I don’t get it

Mint is often the most recommended distro, because whatever you may need to do in it, it tends to be easy-ish to figure out.

But these days I would strongly recommend in favor of some immutable distro like Bluefin/Aurora or Silverblue/kinoite. Instead of being easy to figure out how to do things on them, they make it so you won’t need to, ever.

It’s a complete paradigm shift and it might not be for everyone, but in the decades I’ve been using Linux for, I had never had such a smooth experience with any distro. Everything just works and you don’t need to think about the OS anymore.

However it won’t easily fit with some of the requirements you listed.

Nice! Earlier this year I skipped on a game I had been wanting for a long time, and I skipped it because of Denuvo. I might as well buy this one just to support the removal this time.

Both the country and the bird are spelled Peru, no ú in either.

In theory, yes. In practice, dealing with games is not so straightforward. Even the steam deck’s “suspend” is still far behind the Nintendo switch’s. In some games (older stuff, usually) the games don’t get paused at all, or it pauses the image but keeps the sound playing, or even sometimes appears to work properly, but then drains your battery just as fast as it you were playing - suggesting it is still processing the whole game in the dark.

Are their printers bad? I haven’t even tried any in decades because their business practices are so awful, but I always thought that at the very least the printers themselves should be good.

Sadly, Brother’s printers might be going on the same direction now.

If the competition make some good portables, Valve will probably leave the hardware to them and focus only on the software.

There’s a movie trilogy about Musashi? How come I never heard about it before?

You’re right that the e2ee part is only about protecting the data while in transit, but that is because it’s the hardest part. Apps can also store the data in an encrypted format so that other apps won’t be able to read it.

Having control over the OS doesn’t help if the OS doesn’t understand the app’s data.

Provides a single process that can be used by all message apps so that they don’t need to implement backdoors into all of them?

Check out Going Medieval. Doesn’t have everything DF has, but it’s something.

It’s low-poly so it’s not that big of a jump, but the 3d camera alone makes it so much easier to play than dwarf fortress.

Just hop back to the shower.

Getting a bit tired of KCD2 by now, not sure what to play next. Might be doing some gamedev for a while instead.

Bad rats.

I hate MS in some markets, but don’t mind it as much in others. Can’t say the same about Google.

You blocked him for a reason

In a parallel universe where epic came out with the Deck instead of Valve, things are probably quite different. But no, Valve announces steam deck and the first thing epic does is drop their already small support for Linux.

I still use cheat-o-matic to this day. When it doesn’t work I try the similar options on cheat engine

My publisher once asked me to remove my game from itch.io, saying it was needed to negotiate some deal with valve. I don’t know how much of it was true though. I had set up that itch.io before signing with the publisher.