People abusing that is also often brought up as a reason or at least excuse for publishers to bleed developing countries dry when it comes to pricing, ask me how I know :/
I wouldn't say unusable but NVIDIA definitely makes things way more painful than they ought to be with their closed source drivers and general stubbornness to support newer technologies under Linux, see Wayland. Mint's generally older packages also might be working against you.
In my experience, I've had the smoothest experiences with gaming focused/adjacent distros which just include the NVIDIA drivers out of the box, such as Nobara or Bazzite. Those just work for the most part with no user intervention, and you don't even have to think about it.
Nada te impede de usar o KDE Plasma em uma distro baseada em Debian, a distro e o ambiente gráfico são independentes. Basicamente qualquer distro hoje em dia vai te deixar escolher pelo menos entre Gnome e KDE Plasma, muitas vezes tem até mais opções!
I've always been under the impression they don't support multi touch at all, I guess your findings corroborate that. Niche as your use case is, I do love the idea though!
Ah, interesting! I'd have guessed about a dozen annoyances before that one even came to mind haha. Hope you have a good time around these parts at any rate :)
Also, I'd never taken a serious look at the German layout but going by the truly wild differences there you may as well stick with what you have IMO, I think it's what I'd do at least.
A lot of us don't live in the US to begin with, so I assume a significant portion of us just use whatever the local standard is. That's where I've been at so far, the Brazilian layout is a QWERTY variant so not that different. It does make some things more awkward, but you get used to what you have to work with.
Brackets and curly braces are less convenient off the top of my head, backticks too. Vim is a tad less ergonomic without some extra fiddling, for instance. In fact, I've been considering getting a US keyboard for coding to make that kinda thing less of an issue, US international makes accents and whatnot accessible enough that I think I could make it work.
I'll second Rust, it's so fresh and versatile! You can go from super low level stuff all the way to things like web frameworks with WebAssembly and whatnot.
The memory model is definitely a unique beast but I've found it gave me some insight on how it all actually works behind the scenes and I appreciate the strictly enforced correctness too.
I've been thinking about that. It's the one walled garden I don't mind, I've poured shameful amounts into it but the thought is always there in the background that it can't go on like this forever.
At the end of the day I don't mind too much and just try to enjoy it while it lasts, since worst comes to worst I'll just have to sacrifice some convenience and dive back into full-time piracy to regain access to the vast majority of the content anyway. The wonders of an open platform!
My understanding as a NixOS user is a lot of its fundamentals are very strongly coupled to systemd. It's responsible for things like running system activation scripts and managing any services it exposes options to, so replacing it sounds like a tall order.
I'm not aware of any Nix-based alternatives, but I'd definitely welcome them! Oh and also, as others have pointed out, Guix might fit the bill depending on your needs.
I overshare my Nix setup at the slightest hint it could be relevant and I also feel like I've shilled Bazzite at least once basically every week or so ever since I created this account, but I guess I'll settle for second place 😛
Joking aside, thanks for sharing, that was a great read. Good for newcomers and skepticals alike IMO, I'll keep it handy!
Since you want a just works deal, I'd go with a ublue based immutable distro, my favorite is Bazzite. You can pick between KDE and Gnome, and change between them cleanly at any point. User apps auto update in the background, your system also updates while it's running and you only need to reboot to apply. If anything ever goes wrong, you have painless rollbacks. All that with up-to-date fedora packages and kernel.
I've been running it on my deck for a while now and it's never let me down so far, really pleasant experience. It generally keeps out of your way and takes care of the chores while still allowing you to mess around if you want.
I haven't actually finished DD1 but that's 100% on my attention span, it's an amazing game and I'm super excited for the sequel! Never played anything quite like it, the way you explore and how dark and terrifying nighttime is will always stick with me. I started on that hard difficulty setting way back when, forgot what it's called, and it was a really fun ride right up to the point I suddenly stopped playing for no particular reason I can recall.
Oh and it's got some of the coolest spells I've ever seen in a game. Take something like the tornado spell. Most games would hand you a moderately sized green wind burst or something and call it a day, DD actually gives you what feels like a city destroying one you take ages to cast lol. Most of the ones I remember are like that and I love them so much.
Yup, that'd be fantastic! We also probably wouldn't have to choose between gyro and analog triggers when it comes to third party controllers and their usual Switch Pro Controller/xinput modes if that became a thing.
Taking a closer look, you're right. I was fooled by the headline there, serves me right for not double checking 😅. As a Wii owner back in the day I'm all too familiar with the limitations of accelerometer only controllers so that's massively disappointing.
I'll probably be sticking to playstation controllers for the foreseeable future anyhow for how feature packed they are, just wish gyro became more widespread.
My feelings exactly, I can only hope the leaked Sebile controller does come to exist as a finished product someday. Gyro and proper haptic feedback would basically put it on par with the Dualsense sans touchpad and it'd mean all major platforms have gyro available by default.
People abusing that is also often brought up as a reason or at least excuse for publishers to bleed developing countries dry when it comes to pricing, ask me how I know :/