Lakehopper

The color customization on the plane feel fun, and it allows me to make my plane feel more personalized.

Using a controller or joystick helps a lot, the aircraft flight model doesn't have training wheels per se so it's a bit difficult to control with just keyboard.

The graphics are good enough, but due to the water being almost flat calm, it can be quite difficult to judge how high you are when landing - it seems miles away, and comes up all of a sudden, leaving you very little time to pull up and land smoothly.

I started out with the default full assembly start and despite not being too confident in my mechanical ability I assembled all the components without much difficulty (the in-game guide gives pretty easy to follow instructions and parts snap to the correct locations).

Game runs very well out of the box on linux !