The original cities skylines had atrocious performance after a certain city size as well, especially on hardware available at launch. Hopefully they can deliver on better performance over the next few months, I expect it to improve before they do their console release.

It is also ergonomically horrible, to the point where I prefer to use the magic track pad over the mouse.

This is exactly my experience as well. It doesn’t help that my peripherals are purchased based on if they work with windows so half the functionality is missing on linux, and I’m not about to go buy new ones.

That and fixing any issue can be such a frustrating experience because when you search you end up with fixes for every distro except yours, or the fix for your distro that worked 5 years ago but now doesn’t.

My current forray into linux is going well except for taking all day to configure the dual boot though, so maybe some things have gotten better!

1. Commute as part of working hours.
2. Reliable public transit, with the monthly pass paid by work.
3. Salary increase of at least 15%.

I feel all of these are relatively realistic and achievable by my workplace except for reliable public transit which is out of their hands. Thankfully they’re still remote first though there have been a few indications that this might change.

OK, travelling as a group that large completely changes things! I’ve never travelled as a group that big and to be honest I doubt I even know that many people total!

I honestly don’t think travelling as such a large group is a good idea. Most guides recommend groups of less than 6, which even splitting up you will be well over. The reason for this is you will run into issues with everything. For example if you want to take the train you will practically fill up an entire train car. Most restaurants will not be able to seat you, and those that can will require a reservation. The best restaurants are very often the small hole in the wall ones that seat 10 people and half are taken by regulars!

As far as accommodation goes you probably want to stick to hotels for the simple reason that you would have to book multiple Airbnbs anyway so at least with hotels you can have all the rooms together rather than everyone spread out all over the city.

I’m sorry if I’m sounding negative here but honestly travel in such a group sounds like a nightmare!

No, Suica can be used for all trains in Tokyo. It can also be used in various other cities across Japan as well but that is beside the point.

Different types of card exist (pasmo, Suica, etc) but they’re all fundamentally the same and can be used interchangeably.

I would disagree on the Airbnb point, and in fact reverse it. Book a hotel instead of an Airbnb if possible.