I always found it weird how people are willing to install obscure extensions just like that. For any program that supports them. This doesn't surprise me at all.
That being said I'll go recheck the few I have installed...
My laptop's mic seems to have some contact issues. It never worked for a second on windows. I put Linux on it, and it usually just works. When it doesn't, some percussive maintenance does a quick job of fixing it. I guess I was dealt the opposite hand than usual.
If you're that worried about privacy, then your only option is hammer+fire+spread the remains in multiple places. For the average paranoid I think it's enough to make generic file recovery tools ineffective.
Godot can be used for any app, not just games. (Same goes for the other engines, I assume.) Though I can't say if you would have an easier time picking it up, rather than the traditional Java or Kotlin route.
At some point M$ allowed the free download of something called "Windows XP Mode for Windows 7". It was some virtual machine or something. What matters is that it's possible to extract an XP ISO from this, which I have successfully used to spin up a virtual machine! It still complains about a license key, though.
The reason I mention this is that this is still available on archive.org, and it's signed by M$, so you know it's legit. I don't know if other ISOs available have such a receipt of authenticity. Probably, but I never cared enough to check, especially since I grabbed this from the official website while it was available.
The effects of microplastics(/nanoplastics) on humans aren't fully understood yet. We mostly know that they are now everywhere, and are being linked to a number of health issues.
This article suggests that boiling hard tapwater can reduce the intake of microplastics via the formed "scale" trapping the plastic particles.
A better title might be, "Solutions to newcomers's most common problems with Linux"
The video is about the results of a survey regarding the problems people are having using Linux. Only 10% of them described themselves as beginners. That would not be a good title.
I personally see zero condescending tone in it. The video doesn't prove to be toxic like you described either.
IMO this just isn't a good community for this, because nobody clicks on a 20 minute video to figure out what it has to do with "Linux Gaming". Plus YT links are almost always downvoted anyways. I agree that the title isn't the best, because it fails to convey what the video actually contains.
If you have the space (on a different drive, preferably) you could use Timeshift to create regular snapshots of (parts of) your system. You can restore deleted files like this from even months ago, if you configure it like that.
The first snapshot takes up as much space as all the files you want to save, but every following one only uses as much disk space as the new/changed files since the last snapshot.
Proton can run any Windows-only game on steam, you just have to enable it in the settings. The ones for which you didn't have to enable this either have a native linux version, or are officially supported in Proton, and should run very well. The other games may have more issues, but even those might work excellently out of the box.
Fallout's every mechanic keeps disappointing me, but I can always see a glimpse of how great they could be, so I keep playing. Maybe that's just not good enough for you.
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world perhaps?