TLDR; Overall, great. Had some growing pains but Linux feels faster/snappier than windows.

I’m a developer and a self host “enthusiast”, so I was already a little familiar with Linux, but I ended up hopping from OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, to Kubuntu, to Arch Linux (using KDE Plasma).

I had issues with Tumbleweeds package manager, and overall it felt clunky. They have stricter security than other distros and it caused some weirdness with Dolphin and some other utilities/packages.

Kubuntu was fine but then I came across an article that Valve was going to be directly collaborating with Arch, so I said screw it and jumped to Arch.

I absolutely love Arch, but it definitely has a learning curve. I found a gentleman on youtube (OldTechBloke) that walked through installing it and has a Gitlab repo with all of the commands to install. I took that and used it as a starting point and modified it over the past ~8-9 months to suit my needs (I’ve installed it on two other laptops now as well)

The biggest issues I’ve had have been related to Nvidia, and oddly enough, my Gigabyte motherboard. I had to enable several kernel parameters so “sleep” would work correctly. Luckily the arch wiki is incredibly detailed.

For a regular user, I would recommend Kubuntu or Linux Mint.

Edit: Also, I dual booted for a while but I’m at a point now where I haven’t been on Windows since like… February. PUBG and Tarkov are the only things keeping Windows around on my PC.

Same. I got sick of Windows late last year and swapped to Linux in October/November.

I thought this had something to do with the 3D printing software called Octopi… Was really confused.

I used to only do something called “surfing” in the Counter-Strike: Source days.

There are dedicated servers that only run surf maps.

Mini PC/PC with a script to run gamescope -fe -- steam on boot is as close as you’ll get atm. That will run Steam in fullscreen embedded mode.

I have a PC all set up for it but there is a bug with 10xx series NVIDIA cards that causes the screen to go black when the cursor is hidden. Very upsetting. Need to throw an AMD card in there.

Mindustry

An open-source factorio like game. You can play it on PC or your phone, and it has a self hostable server that is relatively easy to setup.

Edit: I’m really glad to see this game is pretty well known!

Thank you for the invite and holy crap. That game is so much fun. Derailed all my plans for the night.

Would love an invite if you don’t mind!

Would love an invite if someone has one to send.

About 7 years ago… Friend and I built PC’s about 6 months apart, him first, then me. Same ASUS motherboard. 2 years go by and his motherboard just dies. Few months later, mine dies. They honored the Warranty but the RMA process was awful. Little to no communication and it took a month for each of us to get refurbished motherboards back. I have not used a single ASUS product since.

People were saying that might have been Valve just covering themselves from potential lawsuits. We’ll just have to see if it’s reverted.

Nope nevermind, I was hopeful it was good guy Steam but it was in fact Sony. Fuck Sony. Will never buy another Sony game.

The uniformed virtue signaling is strong with this one…

All of the “butchering” is optional. Believe me, the game makes it much easier to set up a berry patch that auto-feeds everything in your base, rather than manually butchering everything.

And… Normal Pokemon is enslaving as well. You’re literally catching them and forcing them to fight each other to the brink of death. Just to recycle the rhetoric of the crazies 20-25 years ago. It’s akin to dog fighting. You’re also a child in Pokemon…

Come on, at least try to make a good argument.

Man, I love Valve.

FWIW Jerboa looks the same as what Sync shows

And even with that… I gave it a shot for a while… But unfortunately, it is nowhere near as good as Google’s swipe/glide typing. I was constantly having to fix words or just not use the swipe typing at all.

I’m not disagreeing but it says people who already own it will be able to keep playing it.

100% this. AC PvP would be awful for a new player using the limited early game parts/weapons. Think MMO level 50 vs level 5.

Yes an argument can be made to still allow it so people can fight their friends early… but a lot of people would just go straight into it and just be turned off to it altogether.

I’m loving every second of it. Already on NG++. Feels great on PC with KB+M. I’m in heaven.

Fly above him, use missiles, land only when necessary to replenish energy.