For me, the Steam Controller is a definite buy. The Steam Machine depends on price; I don't really have a use for it since I already have a gaming PC.

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I spent most of the past two weeks playing The Outer Worlds 2, since I pre-ordered and had early access. Now that the hype train has long left the station, I'm returning to the games I've put on hold.

I intend to wrap up Super Robot Wars Y and Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter (the remake). After that, I'd like to give Elder Scrolls another shot. I played Skyrim briefly years ago, and I intend that revisit that. However, I'm going to start with Morrowind (using OpenMW), followed by Oblivion Remastered. I already had Oblivion in my library, but I heard the remastered version had several good QoL improvements.

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I sure am seeing a lot of games in Unreal Engine 5 these days.

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I'm not at a point where I'm ready to quit Bazzite and Aurora over this, but I'm not sure I like this. Between this and the earlier 32-bit fiasco, it saddens me that Fedora keeps doing stuff to attract controversy after I found what I thought would be a good home on Linux. Maybe I should consider migrating to KDE's new distro once it becomes stable.

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I've never liked EA, so my opinion of them has already been at rock bottom.

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Looks awful. Pass.

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I do have Chrome installed on my devices, just in case a website doesn't work in Firefox w/uBO. In my experience, it's usually my state's government websites that work better in Chrome.

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I don't like the pushing of constant AI features myself, but I plan to stay on Firefox. Firefox is FOSS, while Vivaldi is proprietary. I prefer to use FOSS whenever possible.

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The current i5-12400 in my desktop will probably be my last Intel purchase (although I did buy it secondhand). I do not like NVIDIA, and I refuse to buy any of their products. If they're getting involved with Intel, then I'll move to buying AMD products in the future.

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I love an immutable distro with Flatpaks. Snaps aren't my thing, but they only included the option; it's not like Ubuntu.

If you need packages outside Flathub, then they're not for you. However, if you're someone like me who likes Flatpak and can get everything he needs from there, immutable is great. Ever since I switched to Bazzite + Aurora, I don't have to think about anything. Everything just works, no stability issues whatsoever.

That said, I do question why KDE installed Dolphin as a Flatpak rather than baking it into the OS image. In my opinion, the file manager is best installed as a native package. SteamOS, Bazzite and Aurora all do this; yet, KDE went with the Dolphin Flatpak. I hope that doesn't cause issues.

EDIT: It turns out I was mistaken about Dolphin being installed as a Flatpak. This was done on the pre-alpha, but the Alpha release does have Dolphin, Arc and other utilities baked into the OS image.

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