(I didn’t even know how to tag this. . . . There isn’t a “Are they outta their effing minds?!!” tag.)
I know you like flight sims, and I know you like lightweight systems. . .
While experimenting with GoPiGo O/S, I’ve been spending a lot of time running updates, so I had the flamingly brilliant idea of cloning my own mirror - on my local network - with the idea of making updates faster.
Maybe not the smartest thing so far as I have been working on this since Sunday - while doing other things of course! - and it’s still cooking. And it has already filled up a large chunk of a 500 gb SSD.
I am trying re-starting the clone using a closer mirror than the UK - TrueNetwork here in Moscow - and we’ll see if it’s faster.
While watching it skip stuff it already had, I noticed FlightGear in the Raspbian repository!
Seriously, who are they kidding? Or, maybe it’s one of those “I can get [name of package] running on my old XT with an 8088 processor!” one-upmanship kind of things, just for the S’es and G’s.
I run FlightGear on a (relatively) large PC with oodles of RAM, a 7,000 rpm hard drive with a huge cache, a reasonably hot graphics card and a BEAST processor, and I still have to turn down the “goodies” and frame rate to keep from stuttering.
On a Pi? 
I guess I’ll have to put on my masochist hat, dig out a joystick, and try an installation.
Maybe if I want to qualify as a total sicko, I should slap it onto my Zero-W!
Sheesh!
