May I ask how does turning it off cause more wear and tear? From my understanding, running it constantly wears it out, but I've never heard that turning it off causes it to thermal wear?
I fucking hate Discord with a passion because of all the information basically being held behind a proprietary piece of software, so I downloaded Legcord to at least be able to join those communities without sacrificing my own privacy.
Highly recommend it! I have a Fallout terminal theme, and actually enjoy using it for once knowing that the actual app is not installed on my computer. :)
Yeah, in this day and age, why even keep the computer running if there aren't any important tasks running? I've always shut my computers down at the end of the day, but mainly because I'm poor and watch my bills very closely... :P
Yeah, some of the Steam reviews on God of War Ragnarok were almost exactly like this.
“Oh, no! You have to use a third-party login to play your game! Get over it, it’s a great game, who cares about you having to go out of your way to arbitrarily create an account for a platform you’ve never used before!” - essentially.
Look into Sideloadly and uYouPlus by qnblackcat . I’ve been using it for years now, and while a hassle to sign the apps every week, it’s the best we have unfortunately.
It's the game that I wished GameFreak would make. It's got it's.. silly story moments, but isn't that just a Pokemon staple at this point?
The mechanics were what really impressed me the most. Everything that I loved about Pokemon, all wrapped up in a very well done manner. I'm excited for you to give it a try!
Also, there is Pokemon Brown (older style than Unbound, but supposedly very very good), Pokemon Uranium (more of the type of hack that I normally wouldn't play since it includes Fakemon, but Nintendo went after it at one point, so I downloaded it as soon as I could!), and Pokemon Insurgence (I believe Nintendo went after this one too, but I might be wrong!).
There is also a community project that lists whatever they run across. I don't remember it right now either, but it might be on the PokeCommunity website. :)
I've beaten most of the older Pokemon games, DS and 3DS included, all on the SteamDeck.
I put ~40 hours into Pokemon Unbound (FANTASTIC Pokemon game, I highly recommend it!!!), and beaten it. I've also recently gotten the Pokemon Sword and Shield Ultimate Plus rom hack downloaded, and will play through that once I finish the other mainline games. I might make a pitstop into Pokemon Emerald Seaglass, as I just ADORE the art style of that game.
DefJam Fight for NY, King's Field 4, Custom Robo, Legend of Zelda Minish Cap, Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past, Legend of Zelda Oracle Series. All of them beaten on the SteamDeck, with achievements from RetroAchivements!
I have never been as happy as I am with the SteamDeck. Fantastic retro gaming device! :)
Yes, games and programs that are games adjacent are mainly what I use.
I've happily gamed on openSUSE, but have only been successful with anything through Steam. Some GOG games work, but I tried a few abandonware games (Sims 1, Sims 2) and could never get them installed properly for whatever reasons. Because of this, and the programs such as save editors, I actually went and created a KVM just for those Windows programs that I didn't want to reboot just to get back into Windows for.
Either way, I have "tweaked" Windows with ChrisTitusTech's Windows Utility just so I can block/remove as much telemetry and tracking as possible. I pine for privacy through Linux though. :/
I am wanting to help more though, so I've been to a few GitHub repos (wemod-launcher) to try and help them when I run into a problem on openSUSE. I may be a noob, but I want to try and help those that are trying to help convert those lost like I still hanging on to Windows for their niche stuff.
I've heard the right tool for the right job before. I just truly do love Linux, and want to only stay on there. :(
He also uses random children as meat shields to prevent someone from taking a shot at him..