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Aurora Chrysalis
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Woke Linux gamer. (He/him)

Free from Meta, Micro$oft, Amazon, Alphabet(G) and Apple.
Brave also has a history of injecting affiliate links into the URL.

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Stop using Brave Browser
Seriously.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Just on time.
September 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Already boycotted all the big-tech ones.
September 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A more secure Android OS without any of the Google stuff. Even if you need it, it will be sandboxed with minimal permissions.

grapheneos.org
GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS
GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
grapheneos.org
September 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Can't wait to get a platinum on Hades 2 as well.

In the name of Hades, I accept this challenge.
September 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Hopefully, I'll finish the alternate endings of Silksong including Act 3 and be ready by then.

I already played like 30 hours of Hades 2 when the game first launched in Early Access. Guess that gives me a headstart.
September 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If you're going the Arch route, try CachyOS, which bundles everything and makes the installation much easier.
September 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you're able to OEM-unlock your phone, you may install Graphene on it.

Only works on Pixel devices. (For now)
September 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Good choice, and good luck.

Nobara's discord community is very active and friendly.
They'd help you out if needed.
September 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The first boss fight is incredibly hard.
- i.e. getting to Steam's payment page.

Been here for 2 hours now. *sigh*
September 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fair enough.

Meanwhile, you can dual boot if you have a separate drive.
And try alternatives if they exist for your programs, and also try running the same Windows program on container/WINE/Virtual Machine.

Only if you have time.
You can slowly transition in time if your use-case allows you to.
September 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A lot of people are switching to Mint already.

If you want better UI scaling and HDR/VRR support, Fedora's derivatives like Bazzite/Nobara can help. Apps can be installed through App store using Flatpak. And you pretty much don't need to use terminal/console at all.
September 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
UI scaling works much better on Wayland.
Mint has experimental wayland support, but wasn't great the last time I tried it.
Besides HDR/VRR won't work on X11.

In your case, try a Wayland supporting distro like Fedora or its derivatives or even Arch-based CachyOS.
Your UI issues should be gone.
September 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Fedora's initial setup for Nvidia and codecs ain't bad in practice.

2 Repos from RPM Fusion: free and non-free have to installed. Can be done graphically using Store.
Then:

sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia nvidia-vaapi-driver libva-utils vdpauinfo steam

sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg –allowerasing
September 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It's 2 hours 40 minutes from now.

*Controls my heart beat*
September 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Not sure about ROG Ally, but SteamOS seems to do better than Windows on Legion Go.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp...
Windows Was The Problem All Along
YouTube video by Dave2D
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM