Hot take: Go with Gentoo. Dive into the deep end, manually install your system from the command line. It doesn’t get more configurable. You’ll be forced t o learn a bunch of stuff tho. But it’s not that hard.

If you take this seriously, my advice would be to not go overboard with global USE flags, and keep your CFLAGS standard.

Or go for something like Arch. Maybe CachyOS (tho I hear this has a lot of optimisations that are described as “yolo”…)

AMD graphics work better than nvidia still, but things are getting better, so if you’re with team green you might have to replace that or you might have no real problems.

Most games just work. Even stuff with anti-cheat isn’t necessarily out (e.g. Helldivers 2, War Thunder and Star Citizen are games with anti-cheat that I play). Best to check protondb if in doubt.

I’m sure it could. Unless they change it up, they’re all gonna be on the same architecture, and modern consoles have what amounts to an OS.

Will it? I dunno, I doubt it somehow.

Arch (or Gentoo) will teach you linux. :)

IMO yes. I hate PvP, but so many games these days seem to be about trying to ease me into it. “Well what if only SOME of the enemies are players??” How about none? If the game would be fun like that, I wanna play it. If there’s enough people who agree with me to make it financially viable, devs should do it, IMO.

Maybe brics will bring us an alternative to visa/mastercard… :P

Yeah, I used to use -U but I prefer -N personally. I like the system to be consistent with what it would be from a fresh build.

sudo emerge -avuDN world

GitHub no longer has a single manager (I forget if the term was “CEO”), and is being folded in under MS’s AI team.

As a linux gamer, I agree…

I use it for some things. It’s good for file batch processing, for example. I could probably do those things in python but I use C# and powershell at work so I know .net better.

Stripe is currently unable to support sexually explicit content due to restrictions placed on them by their banking partners

How deep does this rabbit hole go? Will the banks eventually claim they’re fine with porn but are being restricted by the illuminati or something?

Sometimes I struggle with impostor syndrome. Reading this made me feel a lot more confident that I am actually really good at my job and not just fooling everyone into thinking I am.

I beg your pardon, what? None of those things are true of Australia.

I don’t like it either and they’re from my country. I also don’t like when America exports its bullshit either, mind you.

Hard to say without having used Arch. I just really like Portage. It does some really neat things.

It’s a shame, but unsurprising. Especially with everyone addicted to live service skinner boxes now and a certain someone insisting live services would cease to exist overnight if this went anywhere.

Perhaps they’re hoping to stop people from going to linux for gaming. PC gaming has certainly not hurt their stranglehold on the top OS spot.

Well I also stopped playing most AAA games a while ago, which is where you see console lead platform the most, so yeah I don’t have a newer example sorry. They may or may not exist, I wouldn’t know.

Ohh! Nice to know! Might try that with War Thunder tomorrow. No clue if that’s SDL or not.

It’s always preferable to have options, yeah. I so far haven’t found a need to use an xorg session, knock wood.