Still haven’t gotten around to finish that e-ink-thingie from the last post.

Played around with Linux Ubuntu in the last few weeks. I’m considering getting the son an old machine for his 10th birthday. It would be pretty locked down, no online-connectivity in the beginning. And with Linux on it, because why not.

I went with VMWare first, and while it ran Ubuntu ARM fine, there were lots of small issues I needed to fix (sound was buggy etc.). Also 3D in general just didn’t work very well. Then I tried it in Parallels, and the difference is huge! 3D is still not great but at least WebGL works in browsers, any my favorite ThreeJS-Example Littlest Tokio is running smoothly, compared to VMWare.

Also learning a bit QT, which I haven’t checked out so far. QtQuick seems to be the nice and modern way to go, while QtWidgets is the older, more mature, more accessible, but harder and more complex variant. If I don’t get frustrated along the way, I might try to do a Desktop-version of Corridors, which is a clone of Dungeons&Diagrams.

IDK why but I love simple games that look like desktop-apps. Games like Yoda-Stories, Solitaire, Minesweeper, Julietta-Pinball-Factory…