I always preferred TFTD; UFO Defense/Enemy Unknown was a great game, no questions, but it always felt a bit too easy and rather less creepy in comparison to its sequel.

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Quoting: CarollyStuff Wot I Said

Inexperienced Linux users may initially want something shiny and niche and novel, but my experience is that willingness to tinker simply isn't that common amongst that population; they want Windows. Windows familiarity, Windows stability, Windows compatibility, Windows ubiquity. Either the requisite learning curve to hammer the distro into the expected shape of OS is low, or they reject the distro and return to the familiar (read: Windows).

Maybe it's just a matter of my being at a different stage in life than many (as I enter middle age,) but in spite of being quite techie and having used Linux for some time now, this is still about what I want from a Linux distro; I don't want to have to fiddle with it too much. I'm glad that I know enough to customize some things but I really don't care to get deep into the nitty gritty.

Honestly I think part of the problem we run into is that as a community we're susceptible to conflating "experienced Linux user" with "basically a full-stack developer" and that's no longer anywhere near true, and shouldn't have to be! I'm glad that my OS handles most of the grunt work so I can get to the parts that actually matter to me (i.e., using it!) It saves me time and energy that I don't want to spend, particularly when I have other things that I'd rather be doing.

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Quoting: NezchanI'll be honest, for a new user who's not familiar with Linux, or like me an established user who's bad with complicated tech stuff, what really matters is ease of being able to type "problem + distro name" into a search engine and have a reasonable chance of a cut & paste solution 95% or more of the time.

If I didn't have as much Linux experience as I do, the freakin' mess that is trying to get instructions on how to set up Nvidia drivers on Fedora would have driven me screaming from the distro altogether. And if I was new altogether I'd be back on Windows and hesitant to look again. That's what matters far more than whether the OS is optimized for gaming, whatever that even means these days.

This typically works the same as long as you know your upstream. "problem + fedora(v#)" will typically produce workable solutions for Nobara, for example.

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Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrhea¨gaming optimized distros" are the dumbest thing ever, hobby projects that do not contribute anything upstream and do not teach their users anything.
But they are always fast and efficient when they have to setup their patreon...

Because nobody at all uses Proton-GE patches or Cachy kernel optimizations amirite?

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Honest question for you, why is it that year after year you stick your nose up in the air over great distros like Nobara, CachyOS, and PikaOS, in favour of large corporate-backed projects? Any of them are excellent distros for gaming and more than just "a few tweaks and a new theme" (and generally they make it very easy to install Nvidia drivers - Nobara and Pika even offer ISOs with the Nvidia drivers preloaded!)

I'm curious if you've tried running any of the three in recent years. You might actually enjoy using them if you gave them a shot.

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