Half-Life and Half-Life 2 have plenty of really good mods if you are interested in those, Black Mesa started as just a mod as well.

Some of my favourites for HL2:

• Entropy: Zero Two (on the same level of quality as Black mesa and its free on Steam)
• Nightmare House 2 (now named Nightmare House: The Original mod)
• Half Life 2: MMod

Some of my favourites for HL1:

• Half Life: Field Intensity
• Half Life: Delta Particles
• Half Life: MMod

There are many more that I haven’t mentioned / played myself.

My top four on steam are:

• Garry’s mod - 2800 hours
• CS:GO (CS2 now) - 2100 hours
• Terraria - 1000 hours
• Team Fortress 2 - 555 hours

Same over here :)

Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 -> Fedora Workstation -> Fedora Silverblue -> NixOS

Game was fun and had a lot of potential, it’s a shame it didn’t get popular enough.

• Valve
• From Software
• Re-Logic
• Team Cherry
• ppy

I don’t use the Flatpak, but for me the rpc doesn’t seem to work for Steam games, it seems to work for everything else that supports it though.

They’re great on certain desktops, like Fedora’s Atomic Desktops, but you usually have to work around Flatpak specific issues. On NixOS there doesn’t seem to be a declarative way to install them.

I’m a dev, but not a game dev, and I think that open source games that are popular are more likely to stay around, even if the original dev team stops working on it as it can be forked, which is pretty awesome for longevity. Also other “real” open source games: osu! and Veloren.

Have you tried Open Tablet Driver (if your tablet is supported)? I use it on Wayland and it works perfectly for me, but I’m not an artist and I only use it to play osu!.

Steam DB is useful for steam related stuff.

By highly configurable, I meant that you can configure it exactly to your needs, in the same way that you can with Arch.

I use NixOS for University and would highly recommend it if you want a highly configurable system that’s declarative, however, NixOS doesn’t have great documentation for certain features and usually does things differently, so you’ll have to learn the Nix way of doing things. On the plus side, I’ve never been unable to fix my OS when it broke, you simply rollback, or if there isn’t a suitable rollback, you can plug in a live usb and set the system to use a specific commit (can’t remember the exact command for this and that’s presuming you store your config with git). Also according to these statistics nixpkgs has more packages than the AUR.

Hollow Knight