Livie

The other one looks very concerned about the whole deal

Hasn’t it already been done? https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

Only by my own hand, unfortunately

Firstly disclaimer, instance url. In my limited experience (on various flavours of Arch, including vanilla), most steam games I’ve tried have worked with minimal tweaking. FF XIV (running outside of steam) also runs with only minimal hickups (occasionally stays on a black screen and has to be restarted on my system).

I’ve had no issues so far from nvidia’s proprietary drivers, I’ve yet to try the open source alternative.

At the end of the day, how much of a hassle it is, depends entirely on the games you intend to play. For me, I ended up setting up a windows VM with GPU passthrough for the more stubborn games, though so far I’ve only needed it for one.

TL;DR: YMMV, but it’s far better than even a few years ago.

I’m very mildly shocked that “another fake download site exists and is being shown to people through ads” still makes the news. Feel like you should at least need to pass the bar of installing without several instances of user input before it’d be news-worthy.

Entirely separate laptop purely for those annoying sites it is, then. At least until the approval inevitably gets cracked and can be bypassed.

DEs are clearly bloat, so the best DE is no DE.

Definitely not just because I prefer i3

There’s no real harm in asking instead of just assuming you’re correct, surely? Besides, not everyone necessarily knows the ins and outs of common opinions in every hobby out there.

Don’t know the answer, but horny on main is a way of life

Gone, as it should be

Still a lurker tbh, aside from this comment

Arch and it’s variants, depending on when I feel like reinstalling again, currently testing the waters with EndeavourOS