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True, but there’s always the option of installing KDE or something else with Wayland support

Idk how well Debian stable would work, but Debian Sid might be a bit easier to work with in terms of games with it being more on the bleeding edge.

There’s also Linux Mint Debian if you want to stay in the Debian universe, but you’d get more of the ease of use of Mint.

Me personally, I’m using Fedora for gaming and I haven’t really had many issues with it. If you’re feeling adventurous, you could try Fedora or Nobara, which is a more gaming focused spinoff of Fedora

if i buy the store brand american cheese at my supermarket, they’re not individually packed and aren’t really that hard to separate on their own, so lmao idk why Kraft does that.

man, the gallery and calendar were great!

my parents keep buying Amazon FireTV devices and they are so annoying and underpowered. I want them to just buy an HTPC or something, but they wont listen cuz thats more expensive, even tho they’ve been through multiple Fire TVs cuz they crap out

That would be a fun project for sure. If you’ve got the funds, the time, and the space, I’d say go for it!

oh man that would be sick! I hope you achieve your dreams.

Yeah I’m sad that the rise of EV’s coincides with just how extra cars have become in recent years. If you sold me a mid 90s Honda Civic hatchback with an electric drivetrain, no internet connectivity, no electric door handles or touch screens, I’d be happy with it.

man Nier Automata is still one of the most engrossing games I’ve played in a really long time. So good.

oooh the Copy Link without Site Tracking feature looks like it would be pretty useful

Im sure people will still be using Java 8 then, so its fine

oh wow thats interesting info. Thanks for sharing!

naa i’ll keep doing what I’m doing

been playing around with sway on my laptop and it’s been pretty fun. Tiling window managers are fun!

It’s understandable to feel that way about trying a new OS. It’s a pretty big decision. I think the only way to know would be to try one out. and see if you like it. Linux can run pretty well on old hardware, so I wouldn’t be too concerned there.

There’s a few ways to try out linux without committing to even a dual boot. You could try running it in a VM in windows. I’ve used VirtualBox in the past to do that and it worked out fine. You may not get to properly see how well your hardware does in a VM tho.

You can also create a LiveUSB with Persistence, if you’ve got a spare USB thumbdrive lying around thats large enough (>= 4GB at smallest, maybe?). This will allow you to boot your computer into Linux off of a USB drive and try it out. the Persistence setting will allow you to save any changes you make to it like installing software or creating files to persist on the USB drive so you can go back to Windows and come back and all your changes will be there. It won’t do anything to your Windows install at all.

You said you have an engineering background and use proprietary software. It’s possible that some of it may run on Linux. Is it software you run on your own personal machine, or just use at work? You can check the WINE Appdb to see how any software you may need thats non-negotiable (as in an alternative just wont cut it) will work. A lot of times, the issue isn’t really that things wont run on Linux or WINE, but that they have antipiracy or anticheat measures that won’t accept an OS other than the one it was written for.

Valve has really done a lot for gaming on linux, and a lot of Steam games do work well. Idk what kind of games you play, but you can always check ProtonDB for Steam compatibility. Just be sure to click on “PC” once you select the game you’re looking for. Sometimes there are tweaks you may need to do (Lookin at you Blue Reflection, lmao) in order to get things to work. Other times, stuff will just run out of the box (eyyy Sekiro). For games outside of steam, I’d look at Lutris, or again, the WINE AppDB. AreWeAntiCheatYet? maintains a list of games that have anticheat systems and if they have, or have plans to implement, linux support.

I would recommend you start with Linux Mint. It’s based on Ubuntu, which is a really popular distro, so there’s tons of support you’ll be able to find out there on the internet that should apply. The standard Cinnamon package should be good, unless you really feel your PC is old, then maybe the XFCE version will be better. (It’s more lightweight than Cinnamon). If you do ever go down the route of distro hopping if you choose to do a dual boot, I’d recommend maybe setting up a separate /home partition when you’re installing Linux, but that’s wayy further down the line from just trying it out.

Have fun with it!

Cheapshark is what I generally use. I haven’t bought stuff from every seller they track, but so far I havent had any issues with Humble, Greenman, GoG Fanatical, Gamebillet, or WinGameStore. Tho for the last two I’ve only made one purchase through them. Take it as you will.

Their email notifications are pretty handy

oh man thats tough to hear. I hope he gets well.

Blender: If you’re interested in 3D modeling or Animation
Inkscape: If you have any need for a vector graphics program thats a bit like Adobe Illustrator
OBS: If you need to do any screen recording or livestreaming
Haruna Video Player: It plays videos and can also play youtube videos if you paste in a link. (This also pulls in yt-dlp as a dependency, which allows you to download youtube videos and the like from a terminal)
btop: A nice looking system resource monitor that runs in a terminal