My grandmother owned a PS1 which was the first console I ever played on as a kid.

But it was also the last console she ever owned and she said it was because of the move to thumbsticks made her gave up on gaming. Kinda sad…

Honestly the skill level for Arch is kinda overblown nowadays.

You can use Archinstall and get a full desktop and a pretty hands off experience if you don’t go around tweaking any lower level system stuff.

And if you’re extra lazy (like me) Endeavour or Cachy makes the minimal setup even more streamlined with good default settings. But you still get the AUR and fast updates, which I assume it what the average user wants more than complete control over how their system is setup.

Social media turning every hobby into a “hustle”

“Retro, Vintage” old stuff in general is trendy right now. And people saw this and bought up as much cheap stock as they could and raised the prices to insane levels because all the cheap stock is now own by them…

That’s a very oversimplified explanation but it’s affected more than just retro consoles.

Minimal requirements for Linux: Linux Kernal (optional)

Overall the Linux build tends to run better than Windows.

There’s a few edge cases were some games run well under DirectX mode but not Vulkan, which mean they also won’t work well on the Linux build.

I’m using 32GB of Corsair DDR4 I got back in 2016. Think I can safely say I got my moneys worth already and still intend to ride it into 2030 at this rate.

Ngl I only played the PS4 for about a month to play Bloodborne before I gave it to my brother. I just kept one of the controllers.

I mainly played on PS3 for years from release and that was never a thing…

The console got plenty of updates but never the controller.

I have NEVER heard of any controller before this current generation needing firmware upgrades.

Even the launch model PS4 controller I use on my PC never asked for an update and still works fine…

I use LibreWolf but tell most people to use Waterfox since it’s just Firefox without Mozilla’s crap.

I actually get forced to use a Chromebook at my current job but it doesn’t really change anything since all our software is “in the cloud” accessed through Chrome.

I like to live life dangerously. It’s only bit me in the ass twice in 3 years.

EndeavourOS btw.

Am I the only weirdo who updates their system when they’re about to log off for the night?

Then again I also only update like once a week…sometimes every 2 weeks if I forget.

Same goes if you’re running Firefox.

I once had Hotmail take forever to get past the loading screen, then actually navigating my mail was hellishly slow. Switched my user agent to Edge and “magically” it loaded instantly and everything was snappy…

Had a few other sites do similar slowdowns but that and Youtube were the most unashamedly blatant.

If you ever talk to someone who’s worked in a place offering data recovery. They’ve probably met a lot of people who’ve gone through exactly that.

A surprising amount of people have put up this mental wall separating “SteamOS” from Linux.

I’ve had this conversation with multiple people and it’s being brought up again because of the Steam Machine announcement.

Some (very few) legitimately didn’t know SteamOS was a Linux distro, Or they knew it was based on Linux but thought it used a whole different user ecosystem. Like how Android is technically Linux but using it is nothing like using desktop Linux. These people I’ve found are more willing to actually look into Linux after someone’s explained to them that SteamOS is just Linux. And that there’s even SteamOS-like Linux distros you can use right now!

Then you have those who are hard-line about having Official SteamOS. And most of the time they have some misguided believe along the line of, SteamOS is Linux but Valve has fixed all the “Linux issues”. And for a lot of them you’re probably not going to get far convincing them that mainline Linux isn’t just endless command lines these days.

not wanting to go through the process of backing up files

This was a big thing when I was helping some people with Windows 10s EOL, A lot of folks just don’t have a 2nd drive to back stuff up onto.

As a compulsive data-hoarder the idea of having everything on a single drive with no backup plan, local or “cloud” based… Terrifying! You could write a horror movie about it.

As if half the games on the Steam store weren’t repacks of mobile shovelware anyway.