I’ve been thinking the same thing lately, and based on my recent Linux usage on my other machines, I would probably pick something Fedora based with KDE. I’ve been using Arch on my “work” laptop and it’s been really fine and fun, but also a LOT of work (especially when I break something myself). Having a ton of very up to date packages to install, plus the AUR and Flatpaks to shore up anything that might be missing makes for a very “compatible” system. And of course, the freedom and courage to set it up just exactly the way I want.

I used Linux Mint for several years, it’s the one I can say I’m most comfortable with. If I had to set up another low power laptop or a computer for a family member I’d either use that or MX Linux. They just don’t break. I have also tried Fedora for a short time, and it made me start liking KDE Plasma, and it was honestly the easiest one to set up for Steam out of the box. And it had more in variety and more up to date packages than Mint, and also easily augmentable with Flatpaks for what’s missing. OpenSUSE was similar, but the package manager was excruciatingly slow, and there were no good mirrors for fast downloads, dropped that very quickly.

Although, overall from your past experience in the post and other responses in the thread, I think you’ll do just fine with Kubuntu. You’re already plenty familiar with how to use it and how to set it up the way you need it to. I’ve been considering Nobara for my gaming PC as basically a better Fedora, but I’m afraid of projects with so few people taking care of them fizzling out in a couple years, and it’s not as simple as just replacing it with base Fedora if that happens. So yeah, my personal choices would be Arch, Mint or Fedora. But my case is not the same as yours.

Why is anyone susprised about this? This is the most predictable outcome.

Then again, you’d probably already have a jailbroken PS1 to play copied games, you could burn them yourself. Or emulate, it’s so easy to emulate PS1 nowadays. No need to spend money importing those copies from China.

Ahhh, true freedom!

Not on my Arch laptop, no. That one has an AMD Radeon card. My gaming PC has NVidia but I haven’t tried it there yet.

Yeah you are correct in assuming that NVidia drivers do not play well with Wayland. It’s on NVidia’s side to unfuck their drivers, which they haven’t in a while already. I think there’s open source drivers that work better for that? Think they’re called nouveau, look that up. Might even be related to your gaming problems.

Fencers, the heavy exoskeleton class of the EDF games, starts out as a civilian human forklift. Don’t let your memes be dreams.

FromSoftware, 100%. From the days of Armored Core to all the Souls games.

They’re very different racers. One is arcade racing, drifting fun perfected, the other is an incredibly fun racing career and car collecting simulator (still not an actual simulator, but physics at least resemble the real world)

I say play both GT2 and RR Type 4 and see which one you like better. Alongside Wip3out I’d say these are the absolute BEST racing games of the console.

Update: I checked last night and I already had the plasma-integration package installed this whole time. I’m stumped.

Incredible. I have never even heard of a Kirigami, and here I only thought I had to worry about if applications were Qt (which version) or GTK (also which version) and running under Xorg or Wayland. What the hell is a Kirigami. Well, thanks for the heads up. Such are the joys of being a Linux user!

Fuck. This is me with music production about a month ago. I produced exactly 5 seconds of music trying to learn it after several days of endlessly learning about it.

What about Grim Dawn?

They’ve been doing snaps for a few years already so it already seems like they’re keeping up with this bullshit (in fact they’re putting more and more stuff there) It’s already the reason people stopped recommending Ubuntu to new users and instead go for Mint or Pop!OS

It’s amazing that it’s still the best rally sim to this day. This game is old enough to drink in the States.

welp, guess I’m keeping this thread open for tomorrow morning when I get to fixing this. Hopefully by then things will be more fixed upstream…

Why am I not surprised.

Always online even in singleplayer is already a non-starter, but other than that (people literally not being able to play the game on release due to congested login servers) the driving is subpar, the city map looks nice but is empty like a ghost town, the driving is subpar, the soundtrack is terrible, the radio inserts sound AI generated, and progression seems bad too.

Oh, and apparently this was the best they could do after several delays of over a year. I hear the entire dev team went on strike against their publisher immediately after release too. And to think they also trashed their last WRC title for this, too. Just an absolute drawn out shitshow.

Literally Talos from the Night Lords. He’s my favorite war criminal and murderer. The books made him so likeable that the author had to make the character himself remind the others (and the reader) that he’s evil, lol.

And then when I say allbillionaires should be put into flaming woodchippers feet first I’m the one that’s out of line.

Thanks for taking that L for the industry again, Peter.