Same with the Misskey clones. There have been some very dramatic opinions on both sides.

Yeah, at this point I have zero sympathy for anyone who voted for them. You find yourself without health insurance, a home, being deported, having your workers deported? Welcome to the find out phase of FAaFO.

It’s been on my list, and I like cozy games… I just never got around to it. And I’m cheap, so unless I noticed it on super sale, I’d put it off until later™️

No, I’m one of the special ones he won’t turn on! The leopard won’t eat my face!

Do they all have main character syndrome and think plot armor will save them?

Nextcloud got too bulky for me, and in my search I tried a number of different options before installing OpenCloud without realizing it isn’t fully finished yet. That said, it still works well enough for my use case.

I originally got it from a series I was reading, but I always liked the idea of everyone having to face the afterlife they believed in. I’ll return to the universe whence I came, that lot can burn forever in a fiery lake of their own making.

Like OP said, you can get Plasma on Bazzite, as well as install it right on a SteamDeck if you have one. It’s constantly being updated, and if gaming is your main driver, Bazzite goes out of its way to make things work. In theory you wouldn’t have to do any tinkering to get games running, with the added bonus that you won’t be messing up or introducing any entropy to your system files. If something does go wrong, you can reboot into the previous release and it’ll be back to where you just came from.

There’s still plenty to learn if you want to, it’s just not the traditional Linux distro setup.

Christianity is a death cult. 🫩

Tailscale is great for not opening your ports to the internet. Having it playable on a friend’s appletv adds some extra complexity. Reverse proxy on a subdomain with something like fail2ban would work, but it does leave you more vulnerable.

Wait, for real? Gen Alpha doesn’t know what a file type is??

No, as an expert on not knowing what the fuck he’s doing, he’s just confirming.

No! It worked in the 90s! It’ll work again any day now!!

Also, we make too much money, so no.

I haven’t stopped to verify, but in the battle at the end, they apparently all attack in initiative order each lasting about six seconds. It’s those little attention to detail bits that make it fun for players, on top of being enjoyable for non-players as a fantasy action movie.

Can’t help with saved game data, but Bazzite is a solid choice, not just because it’s a gaming based distro. It’s one of the immutable distros, so all the important stuff that keeps it running, you can’t mess with (easily). And all your personal stuff that doesn’t keep the computer running, it doesn’t touch. So your computer is always up to date ( faster than steamOS, and if something goes wrong, just reboot into the previous) and you can’t screw it up without trying.

You’re not. If you’re happy with what you’ve got, don’t worry about it. Or join the great Linux tradition of distro hopping. But Mint gets a lot of praise for noobs, but much like Ubuntu there are much better distros out there. It just has name recognition at this point.

They’re waiting to see if we can get past this stage on our own.

Wasn’t it also Fall of Rome playbook too? No, that can’t be right, they would have learnt that lesson.

Agreed. New users often either go Ubuntu or Linux Mint because they’re well known, but really aren’t the best options out there anymore.

I got it in the last month after a week-long in-person all staff. Am up on my vaccines.

It’s seemed like this was the only way out for a while now, but how do we Balkanize peacefully? Or at least with as little conflict as possible? Or do we have to collapse first and the. band together afterwards?