I also had kde neon and switched to kubuntu. Its really nice and only has minor issues. I also tried opensuse beforehand, which was not a good experience, for example the sound did not work (which is a typical probl, at least says their wiki and the fixes were obsolete, but not documented that they were.) and as a final straw, YouTube video played without hw acceleration, even with codecs installed.
I had less problems with endeavour os (arch), which runs on a second rig as a steamdeck.
Not a good advice. A friend of mine is still on win7 and it still works and got security updates time to time. But some programs actually stopped working or only older lts versions remain workings. Win10 is probably still ok for a year or two.
I remember how impressive that was as a kid, when i played ridge racer on psx the first time.
I installed arch with steam and gamescope. Its just like the steamdeck as a pc. You already can have this right now.
I still wonder what the difference made. I would image, it should be the same.
Did you try lutris out of flatpak? I don’t know why but this version has less issues. I compared lutris vs bottles and for me the performance of bottles was way worse. (Sadly). Because the bottles ui is much better
Do you know what the issue was? Iam on kubuntu with the flatpak version (important) of lutris and battle.net + sc2 just runs out of the box. With a normal installation of lutris it didn’t.
The most important setting for me, was to set the enemies as passive. So you can kill them off when you need place and they will never attack you on their own.
Factorio. The new dlc hooked me into a 5h gaming session at one eve. I cant remember when i did that the last time in my life. Probably with 15? But be warned, the game isn’t called cracktorio without reason.
For me the same, but with kubuntu. Linux is really ready to be used as a desktop.
Just go for it! Did it recently and the overall experience is actually getting impressed multiple times.
Sounds nice, how useable is it?
Or he could try a arch distro like manjaro.
Or just use Firefox with ublock?
Yeah for sure it is cheaper, if they only have to pay the operational costs. Not the ones of building and decomissioning the plant. Lol.
Cracktorio