• 1998:

I tried my first linux distro: Mandriva

• 1998 - 2020

Every year I chose a distro and spent a month with it. Mandrake was a an eye opener. Then Ubuntu was the easiest, but it was not ready for me yet.

• 2021:

Linux is now ready for work & gaming, so I switched and tried these major distros and their downstream forks:

Debian

• Ubuntu

  • Zorin
  • POP OS
  • Mint
  • Tails

• Vanilla OS

Arch

• Manjaro
• Endeavour OS
• Crystal
• BlendOS
• SteamOS

Fedora

• Fedora Workstation

• Nobara
• Fedora Silverblue

• Ublue:

• Aurora
• Bazzite

I recommend Bazzite for gamers and Aurora, for everyone else. They are as if not easier to use than a smartphone.

I use Aurora on my work laptop, and Bazzite on my gaming desktop. Both have been great with no issues.

Because it’s easier, it just works and it doesn’t nag me.

I use Bazzite, it’s been the best computing experience I had.

Ask anything you want.

2 kids here.

Avoid any challenges until you can handle the most important one. Just come back when he’s 1 y/o.

I now game with them on my Bazzite Linux desktop PC and our Steam Deck. Kids love it.

A Sims clone has to be better than the Sims and even then I wouldn’t like to play it. A mod friendly life sim engine is something I would definitely want to play.

I can already imagine a SimGine Skyrim mod being uploaded on day 1.

But I would suggest to scale it back even more, if I understood correctly, it’s still very ambitious. Make it scriptable, modular, dev & artist friendly. Well documented, treat contributors as first class.

• Life sim:

Start with the creation of something where contributors can create for example a dog entity add the a trait called thirst which has a counter that increases x% every x seconds then another contributor adds a bowl of water that replenishes the thirst meter.

• Building mode:

Start with a grid and snapping system with layering so that contributors could create the building blocks. Players could import models and assign an entity to it.

• Character creation:

Players could start by importing ready made models. The character creator could come later, or you could start with just hats. And go from there.

I run Bazzite which is immutable and rock solid stable. I use Boxbuddy which is a frontend for Distrobox to install packages from any distro when I can’t find it on brew.

BF4 has 64 players total, BFBC2 has 32 players total.

If Half Life 3 was made using Godot, things would get wild.

Use the Fork Luke!

Your choices:

• buy a new PC with Windows 11
• move to linux with your current PC
• stay with Windows 10 on your current PC, and take the risk of using an insecure system.

Bazzite ships Flathub unfiltered.

Last update (which replaced Discover with Bazaar) changed that.

so no taking a precompiled binary and shipping that.

All FLOSS apps on Flathub are built on trusted platforms by default, in the open and verifiable. Same thing with Brew.

Not including proprietary software in the default config is a valid choice every distro has to make.

The sudden success of Bazzite comes from how easy it is to use.

Does that require trust?

New to me, thank you!

Go with Bazzite, if you don’t like it, just switch. You only need to backup one folder, your /home dir.

Does that client work with a fully selfhosted server with no 3rd party relays?

Fedora Silverblue downstream distros will benefit greatly, thank you!

If you ever make a Brew package, immutable distros will tank you.

26.000 downloads on steam. 8.500 daily users (SteamDB), sounds like popular enough to me.

I hope it gets published to fdroid.

Do you mind in creating a feature request?

Done 👍🏻

That will happen when they launch Fremont (Steam console).