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Just take an Xbox 360 gamepad, and an Xbox Series gamepad in your hands and compare them. Press the buttons, move the sticks, try the triggers.

One feels like quality. The other feels like

<beep>

I loved that game, and completed it twice, but the last chapter (or last 2 chapters - depending on which ending you get) is super annoying. The encounters are repetitive, and there are quite a lot of them. It's almost the same group of enemies again, and again, and again. Once you have a working strategy those encounters aren't even that challenging, but if you play turn-based, they take a lot of time...

I'm still hooked on Backpack Battles. It's slow enough that medicine-induced-brain-fog ridden me can play it, and it's a lot of fun.

Stay away from any Xbox Series X/S gamepads. They are cheaply made trash.

I bought the standard version of it for my Deck, expecting it to be somewhat comparable to my Xbox 360 gamepad (which I really like, but which does not have Bluetooth), but nope, it is so much worse...

A friend bought the Elite version, and he also agrees that those gamepads are utter garbage.

Mesa has its own OpenCL implementations for AMD GPUs too: Clover and RustiCL. However, Clover is not really developed any more (afaik) and lacks some important extensions, such that many programs can't use it. RustiCL is rather new, and I don't know how well it works.

Backpack Battles. I should have never bought this. It's eating all my spare time.

When I got my Steam Deck the official dock did not exist yet, so I went for a relatively cheap USB hub with power delivery and display port alt mode. I ended up buying this one, and haven't regretted it since: https://www.dlink.com/de/de/products/dub-m420-4-in-1-usb-c-hub-with-hdmi-and-power-delivery

anti-trust authorities

The same anti-trust authorities who have been ignoring

<gestures vaguely towards IT industry>

If you are using systemd, there's a tool called coredumpctl.

It's not a dumb question at all, and there is no "agreed upon" definition.

For me the most important characteristics of a "Mainstream Distribution" would be the size of their maintainer team - though that is also inaccurate if we are talking about distributions that are built on top of other distributions - as in your example.

Another indication is to check who is sponsoring a distribution's development. If there are plenty of commercial sponsors, then chances are that the distribution is well maintained. Similarly, if the distribution is created by a commercial company (Intel, Canonical, RedHat,...), as those companies also have an interest in keeping their product in a good state.

Age of the distribution might be another indicator. If a distribution has been around for a long time, chances are it isn't bad either.

However, I am lazy and would not actually check any of this by hand. Instead, the thing I would actually do is to just go to https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major and read through their list. 😉

I'd strongly recommend to stick to a mainstream distribution like Fedora, Debian, Mint,...

With bigger distributions you have more people working on them (-> more packages well maintained), you get a bigger community, and therefore it's easier to get help if anything breaks.

I'm not sure which distribution to recommend though, as they all have advantages and disadvantages when it comes to gaming. Ten years ago I have switched to Gentoo (which is definitely not a distribution for new Linux users) when I got fed up with Ubuntu's Enshittification, and have stayed there ever since, so I lost a bit track which distributions are good for gaming now and which aren't.

I played without mods, and had the same issue.

I'm pretty sure it's a bug in the native LInux version of Pathfinder: Kingmaker. The Linux build works fine, as long as you play with mouse/keyboard, but with gamepad input the kingdom management screen doesn't work at all...

What I did in order to play it on the Deck was to tell Steam to use the Windows version via Proton instead. (Properties -> Compatibility -> Force a specific compatibility tool -> Proton (I don't remember which version I used).

• Book of Hours. It's a strange game, set in the Secret Histories, the same setting that Cultist Simulator had. Unlike Cultist Simulator, which was rather gruesome, Book of Hours is a relaxed game, about cleaning out and restoring an abandoned library, reading the occult books left in it, and drinking tea with your guests.
• Potionomics. While it's primarily a puzzle game about brewing potions, it has a lot of heartwarming dialogue.
• Settlers 2 (the original DOS game, not the remake). The Settlers series was what brought up the term "Wuselfaktor" (No clue how to translate this. There is an English explanation of the term in this article.), and imho Settlers 2 is (by far) the best part of that series.
• Kerbal Space Program. I can't say why this game makes me happy, but it does. There's something strangely relaxing about drifting through space in free-fall, seeing the planetary surface pass by at high speed below.

Quake II RTX is fully raytraced though. I'm not sure how well performance measurements done with it apply to other games that do a mix of raytracing and rasterizing.

I feel like I have to link this here: The open source project (which also has builds for other platforms than Windows): https://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Who knew electing fascists would lead to fundamental freedoms being removed?

FIFY

I don't know that particular system, so I can't give any hardware-specific suggestions. However, it might be worth checking out the games that previously were included in Humble Mobile Bundles, especially the very first ones. Sorry, I don't have a nice to browse list, but this site seems usable enough: https://barter.vg/bundles/3/76/

That said, OpenTTD is available on F-Droid. That should keep you busy for a while 😉

Yes, it's pretty neat. Though I must confess that I stopped playing at some point and rather continued playing Hades instead.

Ubuntu was pretty good, until 2010 or so. People who still recommend it probably haven't used it in the last 10 years.

"PPA" is Ubuntu's branding for third party repositories. So, of course you will have a hard time adding a Ubuntu-specific third-party repository to anything that isn't the Ubuntu version it's made for...

Debian of course supports third party repos, just like Ubuntu. On Debian they just aren't called "PPA".

For more information on how to add third party repos to Debian (or Ubuntu, if you don't use Canonical's weird tooling), check out the Debian Wiki page on UseThirdParty or SourcesList. There's also an (incomplete) list of third party repositories on the wiki: Unofficial. And just like with PPAs, anyone can host a Debian repo.