I got a Steam Deck last year and it really opened my eyes to how far along gaming on Linux has come. Even a crash-riddled game like Fallout: New Vegas runs more smoothly than it ever did in Windows.
Yeah, I"m planning on getting one as well - the switch has made me realize how great having "real" games on a portable platform is - just waiting for a hardware refresh.
Protondb says that 99% of my games will run OK on Linux now, so when I build out a PC later this year, I think I'll finally make the leap to Linux on the desktop. I have to use Win 11 at work and I find it frustrating.
A very high percentage of my game collection works on proton (and a decent amount natively even) but my problem is that last couple of percent tends to be big games with the most play time which don't work because of anti cheat instead of technical reasons :/.
I moved to Linux (Manjaro KDE) as my primary desktop OS about 3 years ago and it's been great. I'm a casual gamer and all of my Steam games run good on Linux. I run Windows 10 in a VM that I use occasionally for work stuff using MS Remote Desktop.
Go for it. I'm sure it depends on the games that you play, but for me, everything "just works" under Steam and Linux. I'm mostly 4G or builder-games, with some RPG like Baldur's Gate.
Work does use Microsoft stuff, and I do work from home a lot. However, everything is in the cloud now, which works just fine from Linux and Vivaldi or Firefox.
tl;dr: When I put together my new machine about 1-1/2 years ago, there was no longer a Windows partition. Haven't missed it...
We took some goofy career test in high school, and my top choices were 1) Lighthouse Keeper 2) Mortician and 3) Librarian. Wound up becoming a librarian for the past 24 years. So I guess the test was accurate.
Around 20 years ago, I discovered the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and realized there were like-minded people to me. Got fixed in my early 20s.
I'm happy to see the antinatalist message hitting so many media outlets in recent years! My parents only had me due to boredom and social pressure, so it's thrilling to see people open their eyes to other options.
I've been trying to record a short video every year for my wife, should I pass. I read somewhere that hearing a voice is the hardest thing to remember over time. I keep them in a folder on my desktop called "In the event of my untimely demise" along with what bills need paid, who online needs to know I passed, how to get into my password manager, and approximate values of my hobby stuff.
I would love to buy a little Suzuki flatbed truck. I have bad legs, so crawling into the back of a standard American (read: TALL) pickup is impossible, and even getting into one as a passenger is a challenge.
That was not the Harrison Barnes I was expecting. I spent a good few minutes figuring out why he'd be checking out a college with no D1 basketball program.
