I’ve been daily driving Linux for a few years. I’ve had exactly one (1) game that wouldn’t run because of anti-cheat, and dozens that run great. And the Steam deck gaining popularity is only making things better and easier.

Chromebooks are the answer to the question: “What’s the point of an operating system if I do everything through my web browser anyway? Why not make a computer that just opens a browser?”

Your choice of distro is probably less important than your choice of DE. Chromebooks vary quite a bit in their specs–many are low-end hardware, but some are quite impressive. With decent hardware, I’d recommend Mint with Cinnamon DE as a good starter. For lower specs, you could try Debian with XFCE.

The new favorite language of AAA game studios: Phyton Python

I’ve never tried it, but I think it’s when you invest and your funds are doing well, but you never actually cash out.

As far as I can tell, yes. I signed up for the free tier before paying for the service, and the worst I ever got was a banner here or there advertising their paid service. Proton encrypts all your data with your password, so they literally can’t access it even if they wanted to. The only info they have on you are things like when you logged in and your IP address (and I believe they’ve turned that info over to law enforcement when required, like any legitimate company would have to do), but their servers are in Switzerland where there are better privacy laws.

I’ve been using Proton Mail for a while, it’s been good for me.

My namesake doesn’t last terribly long…

Regular height, but it was on the ISS.

The reviews on this are worth reading. You might get some interesting recommendations after reading them, though.

Good to know! I was considering switching back to Debian or Mint, maybe LMDE. I’ll look further into it. Thanks for the tip!

Manjaro for my laptop, Mint for my HTPC, and Debian for my servers.

Root

I hope someday to have as much self confidence as someone who lists a “slightly shat” chair for $75.

Oh, there’s a storm alright

Fucking legend

Obligatory: fuck Nestle

Weed-brained

Yeah, I’ve had some issues with Nemo as well. I ended up installing Thunar and have had a much better experience with it. And you can set it to be your default file manager if you like it.

Getting games to work can be a little tricky, depending on the game. Be sure to check out protondb for comments that others have. Sometimes it’s just a matter of changing the version of proton. Not sure about the other usability issues you’re describing.

Do you have an Nvidia graphics card? If you do, and if you haven’t already, you’ll probably want to use the proprietary driver instead of the open source one (which is selected by default). That might even help some of the Steam issues.

Linux users be like

It’s not a matter of freedom, it’s a question of desired functionality. If anything, keeping your data in a sandboxed area by default respects your freedom more (that is, freedom from other apps scraping your data).

If it’s on Github, you could file a feature request to have that default behavior changed.