherwise specified. (A .deb file without dependencies could run on both Debian & Ubuntu. If I remember, EndeavourOS uses Arch’s repositories, so it should be compatible with Arch.)
8. Yes, Wine can run .bat files. Wine contains a terminal program (windecmd or winecommand I think), which works like a windows command prompt window.

_{*With exceptions}

If you have other questions or if anything remains unclear, ask away!

Hyprland, trying to go back to sway.

I would assume Indian rupee. Though Hyrule rupee could be interesting, as prices seem to vary wildly between games.

It’s our meme now, comrade!

Maybe I have to play trough the story again.

Don’t the greybeards still have quite a bit of dialogue? Also, both the player & Miraak are quite talkative, from what I rember, though it makes sense why the latter wouldn’t care much about collateral damage.

I think that Bethesda should just stop shipping main quests with their 1st party games. I think that there are even mods to disable them, which should be somewhat telling about players’ opinions.

Skyrim SE (the remake) is just about a decade old. Mods have progressed a lot if you want to give it a try.

I think that says a lot about how memorable he is.

A microkernel wouldn’t be that useful without a stable module interface, which won’t be coming anytime soon.

I think that I’ve only started the questline only a few times, and only for the empire, I think. I’m not even sure if I’ve finished it or ever met Ulfric.

Is the questline good? I fear that it’s too main questy, and Bethesda can’t write a good main quest to save their lives.

Isn’t Ulfric optional? I don’t think the civil war is required for the main quest.

It only becomes an image to me when outside of a code/preformatted block. Inside of one, it contains the raw markdown verbatim: <code class="hljs">!<span class="hljs-selector-attr">[alt]</span>(url)</code>.

I think that it’s the backend that screws the “url” up. Everything looks good in the preview, but the “url” part disappears upon publishing.

Looks like it’s using markdown-it, a Rust port of a JavaScript library with the same name.

It looks unmaintained. Last commit is from 2 years ago and issues look inactive. (including one asking asking about the maintenance status)

But it shouldn’t do that when enclosed in a code/preformatted block?

Nice alt text, very concise!

The syntax for images in markdown is .

Edit: Feels ridiculous to have to use a real image for this. Lemmy really seems to dislike image-like formatting in code blocks.

A hall of fame I kind of want to be in. Perhaps I should take up posting.

P.S. I noticed that your image is missing alt text. Something like “Long list of users who allegedly harass Rimu” would probably fit.

Which one?

I’m not sure what the correct terms are, so I’ll refer to in-app/in-client notifications as internal notifications and mobile-style out-of-app notifications as external notifications.

Based on what people usually refer to with the word “notification” in the context of social applications and messaging services, and your comment, I’m assuming you’re talking about external notifications. If you mean all notifications in general, I’ve misunderstood your point and can ignore the rest of this comment. I do think that internal notifications are useful.

I’m not saying that external notifications are useless, but rather that I don’t feel that they’re as important as you seem to make it out to be.

Also, even if your Lemmy client doesn’t support external notifications, Lemmy supports RSS, which you can subscribe to with a different application.

It should probably facilitate discussions then

Discussions do not have to be between only two people, others can continue where someone else left off.

People often need to continue conversations to clarify information & elaborate…

This is true, but it doesn’t require notifications outside of the client. For example, I noticed your reply as Lemmy’s web UI showed that I had an unread message.

I don’t mind continuing a discussion over multiple days, though I’m not sure if this applies to everyone.

Shades of Mastodon users justifying suicidal design choices that were later rolled back here.

Could you elaborate? I don’t use Mastodon, as I don’t see the value in “micro-blogging” and prefer to follow topics rather than people.

As for the rest of your comment, I too disagree with blocking VPNs & Tor to fix their CSAM problem, but I don’t see how that is relevant to this discussion? Though I do not mind if you want to discuss that instead.