whenever somebody brings up some terribly ancient Debian/buntu distro with outdated packages we end up having them use a .deb instead since the ppa is long gone and it's been fine. wild that they're often stuck on 4 year old packages though
the deck isn't some server that needs > 100% uptime for years. Debian is poopoo for bleeding edge game releases, especially any alpha/beta/early access stuff
invoking them is kind of a pain, my sole experience with it was meson/ninja using it but then that default was removed and I've never been able to put it back to satisfy my curiosity of how it's done
Sanderson has mentioned inspiration from final fantasy X so that tracks