I adored the details they gave the characters in that game. I accidentally

It also had such nice and natural-feeling LGBTQ characters.

Bazzite is phenomenal. Just know that it works a little differently than what I’d call “legacy” distros. So when googling things, just know that a lot of instructions for Linux won’t work for you.

If you run into trouble, hop on the discord and someone will help you.

I’ve been on Linux for 10 months or so, but I still have Windows installed on a separate disk. I guess if I needed the space I’d worry about deleting it, but I’m good for now. I have booted into Windows only a handful of times over those 10 months, and the stretches get longer and longer.

What is the “it” that you think got left behind?

You’re taking about bringing a man of control and order into that den of chaos and goblinry? I don’t think Alec would enjoy it.

Denuvo is the only reason I’m waiting. I’m on Linux, and I’m not risking that Proton change license issue. And also I hate the performance hit that Denuvo causes.

They are probably scanning for the binary file executable.

I’m in a similar boat. The difference for me is that I can definitely tell times where I’m faster. But there are still times where I fumble around. I know that eventually, I’ll be way faster using vim motions than I ever was without them.

When I first started actually trying to use it to do work, it felt pretty bad. But once I got over the hump it felt better.

I think I’m at the point where I’m at least as fast as I used to be, if not slightly faster.

I work in Java almost every day, and I’ve never once thought it looked like porn.xml

They’re just being a coffee snob. A coffee enjoyer knows that good coffee can be made in many different ways, as long as you have good beans and a decent grinder. French press can make excellent coffee, even if it’s not my preferred method.

Snobs just enjoy proving that they’re better.

And in this one, if you move the stick back and forth wrong, you can spin out.

It’s pretty janky, but you can get used to it.

I love NMS, and I think it’s a better game than Starfield overall. But they’re extremely different.

All of your criticisms are spot on. The only thing is disagree with is the story. I thought it was alright. Some of the side quests were great, but there weren’t a lot of those.

I really enjoyed the ship building, but it was extremely limited and unbalanced.

I will say the loading screens didn’t bother me, though.

I’ve always been a mid-range gamer. When I was younger, that’s just what I could afford. As I’ve grown older, I didn’t see the point of spending more for high end. Mid-range already feels too expensive. But luckily, the parts last for 5 years easily.

Dropping the Windows tax means being able to offer computers for cheaper prices, which is attractive to consumers. Several companies are offering Linux these days.

The ease of switching really just depends. Myself, I’ve had several stumbles switching, but I’m still so happy I did and I’m not going back. My wife on the other hand, has had no issues switching from her Chromebook, because she’s a super basic user who spends all her time in the browser.

When I was 5 or 6, my grandmother got a NES and three games. One was Crystalis.

Me and my two cousins played the game in turns, and we eventually got to the first boss, which was quite an achievement because there are puzzle elements to the game.

We could not beat this boss. Several years later, I have my own NES and I borrow Crystalis. I’m pretty sure I got to that boss again and realized something. Hitting him produced a sound that no other monster had. It sounded like hitting solid glass. I finally intuited that I wasn’t strong enough and leveled up to level 3, and wouldn’t you know it, I beat the boss.

It’s one of my all time favorite retro games. It was so ahead of its time. Worth playing if you’ve never tried it.

Linux is still not ready for mainstream consumers

Jorge Castro of Universal Blue likes to say that the average person doesn’t install operating systems, and I fully agree with him.

People rock what comes installed on their computer. Anyone who installs an OS them self is not an average user.

I think we’ll see the average user start to choose Linux as more and more manufacturers ditch the Windows tax and ship computers with Linux.

There’s a good deal of misinformation here. The main part being disk space. While it is true that flatpak apps will take up more space, it’s not nearly as bad as you think it is. There is a lot of really good optimization going on under the hood that you don’t see. Dependencies are de duplicated. I’m no expert on it, but I believe that dependencies also have delta changes from one version to the next.

Regarding apps not supporting building of the source, you should get over that or do the work of supporting it yourself. Open source is a hard, usually thankless job.

While the Switch 2 has better hardware, that’s only a tiny piece of the value proposition. The Deck is leagues better in value. I guarantee it will be able to play new release games for another 10 years. You can’t say that for the Switch 2. It won’t be able to play all of the new releases, sure, but thousands more than the Switch 2.

And that’s not to mention the tens of thousands of games the Deck can play now that the Switch 2 will never be able to play.

The truth is that hype and FOMO are powerful drugs that push gamers to constantly shell out their hard earned money to chase the newest things.

And, to an extent, I get it. There is something to be said about playing games when they come out and experiencing that moment with other gamers. There’s a sort of fraternal feeling about it.

But if you can step back from that and be patient, you can play all the games you have time for and not play into their trap.