Yeah, even the “difficult” distributions tend to just be a matter of following instructions to get a working installation. Gentoo was a massive PITA to maintain though. Chances are I was missing some knowledge that would’ve simplified things, but I spent way too much time on maintenance for the system to actually be useful. Arch has been much kinder.

The launcher wasn’t cracked. It’s a cross-platform open source launcher that works quite well under linux. The game itself was cracked, meaning they were trying to play without having purchased it.

A lot of the modern packs have quests. It could be considered finished when you complete all of those, which I haven’t. Now I’m playing DW20 which doesn’t have quests, so I can avoid all those judgemental looks I was giving myself.

I find it difficult to play vanilla Minecraft anymore. Every now and then my niece will ask if I’ll play with her, so I’ll boot up my switch. Other than that, modded is the way to go. I started shortly after Iskall85 started his single-player Vault Hunters series. Have yet to “finish” any pack, but they’re fun!

It’d probably be less work to install LFS at that point.

The old version, based on Debian and made with Steam Machines in mind, was abandoned. SteamOS 3, based on Arch and made with the Deck in mind, is still meant to have an official generic release at some point afaik.

Lol you’re welcome. We all have those things that bother us more than they reasonably should. That’s one of mine.

old english from the mideval times

That would be Middle English. This is Old English.

Starfield runs just fine with proton, at least on the deck.

Same, though I’m (sorta) not using it now, and I don’t know that I could’ve been considered a hopper.

I started with Ubuntu then gave Gentoo a shot. Got tired of the maintenance and went with LMDE. Switched back to Windows when I switched my gaming from console to PC.

A few years ago I read about Proton and decided to check my Steam library against ProtonDB. All the games I still played (and most that I had stopped) were rated gold or higher. At that point I was done with Windows, at least for machines I own, and gave Arch a shot.

I stuck with that until my power supply died and will be going back to it once I can afford to build a good PC. For now I’m just using my Steam Deck and hooking it up to a dock when I’m at my desk. It runs SteamOS which is Arch-based but a different experience for sure. I can still use Pacman and the AUR, but with some hefty caveats that almost make it not worth it.

Except that realistically people will continue to run the same machines just without security updates.

That was never the company’s official stance. One (non-spokesperson) employee said it once, and people ran with it.

I don’t remember Yoda in Morrowind.

No disparaging intended, it just isn’t my thing.

Arch is about managing the system as a hobby

You’re thinking of Gentoo.

Android was Open Source once until Google decided to mainstream it.

Android is still open source. Proprietary stuff gets added by the time it gets to the consumer, but the base is open.

Yeah, if they can’t even bother making it work with Proton then I can’t bother giving them money.