I’ve seen advice to turn the firewall on, but that would probably mess up any multiplayer.

Tbh I just started playing Unciv instead, which is an open-source recreation of Civ V + G&K, with a BNW mod already existing.

AFAIK, there are mods that add Civ VI rules as well. It’s been great for me because you can play it on your phone, so you can start a Marathon game with your friends and just crack out a few turns throughout the day.

From what I understand, these are the data types their EULA allows them to collect:

• Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address
• Protected Characteristics: Age and gender
• Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information
• Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address
• Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications
• Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls)
• Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest
• Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting)
• Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

Now, this may not be any more egregious than other big corpo EULAs, but I really don’t want Take2/2K to have a full profile on me in their database.

Just a warning, 2K’s new EULA is EXTREMELY invasive.

Oh shit, I saw that the original Leisure Suit Larry games are no longer for sale… wonder if this is why?

🎶Tell my girl I will be gone by Septuneugust🎶

Sign up for Plutonium and add it to Steam, worked like a dream on Linux

Rick Rubin is not a vibe coder

Very nice! I’d been thinking there should be a standardized guide for switching, but this is so much better!

Yeah the required Activision account was already putting me off. I don’t think I’ll be getting this one. No skating to Cut Chemist Suite means I’m out.

“lol,” I said, “lmao”

Insurance in America paying for something

No problem, friend! I hope you enjoy yourself!

Due to being made by such a small team (Toby Fox made most of the game himself, to my knowledge), Undertale has a really unique creative vision. It’s definitely Earthbound-inspired, but there’s nothing like the music, art, and humor of Undertale. It’s a game for the ages for sure.

Spiritual successor/sequel, kinda, AFAIK. You would definitely get a lot more out of it if you played Undertale first. But, if the first two chapters are anything to go by, all of the things originally from Undertale have been totally repurposed. For instance, quite a few NPCs from Undertale show up with the same characterization but no memory of the world and events in Undertale.

Though, knowing Toby Fox, there’s either a huge twist or something super meta tying the worlds together at the end. I should note I haven’t finished it yet.

Hmm, would have thought the reputation preceded the community a bit more. All the more reason for people to play Deltarune, out now on Steam.

idk is it really an in-joke to imply Deltarune fans are gay?

Hopefully once Linux gets a big enough market share, the devs that don’t have Linux compatibility for their anti-cheat start adding it. That’ll really expedite its growth in the personal computer market. I think a lot of people would at least attempt to switch to Linux if you told them it was free and would run Call of Duty better.

Linux really needs decent compatibility with Adobe products, evil as they are. Linux is catering to gamers now, the coders are already there, and it totally works for the people that just need a web browser, word processor, e-mail, and some communication programs. If it can do what artists need it to, using the industry standard programs, to what other group of PC users is there to appeal?

Honestly, yeah. The real choice is rolling vs fixed release, and then your DE. I usually tell beginners to try Pop!_OS because it’s easy to use and Ubuntu-based if they need tech support. Though something with a KDE spin would probably be better for a Windows refugee…

I ended up going with CachyOS because I feel confident enough to try Arch now, but I think Solus is going to be my go-to when recommending for beginners, once I try it a bit more. I think it’s a good blend between stable and cutting-edge, plus getting to tell people that you won’t have to replace it with Solus 2 eventually is kinda a big selling point.

Hmm, thank you for your point about Solus. I was interested because it seemed the most interested in the desktop experience. But it does seem they’re updating and getting back on track. I love the idea of a weekly rolling release for beginners who still need the idea to click.

I do have backups ;)

See, this is what I meant. I deflected because my phrasing gave everyone else enough information that they could just suggest a distro.

I appreciate that you’ve clearly put thought into the recommendation you want to give, and I appreciate that you’d like to really understand what I’m looking for. But at the time of your original comment, CachyOS was baremetal on my machine. So, I’ve already picked what I want, and you’re insisting I must explain in greater detail so that you may answer my question (already been answered).

Please feel free to enlighten me on what made you even consider the premise of your above question.

The fact that you were insistent no one “delved into the essence of the matter.” I didn’t need them to, I was researching every OS that anyone mentioned.

but instead asked for a comparison between three distros that were (somehow) selected by you.

They’re all gaming distros, dude. I felt like that was evident.

I’m sorry this whole post discussion has not gone the way you wanted, but it’s gone the way I wanted. And I believe I’ve found something that works for me.

But, in the end, it ain’t Sophie’s Choice. I have my important files on a thumb drive and a backup thumb drive with Pop!_OS in case I need to start fresh again. NBD.