[qwertyuiop924]

That's total and absolute nonsense.

Speaking as a linux user with a good bit of experience with sed, awk, and regex, DF is way worse.

[norea-armozel]

Yeah, I'm going to confirm that it was easier for me to install and run my first Linux distro (Slackware) back in '99 than it was to play Dwarf Fortress. Seriously, anyone who can get a fortress to last a year in-game amazes me.

[slackstation]

As someone who also first installed Debian in 98 from a single floppy disk netboot image, a memorized FTP site domain, a cable modem connection and a whole night of hoping, I wholeheartedly agree, Dwarf Fortress is way, way harder.

Every year I pick it up and play it for a bit just show myself that I can do it.

These days, I watch streams of people playing the game on Youtube or I play Rimworld if I'm in the mood for actually playing something myself.

I've never been able to have the patience to get to one of the really interesting kinds of fortresses that have steam-powered defenses that tunnel hordes of enemies strategically through your base only have them burned to death.

Also, the game is single threaded so there's a very linear limit of how many dwarves and interesting emergent things can happen in your fortress.

God, I miss playing that game. When it's good, it's the best there.

I've wanted to learn Rust for the express purpose of making a faster, multi-threaded DF-like game.