The Halo series is one I’ll probably never give up, but I suppose I’m currently on a hiatus.

To judge my friends, of course.

This site puts my lowest cost estimate at ~$400 USD. Out of curiosity, I then went through my purchase history and added everything up, which came out to ~$1,000 USD. The average was ~$14 and the median was ~$10.

Watch Dogs 2. I’ve barely touched the story and just mess around.

It’s not just 12 year old kids either; this is how most people in the console market make their decisions. They prioritize the availability of games on the console over the hardware’s specifications and operating system.

I think Clipperz is. Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong.

Good luck finishing it up and redoing that level on CE! Note that the pelican (pictured in this post) is the vehicle that is typically used to transport marines. You were driving a falcon.

There is an easter egg on that level that lets you drive a pelican, though!

Halo 2 on Legendary is a pain. I know you said in your OP you thought you might as well have done LASO, but that is 1000x worse, trust me.

I can carry you through the level sometime, if you want. I’ll test the invulnerability glitch on co-op at some point and see how well it works. My guess is it won’t work due to co-op teleporting.

Everybody I know who has a folding-screen has a giant crease down the middle of it.

You can make yourself invulnerable on the Oracle level (at least for the last fourth or so of it) by activating the lift to the room where you cut the cables while off the lift, then activating it again so it comes back down, and letting it squish you. It’ll yeet you to the top of the lift and you’ll be invulnerable for the rest of the level. I don’t know how well it works in co-op though.

It was a glitch that originated in the Halo 2 Vista port and carried over to the MCC since they based it off the Vista port.

I don’t agree with the first half. I’ve upvoted comments mentioning Debian because it’s the one I would recommend, but it’s not my favorite and none of my daily drivers use it.

However, I agree with the second half. OP seems to be avoiding actually fixing the issue and is hoping that rolling the dice on another distro will fix at least the USB issue. Fixing the issue on OpenSUSE will likely guide them to learn something helpful along the way and they won’t need to re-setup everything else.

I don’t know if it’s more resource-efficient, but when I wanted to start using VMs for work, I knew VirtualBox would not be a viable choice (thanks to Oracle and their horrible licensing), so I chose GNOME Boxes and have been pretty happy with it. I didn’t do any tests so I can’t say for certain , but it doesn’t seem like the resource consumption is that much different.

Sometimes I think I should revisit BioShock. When I played it over a decade ago, I did so on the Xbox 360 because my PC would’ve probably played it at around 15 FPS. I recall the game not feeling optimized for the console, felt tired of the game at the end, and that its gameplay was overall tedious. I wish I enjoyed it like everybody else.

It looks like the number of people who RuneScape (3?) is less than that, but OSRS seems to have a healthy population.

https://www.misplaceditems.com/rs_tools/graph/

Because they make a lot of money.

Would you be happier if it were paid DLC? It’s more fitting as a mod anyway, since the whole thing was very on-the-rails.

You’re right about that, but that doesn’t address the main concerns I made in my post.

Listen, I love my Steam Deck, but it isn’t a reasonable replacement for heavy Switch users, like this guy and his family. It’s not exactly a high-spec’d machine and as a result, in my experience, none of the Switch games play at their original FPS on the Deck. Some are so bad that they are unplayable. Online play is going to be, at best, limited and far more difficult to manage. Heck, setting it up in general for kids that probably just want to play the damn games is going to be more annoying. The worst part would be listening to, “Dad, why can’t we just buy a Switch?” a thousand times.

I don’t use my Steam Deck as a work machine, but I’ve also found getting external displays to be a bit of a chore. I’ve never gotten the DP to work and the HDMI is hit or miss.

That being said, the external display ports work more consistently with other hardware, like my laptop, so I think the issue lies with the Steam Deck.