I may not know much about software development & programming itself however, I feel like I did my part here.

+1 for Linux folks.

Smallest of crack in the glass? Flex-Seal

A space-ship that’s 60% glass, 20% stiffener bars and 20% normal space-ship stuff,

I suppose you didn’t hear about the new EULA for Take-Two/2K/Rockstar games eh?

Long story short they have explicit permission to install a root kit on your system which is a popular type of malware. If the developers knowingly install a root kit on your system and someone who is savvy enough decides to abuse it, well… let’s just say the outcome isn’t pretty for the end-user.

I love BL1 & BL2 but this is justification to put those games to rest or run them offline or in LAN, having a back door to people’s systems on any online game will backfire.

Unpopular opinion, if you’re going to use a Debian based distro you should just use Debian.

Yes, it is command-line/BASH heavy however, once you learn it it’ll make all the other Debian based distro’s even easier to manage. Only real difference is system directories are in different locations distro-to-distro.

We’re doing our part!

Why not spin up a pihole instance? Once you setup your blocklists you barely have to maintain it besides the occasional update.

Hell, if you don’t have a spare machine to run it on, you can likely run it locally and then change your PC’s network to use it as your DNS resolver.

This right here, if I can do the same to my work desktop I would be in my glory.

the 1% that don’t happen to be all the major multiplayer games people acturally want to play

Whats this suppose to mean? That 1% just tells Linux users that the developers & publishers simply don’t care enough about their product.

Linux massively beats Windows

History has been made.

I dunno, I started with Debian and then many months later learned that it was one of the harder distributions given the outdated packages.

Glad I chose Debian because Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux, PureOS, etc are all derivatives of it.

I honestly never tried Ventoy myself so I can’t really give you a proper answer to this however, after reading into it I see no reason why it wouldn’t work? So long as GParted can access the systems disks there shouldn’t be an issue.

Put a GParted ISO on a thumb drive using Rufus or BalenaEtcher, in your BIOs change the boot order so that GParted boots first, boot into GParted an then readjust/delete your partition as you need be.

Pretty straightforward for the most part.

You just said you’ve never used a Steam Deck.

Correct, have yet to touch SteamOS.

Multiple people have told you why what you’re saying is ridiculous.

How is what I said ridiculous? Is the market all of a sudden no longer Windows dominated?

I get it, SteamOS is essentially Steams Big Picture mode locked down however, the minute someone wants to mod one of their games using software made for Windows that they find on Nexus mods or Se7enSins they’ll run into issues or a novel of documentation for a workaround.

The vast majority of people don’t want to sit and troubleshoot for hours on end for a single mod, they want it to work out of the gate and that’s where SteamOS/Linux currently falls flat.

I literally have no idea what I’m talking about

Care to at all elaborate then?

Last time I checked Windows still dominates the market on personal desktop/laptop computers, most people don’t want to sit and read documentation on how to get specific software to work with their device, they just want it to work without hassle.

The Steam Deck kicked off great however, I see people flocking to the Windows alternatives like the ASUS ROG Ally because they don’t want to deal with Linux or the Bash shell.

Edit; I don’t know why this is being downvoted, I haven’t touched SteamOS so I’m comparing it to Debian 12 where BASH knowledge is essential.

i paid nearly $100 CAD for the game, and I don’t regret it.

Such a good campaign.

GTA VII when?

Does your laptop have 2 GPU’s?

NVIDIA Optimus sucks for Linux, I would suggest looking into EnvyControl and forcing your xorg & xrandr to use your NVIDIA GPU primarily and not the iGPU.

The day I do the old fashioned sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and everything suddenly breaks is when I know I’m on Debian 13.