I have gone down the same rabbit hole lately. I’ve been playing Polished Crystal and am planning to play Modern Emerald next.

Polished Crystal adds a ton of features and I love it. They added many Pokémon that you can all catch, it adds a lot of new moves and introduces the modern types and physical/special split which I prefer. It also seems like a lot more difficult than vanilla gen 2 with revised gym leader parties. I’d suggest playing the 9bit version which has almost a decade of new features added to the 2.2.0 version you usually find.

Running an older kernel isn’t an option? Otherwise compiling your own kernel with the drivers should be possible I assume.

It is, but with kernel-specific packages you have the kernel linux(-lts) and the kernel module zfs-linux(-lts) and they aren’t in sync. Even with the LTS kernel I run into the issue that I can’t update the kernel since there’s a dependency issue between ZFS and Linux.

I have both LTS and zen and I’m currently on 6.6.36 and 6.9.7 respectively.

I am using ZFS on root on Arch using 2x 2TB SSDs striped . I mainly did it because my server runs on ZFS as well and thought snapshotting and backup would be easy, but instead went with Borg backup anyway.

Installation wasn’t very difficult, but the ZFS kernel modules can’t keep up with kernel updates (even with LTS kernel) on Arch, so I constantly need to do partial upgrades and it’s been annoying. As much as I love ZFS I’m not sure I’d do it again on Arch. If your distro is not using bleeding edge kernels then I don’t foresee any issues really.

Except push to talk doesn’t work in Vesktop/Vencord sadly.

You didn’t mention KDE’s lack of any adequate stability. That’s what makes it incomparable to Gnome.

But then also:

However it’s important to keep in mind that experience can vary among users.

Oh the irony.

This is genius

Finally a good solution to my white sd-card. It looks so bad in my black Steam Deck.

If you feel like you need/want software from AUR you should check out Distrobox. It can run any distro on top of your installation using Docker under the hood, but it tightly integrates into your system so with little effort you can run AUR programs from your launcher as if they were natively installed on your Mint.

Alternatively: cheap second hand RAM.

Yes, but for how long?

There’s a separate quota for email storage and cloud storage.

I have started using Mailbox.org since about a year with several custom domains. Its around 3 €/$ per month for the basic tier which also includes some cloud storage and an online office suite (of which neither I use). I’ve been happy with it.

Remember that prices in the US are before taxes (VAT) since they differ for each state and are calculated during checkout. I think I’d prefer to move -> buy than to buy -> move.

Oh nice, I’ll have to go check that out. Thank you Nintendo for making me aware of this!

I thought they were introducing Easy Anti-Cheat to BFV and BF1 like they have used on BF 2042. EAC can run on Linux if setup properly but EA doesn’t care.

And so does EA who hasn’t done it either and keeps adding the anti cheat to older Battlefield titles. Fuck AAA publishers.

You can find most if not all episodes on YouTube as well. I don’t think there are any high quality versions around anyway.

Didn’t we reach a point where EULAs are non-enforcable? Or is that just in the EU? But regardless, Valve can just ban you and good luck doing anything about it.

Agreed, this has been my experience as well. I tried switching to full time Linux multiple times. I had already used it on my laptop for years but on my desktop I kept going back to Windows because things on Windows just worked the way I wanted and thought that for some things there weren’t any Linux alternatives.

That was until two years ago I challenged myself to only use Linux for a month. I’ve been using Linux on my desktop ever since and only use Windows now and then to play a single game that doesn’t work on Linux due to anti cheat.