Why not just use live updates? No rebooting till they actually have a reason to reboot.

GabeCube was good enough for me.

I’d rather eat at an A&W than a McDonalds or a Burger King, too easy.

Software dev here. You can definitely use the Steam Deck as a work device if you also use distrobox. I would 100% use my steam deck if it had a bigger HD. My older NUC still works well for now, so personally I see no reason to upgrade the SD’s SSD and switch over. But I have used my SD for work just to see how it is and everything works great; just dock + mouse + keyboard. As it is now, do I want games on my SD or do I want work on there. Obviously I want games on my SD.

But I would also suggest, you go with an inconspicuous laptop. No reason to scare off the ladies with Nerd toys. Everyone says it doesn’t matter, but it does. Better to just fit in on this one.

All of them.

hahahahahahahahahahahaha, I’m ded.

rclone is pretty reliable. That’s how I back up my nextcloud to two different object storage sites. I have Nextcloud dockerized on a VPS in the cloud (among other dockerized services for selfhosting). Been syncing nonstop for 3 years now. I also used rclone to sync all my files from OneDrive directly to my VPS block storage. Rclone is a very underrated utility.

It’s a random sampling of devices. That’s why looking at the English only numbers are more consistent. Sometimes the randomness is heavily skewed to China, and sometimes has very little China. See here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#languagesanchor

Bazzite is great. I tried it out for gee whiz. I don’t use it because I use my PC for dev work. Bazzite is purpose built for gaming. If that’s what you use that machine for, then I’d say it’s a good move. But really, you’ll be just fine for gaming if you stick with a standard distro too. I’m on Ubuntu now, but plan to move the second Pop!_OS hits beta.

it offers no GUI to easily create and manage user groups

Correct, a very common task for little grandmas and other average users.

That’s what the tty is for, or at worst a bootable thumbdrive, CD, or Floppy. If I can’t switch to a tty, I boot a bootable drive, mount my harddrive, and chroot my install. No second machine required. It’s rare that I fuck something up though. Rest assured it was some bullshit I was trying, zero to do with Linux itself. But I do remember Windows would just bork itself randomly for no reason at all. I’m sure Microsoft has all that resolved now, but man back in the day it was painfully often.

You are. You are supposed pretend, everything you know on Windows should immediately transfer to Linux. Try to do techie things on Linux the Windows way; borking your system. Finally claim Linux isn’t ready for the average user, despite not using Linux like an average user would.

Yeah, it’s killer. Just replace cd with z, for everything. Also, popd to drop down the stack.

Shouldn’t be any problems. I’d suggest rclone. Great tool. I use it to reliably and safely copy files from my cloud server block storage to two different blob storage locations. rlcone will do anything. A simple cp will probably get it all done for you too, but I don’t know how important the data is to you.

fuzzy finding.

Something else you can do. Install oh-my-bash or oh-my-zsh, either, with zoxide jump around. Any of the directories you visit are tracked and weighted with a frecency weighted value. Then all you need to do is type in parts of the name to go there.

For instance, if I had directories ~/code/dev_repo/project-one ~/code/dev_repo/project-two ~/code/dev_repo/project-three

Then you just type z dev one or z co re pro two You know, the parts of the directories you remember. The more you visit various directories and the more recent, the weighting is higher and the more likely you get the correct directory you want with even less and less characters. Also check out atuin it adds a fuzzy finding to your bash history or zsh history.

I don’t know why this is being downvoted

Oh quit your whining. Stop making excuses.

short answer: There is generic support already in the kernel. It’s up to the game controller MFG to use that standard. Also, the generic controller standard probably doesn’t support a lot of the new features, so it makes sense to have a driver to support the extra features of the controller.

longer answer is way too long.

Would be fine. The problem is, Microsoft is encrypting drives and not telling anybody about it. Average users have no clue what any of this is and are completely unaware they need to create a passphrase for safe keeping.

Don’t be so disingenuous. The same shit happens on Windows. And there is no guarantee that your drivers will work between Windows versions.

That doesn’t stop any of them. Windows users still go, willy nilly, traipsing around the internet downloading and installing random things. There is no money, no checks and balances. I’m sure you’ve read Windows converts complaining, “Linux isn’t ready for the average user because it’s too hard to install programs, they want to be able to download an installer, then click next next next and have the application installed.” They think the security of package management is too much for the average user.

Sure, FOSS could get some bad actors. It would be no different than the closed source community. At least with FOSS, there is still opportunity for people to find and eliminate the bad code. The world runs on Linux and FOSS. The place where you would want to sneak in some bad code the most. You’d have a much bigger impact. And, it does happen on occasion, people notice, and the bad code is removed. Compare that to the much smaller, Windows world, where you need anti-virus checkers and maleware checkers.

It sounds like you have the computing world inverted. You believe Windows and closed source is the most dominant computing paradigm. It’s not.