DarkThoughts

Eh. Obviously not great and of course it will get worse but a scale from 5.2 to 5.6 is bound to look extreme in either direction.

Not sure where you got this from, but Proton, GE or not, has always been meant to be used within a Steam environment first and foremost.

I switched some years ago away from 7 when 10 came out and the “free” upgrade nuked itself and its partition into an unrecoverable state. Windows and Linux can both be their own hassle in different ways, but at least with Linux I got control back over my operating system, and that felt so damn good.

IIRC China is supposedly atheist, and so was the Soviet Union, but things were not particularly rosy there either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_the_Soviet_Union

Whether religion or not, it’s often a case of despicable hardliners taking charge and making things worse for pretty much everyone but them.

Again: Who else? The rest of the world is in varying degrees of “ass backwards”, especially regarding social issues. Hell, a lot of them aren’t even moving forward but backward.

Non religious conservatism is a thing. Those countries also tend to be much worse on women’s rights too.

Why? Who else would come before that? Europe & North America are the most progressive places on Earth for quite a while now.

If your Deck connects to everything but your home connection, then yeah, it’s very likely your router being the issue here. Assuming you did not have any config changes or firmware updates there then it may be dying, but I’d at least check the settings for some clues, maybe change the wifi frequency if it is fixed.

Not sure when the last time was exactly, a couple years ago maybe. Until it refused to work without updating it, and the update of course caused it to not work anymore and also nuke all my Skyrim mods with it.

My main gripe with it is how confusing and unintuitive it is though. So even if I were to go through the bother of trying to get it running on Linux again, I’d have to first know that it would’ve improved on that front. But with the new app coming and MO2 running much better and being much more intuitive, I don’t really see the point.

There’s r2modman for a lot of games, which is a native Linux mod manager using the Thunderstore for its mods. There’s also ModOrganizer2 which can work somewhat okayish on Linux but Protontricks, which is a dependency, is currently a sore spot. https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer

Hopefully it is not as unintuitive and confusing as Vortex. That was probably the absolute worst mod manager I have ever used. But we definitely do need some Linux compatible mod manager for Bethesda games (r2modman covers a lot of other ones already).

I don’t know where they manufacture but from what I could find Hori is a Japanese company.

Yeah, underwhelming. But at least not Chinese.

That depends on what they bought the Deck for. Not everyone has much of an interest in playing games that require the trackpads, so there’s still a big market for handhelds that cover the rest.

I could do without the trackpads but everything else I agree on.