I got a very recent Thinkpad and it apparently has official support for Ubuntu and Fedora. I went with Fedora KDE.

1. Linux is intentionally made to be modular and using the terminal is pretty much the only standard way to do things across many distributions.

I highly suggest you stop avoiding it because it will most likely be faster and easier to do something (i.e. system-level changes) with it than not.

2. If you want a hard-to-fuck-up distro, I think Atomic (at least that’s what Fedora calls them) distros are the best.

Similar to smartphones or MacOS, entire OS is a singular image that is also updated all at once. Core parts of the filesystem is also read-only, meaning it is pretty much impossible to mess things up if you don’t mean to do so deliberately.

The best in this regard are from uBlue project: Bazzite (most popular), Bluefin, Aurora, etc. While Bazzite is intended for gaming (things like Steam are pre-installed), the other are for general use. Bluefin uses GNOME desktop, while Aurora has KDE Plasma desktop environment. Look up their visuals and choose whichever one you like. I prefer Aurora because KDE Plasma is often much more familiar to Windows users.

3. uBlue distros don’t require a password for system updates (they happen automatically in the background) and so do installing/updating programs.

Good call. Fixed.

TBH, I don’t feel as bad because I used “quit to main menu” trick a few times, so not really earned. I am doing my next playthrough with hard rule where I won’t do that during combat.

I guess the closest you can come to this is by taking a screenshot of your desktop and setting it as the background of the display manager. Otherwise, Hyprlock seems like your best option.

Same as last week, Silksong. My second Steel Soul attempt ended with

First, you should learn about Wine prefixes. Arch Wiki has a good write-up about it.

After the game is installed, you need to edit that setup.exe you added as a non-Steam game and point it to the game’s actual executable.

Steam’s Wine prefixes are usually located in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata. This directory should have some text config files that you can read to find out what ID Steam has assigned to it.

Also, you might have more luck with Bottles (available through flatpak) which is more suited for such tasks.

Died to Moorwing… Contact damage :(

Does Silksong count? I am on my second Steel Soul attempt.

My least favorite would probably be Headless Ape from Sekiro, though Savage Beastfly from Silksong is quite close to it.

Love me some flatpak updates. I hope it will be as good as Android’s sandboxing in the near future.

I think the home server is probably Linux, since the middle panel is from KDE Plasma.

You don’t need to have different drives to avoid Windows overriding your bootloader. Having a separate EFI partition for your Linux install should be enough.

What version is your kernel? I thought Pop!_OS provided newest versions of it.

Since you mentioned that this is a hybrid-GPU laptop, I’d suggest trying to change your default GPU to Nvidia exclusively from the relevant system tray applet. I did use to use Linux Mint on my old Acer gaming laptop and this helped a lot.

Did you install proprietary Nvidia drivers through the Driver Manager app?

I love systemd!

What are your computer specifications? How did you install your games?

Hollow Knight in preparation for Silksong

Well, I just gave my reason for using Arch. Pre-Turing cards are already problematic on Linux, not just with Hyprland.

Arch Linux. I wanted to try Hyprland with something and I felt like it was the easiest with Arch.

Unfortunately, no. My assertion came from sheer popularity of their GitHub repositories and personal observation among my tech-savvy friend groups.

You can start checking out their code yourself, though. There are a lot of open-source software out there and it would be unfeasible for anyone to audit their code themselves. At some point, you’ll have to put some trust into others. Be it software audit companies, or the Signal developers.