HouseWolf

I'm still a relative newcomer and switched fully in 2023 after having zero experience with Linux before that year.

I feel like I've only just gotten comfy with regular Linux and don't feel like reworking my setup around the quirks of an atomic distro.

And if you count the Steamdecks "SteamOS" then the only time I've remembered it isn't standard Arch is when it's "atomicness" is forcing me to do workarounds for something that I can easily do on my Arch based desktop.

But I'd give NixOS a try if their docs page didn't block my VPN when literally no other FOSS or Corpo site does...

Honestly might be the other way around for me. I was mainly a multiplayer guy for the longest time but most franchises I was invested in quickly went down the drain and a lot of the newer battle-royal style shooters didn't appeal to me.

Started mainly playing older games that had been on my backlog for a while. And videos of the Steamdeck running them games started popping up.

So since I already hated Windows 10 from the start and I didn't need my PC to run the latest AAA multiplayer games anymore, seemed like a better time than ever to switch.

I still play some multiplayer with Battlefield 4 and Battlebit Remastered. (R.I.P Battlefield 1 and Ironsight on Linux though...)

EndeavourOS because someone said it was Arch for lazy people, and I'm a lazy people.

I did use vanilla Arch before for a while, but just ended up being more work for the same setup with more issues from stuff like missing dependencies I didn't have to worry about with Endeavour.

Only other distro I've used was Pop!_OS when I first tried out Linux.

Just without the ridiculous tie.

The Simpsons.

There's something new to see every time! I've only just got back into watching the early seasons again recently.

Heavily depends on the game and how the patches are installed.

If the patch comes as an exe, on Lutris next to the Play button you'll find a wine glass icon with a menu next to it, you can use 'Run EXE inside Wine prefix' to run the patch installer and I've had it work most of the time. Sometimes you'll need a .NET dependency which you can install through Winetricks using the same menu.

A lot of patches for older games require DLL files which you have to manually declare in Wine, One again in that Wine glass menu you'll fine 'Wine Configuration' and in the Libraries tab of that, you declare what DLLs you need to "override".

I don't play either of those games you mentioned but I mainly play and mod older games these days and had pretty good luck running 95% of them through Lutris. You just sometimes have to find workarounds.

Think most people just use ROM as a catch all for "console video game format" these days.

As a Librewolf user I wouldn't make it default for casual users this kind of distro is aiming for. Sure enabling logins to use it as a main browser is piss easy, but that's still more work than the average person wants to put into setting up their system.

Waterfox would be the better choice since it's just default Firefox in every way besides Mozilla's spyware.

Gives me more Windows 8 flashbacks than Mac.

An interface that works well on touchscreens, but feels clunky on mouse and keyboard and the general theming of it looks more phone like than a desktop PC. Gnome itself being harder to theme doesn't help with that.

That being said I'd pick Gnome over all else for touch devices. I threw it on an old Surface 3 and it worked better than the original Win8 interface.

I've been using DDG since 2016 and never felt it was worse in terms of "search quality" than Google.

Especially nowadays I hear friends whine near weekly about Google, but it's still somehow "better than DDG".

Honestly people just make excuses not to change what they're use to. Even if what they're used to has changed around them for the worse.

My only real complain I have is I wish 'search by date range' was less finicky use and also worked in the image tab like it does in Google images.

It's not really an issue for the end user. But it's basically made for companies to take advantage of free hobbyist developers without needing to give anything back in return.

So if you're the kind of person who runs to foss software to get away from corporate tech bull, having a license that benefits companies more than users just kinda feels scummy.

I was surprised how many co-workers my age and younger (GenZ) don't even own a laptop let alone a desktop.

I know it was becoming more niche, but didn't expect it to happen that fast...