My personal experience has been hit n miss.

Was using one 4TB Seagate for 11 years then bought a newer model to replace it since I thought it was gonna die any day. That new one died within 6 months. The old one still works although I don’t use it for for anything important now.

I didn’t clock much on my Steamdeck time as it doesn’t seem to count non-steam games…

Honestly my Steamdeck has kinda become a bigger beefier PSP for me, mostly PS2 games or PC racing games of that era.

Somehow missed your reply until now.

They dropped support on the Linux version forever ago and moved to Easy Anticheat which DOES support being used through Proton but the devs won’t enable it.

I agree but it’s sadly the new standard for mainstream gamers to be drip fed “content” like crack so if they feel a games lacking behind they go somewhere else to get their easy fix.

I’ve played games for 100s more hours after their last DLC release just because I loved the gameplay. So it makes my eye twitch when my people I know load into a new game and immediately comb over the battlepass n skins to see if it’s “worth their time”

Game hasn’t received an update in what will be a year later this month.

The main dev keeps promising a huge update is in the works but won’t so much as drop a hotfix for obvious flaws in the game currently. They made more than enough money to bring on extra staff but just didn’t.

BUT you can still easily find games most days on the main modes (assuming you live in the US/EU) And the games been left in a pretty decent state.

I’ve clocked in 319hours and still think Battlebit has been the best FPS game we’ve seen in nearly a decade. Which is why it’s so frustrating the way the devs are handling it currently…

For me that game was Rust and it was more ‘Maybe for the best if I don’t touch that game again’

I play Plutonium BO2 and MW3 semi regularly. Would play more BO1 but it kinda runs like shit through Wine/Proton sadly…

I installed it through Lutris and also had issues with updates until I switched the wine version to GE-Proton 9-20 and that seemed to fix that.

And yeah getting used to the Linux file directory is kinda a pain at first but something you gotta get used to. In Wine games you’ll find your root directory listed as Z: you should be able to find your Steam directory in.

/home/YOURUSERNAME/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/

Or if you have other drives mounted you should know where you mounted them, It’s normally in /run/media/

Another tip would be to cap your FPS to something like 125 because them old Cod games start acting weird at higher frame rates, and you want to keep the FPS as consistent as you can since the mouse sensitive is also tied to the frame rate for some stupid reason!

Didn’t have a dedicated day for it but I used to hang out around the office my mother worked at if dad was on late shift.

I was put “in charge” of the printer and paper shredder.

I ended up actually working at that company in my early 20s after my mother had already left. The Boss and I.T. guy who still worked there joked about my “previous experience at the job”.

Gonna steal an idea from Karl Pilkington and leave a dishwasher somewhere on Mars for one of the rovers to find.

I’m no expert by any means but.

1. The the LTSC branch of windows is the enterprise version Microsoft sell only to businesses that require less flashy feature and longer security support since most business don’t update machines frequently. IOT just seems to be the LTSC version with the longest supported update cycle.

2. It’s slightly less bloated at least the Win10 version doesn’t come with pre-installed games and didn’t even have the Microsoft store installed by default. It still comes with telemetry but heard some say online they’ve had an easier time disabling it and keeping it disabled on the LTSC versions.

3. It’s “free” as in a sandwich you find on the side of the road is free. Microsoft REALLY doesn’t want regular users using their business only services but people always find a way.

4. It’s really only for people who currently refuse Linux but also can’t/won’t upgrade to Windows 11. I’m only suggesting it because I’d rather people at least still get security updates than use a completely unsupported OS.

While I love Linux and wish more people would switch over, I know damn well most people just want to keep using Windows. The people who REALLY want Linux will find it.

Right now I’ve been offering my friends n family who don’t want Win11 two options.

• I help them get started using Linux.

• Or I show them how to get the IoT LTSC branch of Win10 that’ll still get security updates until at the latest 2032.

Most of them including the more tech savy folks just want to keep Win10 with updates, Some have opted to try Linux on a dual boot but few have stuck with it.

At least my experience on KDE the system theme option barely seems to work for GTK programs.

Even tho I specifically went out of my way to get a dark GTK theme in the system settings.

Couldn’t think of any temporary fix I’d done…Then I remembered I’ve been running an network cable out my bedroom window and into the room where the router is for nearly a decade now.

I told myself I’d get around to drilling a hole for it…In the previous place and ended up doing the same thing when I moved here over 3 years ago.

I play and mod a lot of older games most of which aren’t on Steam, so getting some of them running takes a bit more manual effort especially if they require a 3rd party patch to run on modern hardware.

Normally it’s pretty simple like declaring some extra DLL files, But sometimes I’m jumping through hoops trying to get some old installer than hasn’t been updated since 2009 to run…

I’ve had more success than failures though, Wine is pretty amazing imo.

I switched a while back before all the Ai and “privacy preserving” telemetry stuff.

Every update note I see for Firefox now just reinforces my decision.

Modern meaning a GTK app?

The only other DAW I’ve used before Ardour was Reaper and I got my head around Ardours Ui a lot quicker on my first go.

As someone who still plays a lot of 2000s and early 2010s video games, The ‘piss filter’ can stay in the past. And I go out of my way to disable it anytime I can.

For anyone who doesn’t know, look up gameplay of Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) and noticed the heavy yellow tint over the entire screen. So many games from around that era of gaming had heavy handed colour filters. Not always piss yellow but that was a popular one.

Trying to mount an iso image in the terminal and accidentally un-mounting your root drive.

Totally didn’t do that before…nope not even once, definitely not twice >.>

I’ve been told if you see a censored meme it’s probably because someone took it from facebook.

I dunno what’s going on with the moderation over there as I deleted my account nearly a decade ago, back when getting full gore popping up in your feed wasn’t uncommon…

I dunno if the Hub software works but I do have a Seagate OneTouch portable 4TB drive and it worked without issues on Linux after reformatting like I would any other drive.