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#Morrowind has been one of my favorite games since it came out 22 years ago.
I lost half of my most recent, and at that point most advanced playthrough when I reinstalled my OS, but now I caught back up to everything and did a few extra things along the way.
This is all of the map that I have ever been to. Everything else about this game is still completely new to me. 
I successfully managed to save and import all my #Morrowind save files this time, but I really need to take screenshots of my mod Content Files and Data Directories in #OpenMW.
Every time the whole song and dance trying to figure out how to set up Aesthesia Ground Cover and Glow in the Dahrk.
At least I got Enhanced Textures working first try this time...
Yes, tutorials can be done very badly and be really obnoxious.
But I only learned today that you can use soul gems in #Morrowind to recharge your magic items.
In fairness, I do remember that back in the day, the original release came with a pretty beefy handbook. But ain't nobody got time to read through that whole thing when you can just walk out into the world and hit things with sticks to complete the whole game.
@yora I always suggest having home on a separate drive, or at least separate partition, because while MOST installers won't overwrite it some distros do blow away and re-partition. maintaining home means you carry all your data/saves/settings/etc basically until the drive physically dies, no matter how many OS re-installs
you can also go full unhinged mode like I do have have a massive raid5 media and games "drive", cheap hard drives ftw.
@raptor85 I used to have that on all my previous computer for 20 years. 
Wouldn't have helped me here, though, as on Linux, almost all games store their game files on the OS partition, not the partition where the game is located.
@yora that should be INCREDIBLY rare these days, and should never happen on anything installed via repo. (OS partition shouldn't even be writable to a normal user) On linux games (and all apps) store data in ~/.local and settings in ~/.config, if under steam, everything is under ~/.local/share, so it's all under the home partition
OpenMW saves under ~/.local/share/openmw/saves
@raptor85 And .local is on the OS partition.
@yora oh! I get the confusion now. What I'm saying is to have /home on it's own drive/partition, it's easy to do on linux and pretty common to split user data to a different drive than OS/System. Most distros you can set this up during initial partitioning but it's really easy to do after the fact as well, just make a new partition, rsync your entire /home directory (the parent, not the user one) to it, then edit /etc/fstab to give that partition a mountpoint of /home
@raptor85 Since I'll be installing a new OS on my computers next week, I'll look out for that during installation.
(So much easier to figure out when you have a working computer at the same time as the one that's in the installation process.)
@yora depending on distro most distros it's an option on install. your setup will definitely be different than the one I posted (the /dev/mapper stuff is for dm-crypt, I run full drive encryption w/ hardware system key to unlock it) I also use the old style out of habit, I really should be using, and you will normally use partiition UUID's instead of the paths as the paths CAN change if you modify the system efi.
@yora and also just fyi it's super simple to do the swap to home on it's own partition while running, can even do it from an X/wayland session, you just duplicate everything to your new drive, rename the old home, create a new /home folder, then just run mount /dev/drivename /home. (it's not like windows where file locks keep you from working on a live system), then just edit your /etc/fstab and bam, all good. Easy way to install an extra drive and just keep using the old one for os only.
@raptor85 Yeah, Manjaro lets me do it as easily as any other partition during installation.
@yora I've had the same home partition for around 15 years now, though I do have a second partition I use to compress backups to keep it from being too cluttered, and I did just rsync it to a new drive last year to swap to newer hardware, but I'm actually able to open games I haven't played for a decade and still have my savegames :D, I even still have all my UT2k4 stuff from back when I ran servers in like 2006, lol
@yora hmm I now feel like playing it again, but my new PC doesn't have a cd-rom drive.
