qBittorrent! You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.

Was using Deluge before on Windows and for a while when I switched to Linux but started having issues with it.

I still got a torrent from 2005 seeding, with 2 other people.

There’s been a lot of work on different recompilation tools lately. XenomRecomp and N64Recomp being two big ones.

Obviously it still takes a lot of work to go from a re-compiled console rom to a fully working PC port. But some fans are just crazy dedicated like that.

I was surprised how many co-workers my age and younger (GenZ) don’t even own a laptop let alone a desktop.

I know it was becoming more niche, but didn’t expect it to happen that fast…

As much of a Linux fanboy as I am, I just kinda hate platform exclusives in general when it comes to gaming.

Something fun could be Steam items you can only gain through playing the game on Linux, Like the promotional in-game items you got for playing TF2 on the launch of the Mac and Linux versions.

A VPN is a must have for browsing the internet in the UK these days, our laws and only getting more Orwellian by the day.

By all means do what you must to avoid handing over data to our police-state government.

Leave a text file along with your music including a donation link and thanking people for listening.

I’ve heard more than a handful of artists getting some money that way after putting their own albums up on torrent/file-share sites.

As someone who started using Linux while on Nvidia and stuck with it for over a year before going full AMD.

Just go AMD, so many little things I had to find workarounds for just because of Nvidias shitty drivers.

Even after Nvidia claimed to support wayland I could never get it to run on my install, then having to manually configure my xorg just to get my 170hz monitor working which then introduced graphical issues I just couldn’t fix…NONE of that was an issue the moment I swapped to a RX 7800 XT, didn’t even have to install any drivers they’re just standard in the kernal.

This one ^

The physical comedy alone is gold, Also you won’t leave their parents dealing with the nightmares like some of these movies…unless they really fear someone breaking in to piss on their rug.

I mainly use my Deck for racing games and actually played a lot of MC3 using PCSX2.

Pretty much every PS2 era racing game can be emulated flawlessly nowadays.

A lot of them also got PC ports but getting them and running them takes some manual tinkering. But for the older Need for Speed games the PC version is the best way to go with all the community made fixes and mods.

I’ve also recently played through the PSP version of Midnight Club LA and it was pretty great, felt closer to MC3 than the main HD console version.

Seagate has been very hit n miss with me. I’ve had one of their drives last near a decade only for a newer model of the same drive to fail within 6 months.

What’s generally considered more reliable brands for around the same price? preferably ones easy to grab in the UK.

I’m older GenZ “Zillennial”?

What in particular makes you think there’s not many of us on here? Not like Lemmy makes you state your age on your account.

I don’t use Battle.net but I had a similar issue when using EA Desktop through Lutris. The program would demand a restart to apply updates then would just shutdown and say the same thing next time you ran it, if it even still ran.

My permanent fix was to use Bottles for EA Games and it’s worked fine ever since then. Lutris works fine for everything else though.

I’m pretty sure compatibility mode in Windows hasn’t actually done anything after Windows 7. There were a few games and programs I had running on Win7 using the XP compatibility mode, but using the same setting on Win10 did nothing.

Windows 10 also seemed to be the time many games started needing community made patches to run even if the game worked fine on 7.

EndeavourOS is what got me to daily drive Linux finally.

The installation is easy, it’s got sane defaults and pre-installs most common dependencies.

Here’s what I use to get them back and I’ve been pretty happy with it.

As crazy as it sounds, some people only trust software backed by a large corporations.

Valve for the most part has extremely good will amongst the typical gaming crowd. While Linux as a whole doesn’t.

I’ve tried to sell people on Bazzite before when they’ve brought up wanting SteamOS for the desktop, But I always get ‘But it’s not “REAL” SteamOS, just some random Linux devs clone’.

I agree it’s the wrong way to go about thinking of it, Probably backed up very few people outside the Linux space understanding what a distro actually is. But it’s still the general consensus among your average gamer sadly…

Still I’m hopeful an offical SteamOS release will be good for getting more people to try and explore the Linux space.

I actually bind the top two as clones of the bumpers, Maybe I just have small hands and that’s why I’ve always liked PlayStation controllers more? But the bumpers on the Deck feel like a reach and not somewhere to comfortably rest your fingers on.

For the other two it’s normally duck & jump, or some button you have to regularly hold down while doing other things.

He did mention a handful of them “SteamOS like” distros at the start, and hopefully he covers Bazzite in the future.

But as I said before your average gamer wants a Valve backed up OS because they trust Valve more than open source devs they hardly know of.

I would like more people to try distros like Bazzite but just getting people to try any form of Linux is still a stepping stone imo.

Yeah I agree with you most the time.

I was gonna give him credit for talking positively about the Discover app store, but he also made the whole flatpak vs native package thing sound way more complicated than it really is…