That may be the reason. I play the GoG version on Linux and it’s great.

I have never encountered the bugs you describe. Maybe you got a bad version?

This is one of the games that I always keep installed. Just chilling, gliding around, trying to climb higher and higher. Love it.

Sorry, I don’t have VR gear.

I’ve been running Steam as a Flatpak for a long time, it works just fine regardless of the underlying distro. Don’t panic.

smaller pool of desktop users

There, I fixed it for you.

This is about desktop Linux, so I was wrong to correct you. My bad.

Another vote for PiHole. It keeps your home network cleaner by ignoring the ads.

Terminator is my weapon of choice. Supports tabs, multiple terminals per tab, multiple terminal input and a lot of other neat stuff.

The Halo series.

I like shooters, so I got the full bundle and I tried hard to like it.

None of the games gave me a lasting impression. The plot didn’t stick with me, the enemies were weird, the guns felt weak and flimsy, the rooms kept repeating in some sections and it got very boring. There were some fun bits with the vehicles, etc., but overall the experience was… pretty much average.

I was expecting something like the Half-Life series, but this wasn’t it.

My Manjaro desktop already migrated.

I decided to install Plasma next to XFCE to see if I liked it. Then I thought I might as well try Wayland too.

Turns out the combo works great, even with games and Steam, so I’m quite happy with it.

Well, for starters, games are going to get more expensive.

That is their prerogative. Mine is not buying overpriced games.

Oh no, my desktop is fried!

1. Create a new user.
2. Login as new user.
3. Copy your old files over.
5. Profit.

I always treat the system as discardable and only backup the /home and /etc directories. Saving those, I can afford to wipe the system and re-settle on a new distro if I want to.

Of course if you throw Windows into the mix, all bets are off. Personally, I stay the hell away from that.

Mark it as an achievement on your learning path and move on. We all did something silly like that at some point.

Great that you have backups, get a fresh install and restore it.

Lessons learned: don’t work as root unless you absolutely positively have a good reason to do so.

You will find unhelpful people in any group of people. Linux community is not special in that regard.

Now that you put it like that, I think what puts me off is all the melee and glory kills. Not my cup of tea. I need my social distancing from hellspawn. That, and the puny amounts of ammo. When I play a boomer shooter, I want to shoot. If I wanted melee, I’d play Mortal Kombat or something.

Manjaro seems to be a word that gets you down voted pretty quickly.

I’ve been using it for years with few issues, but then I’m not using AUR.

I also use EndeavorOS, Xubuntu, Debian in other machines. One thing that annoys me about EndeavorOS is that using a graphical package manager is not recommended but I’ve grown to like using those.

Different tastes.

The simplicity, artwork and playability appeals to me.

Finally installed Doom 2016. It’s nice, but the gameplay is not clicking with me.

I’ve sunk nearly 800 hours on it.

Good luck.