arch seems the coolest, with Wayland, kde, hyperland customization

While I have no experience with Unreal Engine, so I can’t give an informed recommendation, I just figured I’d point out that you can do this with every distro

“and the word ‘dog’ with the word ‘son’.”

I don’t know whether it’s me or my hardware, but display managers seem to absolutely hate me. I’ve tried quite a few, and I’ve always encountered some sort of issue within a few days. Even on distros that install and set them up automatically for me.

Since I’m the only user of my computers, I’ve set mine up to log me in and startx (well, now the Wayland equivalent) automatically, bypassing DMs altogether. If I decide to experiment with other window managers/desktop environments, I just change the line in my bashrc.

I’ve used Linux on my PC for about 7 years, now, and I’ve only found two or three games I had to go back to Windows for (though I don’t play very many multiplayer titles, so YMMV). For whatever reason, though, I can almost never get the Steam Deck controls to work with my GOG games. GOG really need to step up - there’s a MacOS version of GOG Galaxy, after all.

I think it’s a pretty apt analogy. A game boy cartridge is repairable if you know what you’re doing and have the replacement parts. Not to mention that older bikes aren’t necessarily going to be able to use more modern parts.

Maybe it depends what games you want to play. Fallout NV is the only GOG game I’ve got working with no hitches through Heroic. Every other GOG game I’ve tried to get running either doesn’t run at all, or the controls don’t work.

One issue is that, unless you (can) back them up yourself, digital goods can be changed. If I bought The Twits on Kindle, it literally wouldn’t be the same book that I read as a child because they decided that words like “ugly” are too much for children. Even if I bought it before they censored it - it would be “updated”.

This argument applies to almost anything that’s possible to own, though. What happens when your bike degrades to the point that it’s not usable as a bike anymore?

I agree. While Family Sharing may be an option, it really shouldn’t be necessary. Why shouldn’t “I” (whether it’s my dad playing Cities: Skylines, or actually me playing a round of Balatro on the Deck while waiting for a DotA queue to pop) be able to play two different games that I paid for at the same time without having to jump through any hoops? Before I knew about Family Sharing, I accidentally kicked my dad off Cities: Skylines far too many times simply by waking up my Deck.

Funnily enough, now Family Sharing largely isn’t necessary because I started buying a bunch of my games on GOG which means I rarely use my Steam Deck because of how difficult most GOG games are to get running.

I’ve tried some weird and wonderful partition schemes in the past, but I think I’ve settled down and just go for simplicity. Half a gig for /boot, and the rest for / (in ext4). I’ve tried btrfs, but I’ve never been in the position where I needed snapshots, and ext4 is a lot more simple.

I also like having the flexibility of not having a separate home partition. I back up my super important files, so it doesn’t matter if I lose home (not that I distrohop much anymore, anyway). And I don’t have to stress about whether I’ve made my root partition big enough. For the same reason I use a swapfile rather than a swap partition (though I do need to look in to zram and zswap) - I like knowing that I can resize it easily, even if I don’t really plan on doing so.

Any reasonably modern, well maintained desktop distro should be fine; whether they’re “for gaming” or not shouldn’t matter. I’ve successfully run WoW on both Debian Stable and Arch.

I’ve had similar thoughts, too, but as I get older, being extremely fat just isn’t something I can continue doing. Having back pain and requiring a nap every day after work just ruined my quality of life too much, and I’m only in my early 30s.

Do you morons think that cyclists are just that suicidal or something?

and its not linux or mac

Except there’s already a Mac version of GOG Galaxy.

This clearly isn’t true though, otherwise there wouldn’t be so much FOSS software.

I like what GOG do, but gating features, even niche ones, behind a subscription sounds like the first step towards enshittification.

Also, I’m sure as hell not giving them extra money until they fix their platform on Linux/Steam Deck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages

Buy never software

Okay… I hate taxes too, but how else do you propose we pay for things like roads?

Poes Law very much applies, but I’m pretty sure Conservapedia is a troll. Just look at their list of “Greatest Conservative Songs”.

Either “I hate poor people but I love weed” or “I’m lying because my actual views would scare people off”.