You and me both with League; the day they forced Kernel level Anti-Cheat was the day I killed my dualboot setup. I can't get into Dota, so it's the end of an era for me, but I'll survive it. LoL was getting worse and worse anyway... quietly sobs

It was made a little bit easier for me since I was maining Linux on all my other machines already anyway, but I feel your pain. I never ranked either, but usually played with international friends (horrible, horrible ping). I still keep up with them, but for the most part, they were the kind of friendships that were relying heavily on LoL. Honestly though, I've been happier since I quit. Now my gaming PC is 100% Linux, and I don't feel guilty everytime I sit down for a game.

Hmm — maybe that's why the barista always ignores my order and little children scream when I walk by...

Idk, I turned down my heating to 15° (C) last winter, and was fine. And I live farther north than France, in a first-floor apartment, with pretty shitty insulation (it's a pre-WWII building). I have great rent though.

Damn, that just goes to show how indoctrinated I am. Didn't even occur to me that there's two mainstream OSs outside of Linux out there.

Third option? Solus? Minix? What is the third option!!???! Why don't I know about the mysterious third option?!!!?

In regard to question one: it depends. Pretty much everything without a shitty, Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat (my autocorrect corrected to antichrist — for good reason!) will run either by default on steam or with something known as Proton. But you still may run into occasional difficulties.

For example, if you play Counter Strike 2: up until January this year, playing on Linux meant ≈20% less performance (CS2 is unoptimized for Linux and Vulkan unfortunately); this number has changed since the last few updates and since the new Nvidia driver, so I need to re-run the benchmarks. Your going to occasionally experience things like that, where performance isn't on par. In the case of CS2, the devs love Linux, so they will optimize for it in the future. It's just going to take a while.

Another example: I had to use Proton on a game that supposedly was native to Linux. Native implementations may sometimes suck; the good news though, is that you can easily use Proton, both inside and outside of steam. Seriously, I freaking love Valve for Proton, it's a fantastic tool.

This is all to say, that while gaming is absolutely possible nowadays, you will occasionally need add some flag, or familiarize yourself with proton, etc.

The exception, of course, being Kernel antichrists. Goddamn them. I can't play LoL anymore because of it. Well, I hate Riot so much now anyway, I'm not sure I'd want to anymore.

Lubuntu — what a horrible experience (back then)! Now I'm happy with openSUSE Tumbleweed, Void Linux, and Nobara (for my wanna-be gaming PC, lol; trying to get just enough frames for CS2). Every once-and-a-while (I feel like hyphenating that), I do a fresh install, just to get rid of the cruft. Nowadays that makes me wonder if I should be switching to immutable...

Emotio

Bad history, but it's like my second favorite genre man... and most (uhhh) of the new ones are fine 😬

I'm oddly happy that, despite what some might call extravagant ideas, you stand by LGBTQ. Goes against the stereotype, and I can only support that. As a side note: the only "extravagant idea" (who am I to say; you can't disprove a negative — in other words, I mean no disrespect) I've ever gotten interested in was Philip K. Dick. You may find his VALIS series interesting; it's the most persuasive argument for omniscient non-human intelligence I've come across, and quite well written at that.

Nice setup! Couple questions:

• How do you like river vs Sway (if you've used it)? Which layout generator do you use for River?
• You use foot and neovim; I've tried using neovim inside of foot, but because of some odd term incompatibility, shift becomes unregistered in neovim by foot (this is a known issue). Did you face this, and if so, how did you solve it?

Thanks! Again, this looks super cool!

This is a much, much better article. I'm surprised at the NYPost's shoddy quality (though I don't know much about them); the headline especially feels misleading. Thanks for sharing a better source.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, because it has been the most stable and flexible experience I've had that worked out of the box. I have tried a lot of distros over the years, and openSUSE has really held up.

Additionally, I use Nobara for a multi-purpose machine that I also occasionally use for gaming (that's why Nobara instead of openSUSE: it gets me slightly higher %1 lows and is less effort to set up for gaming) and a Void Linux machine for programming. Nobara is pretty good, by far the best gaming oriented distro I've tried, but I do regret that it's Fedora based. Void is really fantastic, but for some reason it only boots on my System76 laptop, so that's the only device I use it on 🤷.

Void is an arch-killer for me; it's faster, has huge repos, and offers a similar experience. I honestly prefer it, and would probably use it on most of my machines if it weren't for the booting issue (it's been a few months since I last tried, so things might have changed though). OpenSUSE is king for low-effort stability and flexibility though.

Well, those are my two cents. Good day y'all!

+1 it was a tun of fun for me and rust is great

I love Nobara, but it regularly breaks between updates (though everything is usually fixed within 3 hours).

$120, Wireless Varmilo. Superb keyboard, except that the super key is waaaay too difficult to reach.

+1 for Quod Libet

I used Fedora, and am now leaving for the exact reason you're leaving Arch (plus IMO bad repos). Switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed a few months ago and am having a much better experience than with Fedora :D; I use the PC for programming, audio recording and mixing, document stuff, etc. (No gaming though).

Nobara is good but does break regularly, FYI... If you're a "power-user" I wouldn't recommend it as a daily driver.

There's also Void Linux, which hasn't ever broken on me due to an update, but is still a lot of work, due to its nature. It's actually quite stable though, and you might enjoy it, since it's quite similar to Arch and has very large repos.

I can't say much about immutable distros, as the only one I've used is bazzite, which was kinda horrible (broke constantly).

Well, I hope that helped. Good luck!

The power cable of my nightmares... Everytime I feel like they want you to brake it, just so you need to buy a new one

In Germany there are Dub Techno concerts, which are kinda like this. But they're usually late at night/early in the morning (more often the latter) and people are usually high on drugs. The music is great though! Check out Basic Channel