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I'm unfamiliar with stardew valley, but in my eyes there's no point in including a combat system at all when it is as shallow as no man's skies.

Interesting combat and pvp in such an amazing world to explore would make for an absolutely fantastic game, don't get me wrong, the exploration is great, but why not flesh out the combat at this point? they've done so much, at this point it seems like a wasted opportunity.

Wellp, I am, and if they added combat, they should at least make it interesting, what was the point of even implementing it? Currently it's just an annoyance.

When they add diverse, interesting, challenging combat, I'll try it again.

Aaaand it broke all xwayland games mouse placement with multiple monitors...

https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/9214

it feels like two steps forward one step back with every hyprland update.

An immutable distro that uses flatpak is a must for this usecase, IMO

Openworm

Immortal gates of pyre.

a bunch of the best starcraft II modders got together and made a spiritual successor to sc2 with books upon books of lore, entire functioning languages, an incredible UX, the best rts gameplay i've ever experienced, and all they need is fucking funding. ugh.

Though I occasionally really get support requests for old printers, scanners and whatever people have around.

These work fine on immutable distros if they work on normal distros, for fedora atomic you can install just about anything with rpm-ostree, in these cases, i just send them a message with the command for the thing they need to install.

Or they have their accustomed workflow and they don’t really want to change a lot and also migrate their data to several different programs…

If they're completely unwilling to do this, linux is probably not a good idea for them in the first place, tbh.

I think one thing won’t change though and that is the big selling point of Linux having a big package repository. That just has a lot of advantages, also for the beginners. And the maintainers invest a lot of time so everything works smoothly. And it makes it stupidly easy to do a lot of things.

You can install any normal packages in fedora kinoite/bazzite, actually, because of rpm-ostree, this isn't really a disadvantage of immutable distros, and in fact, the largest, most up to date distro is nixos, which is immutable too!

I mean ultimately the details don’t matter. My mom doesn’t need the latest Firefox or some specific operating system design. She just needs something that gets the job done and is maintainable and maybe not a hassle to operate and maintain…

Precisely why I recommend immutability, things being absolutely rock solid, and easily being able to rollback mean there's no downtime where things are just broken.

The downsides are all for hardcore users, in my experience.

They often have to follow special procedures, learn about the differences and it’s just a steep learning curve.

I think you overestimate how different the procedures really are, honestly, I think you'd need to give a set of situations in which this would happen and really think about how different it is. The vast majority of usecases are just open the app store to install stuff and use the browser. Most people won't run into anything that needs special procedures.

I've been giving people immutable linux for a while and this has actually been a complete non-issue, the closest thing to a problem was telling them to use rpm-ostree instead of the normal linux fedora commands, but that's only if they need to use the CLI for something, which is extremely rare on bazzite. This has only happened once and it was to install keyd.

Plus we have a few issues with Flatpaks, like themes not applying and Linux looks like it’s stuck in the early 2000s when all your desktop is in dark mode and one application will be bright white with completely different look. Or the password manager not working due to the sandboxing of the browser Flatpak…

I recommend people use bitwarden, there's a firefox extension so this is a complete non-issue for people I help.

As for the themes, most people just use the default breeze in bazzite, themes being weird has also not been something i've seen there, your information may be out of date. Maybe if they're trying out weird custom themes, sure, but again, most people just stick to the default and this is a non-issue. I consider this a feature only really necessary for advanced users.

All of those issues add up and they’re not trivial to solve. And kind of unnecessary in my opinion.

I think this might've been true a few years ago, things have progressed. The benefits of never having a linus tech tips moment where your entire desktop is destroyed because of a simple package management mistake is much more massive than you realize.

I think that’s what beginners want instead of pulling Flatpaks directly from upstream, whatever that project does behind the scenes.h

Beginners don't care where their packages come from, they want a system that's rock solid and "just works". You might want that as an advanced user, sure, but I don't think you know what being a beginner is like anymore. I encourage people who care to step out of their comfort zone, but they haven't even once since i started recommending fedora kinoite/bazzite.

I’m really not sure if I want to recommend immutable distros to beginners at this point. They’re a valid thing, but come with downsides. But I’m willing to have a closer look. I’ve yet to try most of them, including the one you mentioned.

I would've completely agreed with this a few years ago. I don't think you're up to date honestly!

Always happy to help!

I really think we need to stop recommending mint to beginners, not because mint isn't great, but because immutability is extremely important for beginners.

I really do hope they release an immutable mint variant at some point, but until then, bazzite is my top pick for beginners.

If you have any trouble, I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to do infinite support help on matrix, feel free to ask and I can give you a complete rundown and answer any questions you have about any distro.

I highly recommend going with an immutable distribution, such as bazzite, you'll also probably want KDE like you said, which is the desktop environment

You can think of it this way:

the distribution is a separate app store, which app store you have determines what apps are available (apps are called packages in linux, essentially, so, we call the management of these package management)

Fedora is an app store that prioritizes being quick to release new software versions, but also, being a little bit behind to check for bugs

Arch is an app store that doesn't care about being user-friendly, and wants to ship the most up to date stuff, and expects you to do everything yourself.

Debian is an app store that's super slow and prioritizes not missing ANY bugs at all costs, they'll wait years before they update software.

But note that these app stores have nothing to do with the thing you interact with, which is the desktop environment:

for desktop environments, there's KDE, which is basically just the closest thing to windows, but much more customizable, they give you as many ways to do things as is comfortable

Gnome is like macos, they think there should only be one way to do things, and they want you to do things their way, for the sake of user-friendliness and minimizing surface area for mistakes.

I wouldn't worry about the other desktop environments unless you're experienced.

Now, immutability is extremely important for new users, immutability means that there's a core system that's separate from the things you install, essentially. So, you can't fundamentally break things without trying really hard, as a new user you might uninstall something and it turns out it's important for your desktop to work and you're stuck in a command line. You don't want that. (this famously happened to linus tech tips)

Feel free to ask for more help or message me on matrix for whatever you need.

https://bazzite.gg/

^^this is a KDE fedora immutable distribution that i highly recommend, there's also fedora kinoite, but I recommend this over it, because there's some patent issues with fedora since they're a US-based company, and as a result twitch.tv and some other things don't work out of the box. Bazzite just fixes that, along with some other things for user friendliness.