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I haven't done much more than install, generate a few worlds, and start a couple embarks. I'm interested in the out of the box experience.  How hard is it to get going, find the help, make changes, etc.

There is no settings program on linux/mac currently but you can turn some features on/off manually by renaming files (like i did for illithids), copy folders(graphics packs), or doing find / replaces, comment/uncomment in the raws. Since most of the stuff is on by default you can just remove most of what you don't want.

I tried to make it as easy to figure out as possible. If I failed please let me know.

Disclaimer: I'm a systems admin, so i'm not terrible.

I didn't find the Linux version particularly easy to use. There's very little in the way of documentation on how/where to turn the various options off, and what documentation there is - you have to go digging for. I thoroughly understand it's difficult to maintain a Linux version, that works across versions, that's easy to make work.

Proposal: An "ini file" which has configuration sections with FEATURE=TRUE/FALSE ( or 0/1 depending on what you like ), and a "reconfigure" script which parses what the state should be. Write it for /bin/sh and you should have cross-platform compatibility ( and in the absence of a GUI to do it all that's cross-platform, it would likely be not terrible to use for the Mac version either. )