Don’t defile your beautiful installation with trash like flatpak. It’s probably not the Steam installation.

And that level is SUN

Nowadays it’s super simple, with Lutris or another launcher. But you can still make Steam launch those too, with Proton.

I’ve been gaming on Arch (btw) since 2013 and only had minor issues I could resolve with a bit of googling.

Things have only gotten better over the years. Steam will just work on pretty much any distro as it has its own runtime.

Just use Xorg. Wayland is notorious for Nvidia issues.

One in a while there is an issue with CS2 for me too, but it’s usually because of fullscreen/windowed mode and the window manager being aggressive. Try turning it off/on with launch parameters.

What data do they share beyond the stuff you told them they can share?

You’re right, that is reasonable

How could they know the actual user count? All they can see is number of downloads, right?

Depends on the environment. For enterprise, it’s shit because there’s no support. For home it’s shit because I want software from this decade.

I would never recommend Debian for an end-user OS. Probably not even for a server, unless you’re somehow infatuated with the worst package management suite there is.

Everyone keeps saying “it’s stable” like all the other distros are not. Debian is just behind.

And there’s even more people who don’t understand the dangers. Install the wrong APK or click a fishy link, and your device can be completely fucked without you ever knowing. That’s why the AOSP has worked so hard on isolation and ACL.

Cats have a completely different language when interacting with humans. They mostly just meow around us

In my experience it’s very optional

I always just used custom ROMs without root

What do you need root for these days??

Neither of these were abandoned

Of course it’s his choice, it’s his system.

The general advice is that handpicking updates from main repos is a big no-no. There are only a couple of reasons you would ever need that, like updating archlinux-keyring on a very outdated system.

Even on my 13 year old install with many thousands of packages, it’s not hard to spot if anything is out of the ordinary when doing huge upgrades. You should pay attention.

That being said, I often just do pacman -Syu --noconfirm && poweroff these days. It’s so rare that anything breaks and I can very easily fix it if it does.

Just look at their principles.

If your upgrade says anything out of the ordinary, which it most definitely did here, that should probably trigger something in you. This is the case for any distro.

Same, my desktop PC had Arch installed in 2012 lol