Okami

But there’s no sense crying after every mistake.

You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake.

My last foray into Linux gaming was back in the early-2010s, and I was mostly just trying to get EVE Online to run unsuccessfully. I was running a laptop that was top if the line (in 2009) and my PCs were cobbled together from old Dells and HPs donated by family and friends or retired and given away by my company IT team.

Steam on Linux was nice, and would show you which games in your library had Linux native versions to install. I held out on that and browser gamed for a while. Played a lot of Runescape and Minecraft. Taught myself to code a bit, but didn’t really get anywhere with that.

Eventually I had money and time to put together a “proper” gaming PC, and of course I put Windows on it since I wanted to get an NVidia graphics card as I’d had so much trouble with the AMD drivers on my laptop.

Ran Windows for gaming and kept Linux on the laptop since then. First PC ran Win7, which i loved. Next one ran Win 8, which I hated. Current one was running Win 10, which was meh, and I’ve only soured on it over time. Made the switch back to Linux last week after I got tired of M$ constantly asking me if I want to try Copilot on /both/ my work and personal PCs.

Proton is fucking great. Never going back. The old laptop is still running strong after 15 years. It’s got BunsenLabs installed at the moment.

Saving for reference. You’ve got a good thing going here. I need to steal some of your ideas for my own collection.

I have three categories:

• Completed
• In Progress
• Uncategorized

They go into In Progress when they’re installed.

They go into completed when I’ve finished them. Either 100% achievements or completed to my own satisfaction if no achievements.

If I lose interest and uninstall they drop back into Uncategorized until I’m ready to pick them up again.

I use it daily for connecting it to my car stereo, and about once a month when I mow my lawn or have to fly on a plane. I’ll never buy a phone without one.

I prefer wired headphones. I don’t want to worry about keeping them charged, and the few pairs of wireless headphones I have tried died or had the buttons stop working after a few uses from getting waterlogged with sweat, while I’ve been using the same pair of $6 wired headphones for 10 years without issues.

I don’t care for Bluetooth or USB audio connections as they don’t always work intuitively, they might take multiple button presses to set up, and every manufacturer seems to think they need to be set up in a slightly different way, while the auxiliary audio cable just works with no setup.

I heard they quietly dropped that as their motto several years ago.

Looks interesting. Hadn’t run across it before. Will definitely check it out.

Switching to Linux. Undecided what distro, but BunsenLabs has been my go-to light distro since #! (CrunchBang) died and Mint Debian Edition is also looking tempting.

Proton is good enough now that my entire argument for sticking with Windows has collapsed. I have no need for Windows anymore.

I’ve already been test-driving distros on my laptop. Still deciding whether to stick with Win10 on my desktop until I put another PC together, or go ahead and make the jump now.