Even though I don’t have much interest in the Steam Deck itself, seeing the quick progress of Proton and games I regularly play working on the Deck is what got me to seriously consider Linux and finally switch my desktop over.

Been daily driving EndeavourOS for over a month now and no regrets.

Corpo’s and social media “designers” who would throw out their own mother because she’s “outdated”

Honestly as someone who doesn’t use Gnome… I can’t really tell much of a difference, Seems like a strange thing to build hype over.

So my first exposure to Arch was from my one friend who used Arch Linux daily, He was also the type to mess around with and replace core system utilities which of course led to his system breaking a whole bunch.

I avoided using Arch based distros for a while when I first started getting into Linux because of seeing my friend have to rebuild his system every week, When I finally tried EndeavourOS it ended up being the most stable distro out of the box even vs a lot of “just works” distros people recommended.

I’ve finally been able to daily drive Linux for over a month without having to switch back to my Windows drive at all.

The main problem with all this is the average user doesn’t know or even care what DRM is, they just want their sites to work and they’ll take the easiest route to get there, which will be switching to google approved browsers/devices.

I’d argue even most “techy” people will just give up any real fight once they can’t watch Youtube anymore.

I’m using SDDM which I know supports lunching Wayland because I’m had it work in virtual machines before.

Alright so after seeing your comment I decided to give it another try.

I’m running Plasma 5.27.7 which is what came when I installed when I grabbed EndeavourOS. But it doesn’t come with the Wayland session included so I grabbed plasma-wayland-session from the AUR, And same issue as last time I can’t launch it from the login screen.

I know people have gotten it working fine but on my hardware for whatever reason I’ve had little luck.

Yeah Wayland support apparently doesn’t come shipped with the KDE install on EndeavourOS, Last time to tried to get it running was on an older version of Ubuntu a few months back.

I’ll install it and try it out now tho thanks.

When I tried Wayland on Gnome using my RTX3080 it either wouldn’t load into desktop or if I did it would lead to a bunch of visual glitches.

Haven’t tried it through KDE yet tho as it requires some backend hackery to even allow you enable Wayland with an Nvidia card.

Edit: So some people have been able to get Wayland working on Nvidia fine so it’s worth trying out yourself, Tho I’ve personally not had any luck.

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Thug Pro for Tony Hawk’s Underground 2.

Plutonium for multiple older Call of Duty games.

IW4x for Modern Warfare 2 (2009), IW4x was DMCA’d semi recently but the mod still works, it’s just no longer being maintained and the server browser has a few bugs.

Even for games I’ve bought off Steam I still use community run multiplayer mods a lot because they tend to either add more functionality or replace dead servers for older games.

I dunno why I didn’t jump on the KDE train sooner, I think it’s default setup is already a better user experience than Windows 10/11, and doesn’t feel like I’m fighting against the desktop like with Gnome.

The ease of tweaking even small things I really appreciate. Feels like an actual upgrade in the UI/UX space from what I’ve been used to from years of hacking together tweaks and programs on other desktops.

I think it’s mostly just the elitists trying to scare people to feel superior.

Linux newbie with a tendency to break everything throwing in my recommendation for Endeavour

I was warned by a bunch of people that an Arch based system is no place for a new comer but it’s surprising been WAY more stable than my time with Pop!_OS.

To all the people who didn’t see the point in moving away from Chromium browsers, THIS IS THE POINT!

I’d like to throw in Youtube Redux.

It’s main function is to restore the older desktop look/feel of pre 2016ish Youtube, but it’s insanely customizable and good for cutting down on random buttons or features you don’t care about.

Only downside is it’s being maintained by one guy and it’s abit slow to be updated sometimes.