Short term honestly likely fine for your avg person. After even six months tho I wouldn’t trust using it for banking, government sites or anything more sensitive then looking at cat memes.

Suggesting anything that isn’t arch based for a gaming focused solution seems stupid as hell to me. No matter how you cut it, there’s a god damn good reason valve picked arch as a base for steam os.

Other solutions are just not going to be as good. Will they work? Sure you could game in Debian for heaven sake and be perfectly fine.

But it’s just more possible problems. Gaming is basically the exact inverse of non cutting edge. It’s the exact worse case where even bleeding edge may not be new enough to properly support things even months after release.

If your playing 10 year old games anything does fine, but other wise your updating packages to what might be newer then your distro supports regardless as which point why arnt you just on arch where that’s less prone to explode.

Just switch to dota from league ez fix. You get your toxic moba addiction fed and you can ditch league!

Open RGB is a absolutely fucking shit show.

Then again RGB in windows is barely better then a fucking shit show.

RGB controls in general is just bad on everything.

Desktops only frankly became remotely useable to normal people with recent revisions of things like kde…

Between that and software actually finally started becoming remotely reliable in like 2022-2023 for your avg windows user.

Comparing the past to now is not reliable fair.

More progress towards making things normal user friendly have happened in the last 3-5 years then the last 20.

If there’s one thing AI is good at is trawling though a hell scape of random data from across time and space. And outputting… Something reasonably close.

Least close enough to actually put you in the right path 9 times out of 10. Even if the ai is wrong, it’s still vastly more time effective then going to stack overflow for this was solved with no solution present.

Hell I had a issue trying to find documentation for a old game I was modding from 10 years ago that maybe sold 1000 copies the wiki was dead the devs site was dead and the way back machine didn’t have the pages I needed.

Some fucking how chat gpt knew the game, was able to identify it correctly from a script I gave it then spat out the exact correct context and documentation I needed.

It was flabbergasting. Cause at the same time it told me the game came out in 1995 when it came out in 2015… It got basic ass info wrong but the technical details right.

I was so fucking confused how it managed that.

The day a open source project has good marketing is the day the end of the world happens.

It’s just impossible for some reason.

Don’t forget if a previously popular application starts to become unpopular its typically for a good reason! So watching downward trends can also clue you into issues or problems you would not have other wise known.

People dislike change so it takes something decently serious to actually halt momentum.

It’s a tiny mistake that literally has no effect at all on the over all message of the video. It’s a fun “huh” moment to realize what’s actually happening. But nothing more.

Iv never met someone I liked that smoked lucky strikes.

The right answer is,

Debian if they just use web browsers and basic office apps.

Fedora if they use do the same but also use recent hardware that needs a newer kernel

Bazzite if they are a casual gamer and you want to make sure her sims still work easily

Cachy if she’s a nerd and plays a lot of higher end games.

All with kde of course

Who even uses normal arch anymore.

All the cool kids use endeavour or cachy. Which is like calling Ubuntu, Debian.

Suggesting anything with gnome should come with a penalty of having to fist fight a Canadian goose and it’s henchswans.

To be fair I put in all my smart lights once 7 years ago haven’t touched them a single time in that entire span. Took an hour to set up.

And now my alarm turns on lights which helps me wake up :D

Basically none, if you want user friendly macro and layers your basically stuck to windows. That or your doing bullshit jank that barely works, breaks frequently and requires way too much effort for no good results.

Its one of the better examples of Linux being dog shit at being user friendly.

The most common excuse I see is it’s not safe and secure so it’s not supported. Or you need to just use an abandoned app from a random GitHub that’s 9 years old only works on x11 and requires a blood sacrifice.

Honestly at this point they actually likely need to be EVEN MORE strict to deal with how bad the app store is and how many scam apps are floating around.

My grand father has been given like 30 scam apks to install via email that we’re just crypto ransomware basically, and he’s had to reformat his phone at least 10 times this year from installing scam shit from the playstore it self too.

Both the playstore AND scammers are target android like crazy

There’s basically no way to crack down on it short of what they are doing and frankly it’s still not enough.

Anyone who thinks this is just Google being evil is massive fucking out of touch with the reality of what elderly and less it savvy people have to deal with. It fucking SUCKS.

And I fucking hate these changes too, but even I cant say it’s enough. There’s too many fucking shit bag assholes ruining all the good things.

Should have just gone back to TeamSpeak 3

Nah, it gets tricked by the first game just as easily lol

Forced arbitration tends to backfire massively when you have something of this scale because of everyone starts doing it. The cost of that forced arbitration is more than what the lawsuits would have been without it. It’s a big reason why like steam got rid of it. If you get too many people trying to go after you, it’s just not worth it and costs too much.

Any time your account gets locked for age reason it requires it. So if you have never had an age lock it’s unlikely you had to do it.

It’s as easy as someone reporting you for being underage with no proof or even just saying “I’m 14 and what is this” as a meme to get locked tho.

Hell the auto flag system can hit you if you just talk like a kid sometimes.