The only one of those that I’ve tried is cyberpunk, but besides being a really good and fun game for what you’re looking for, I want to add that I found it easy to get off or back on, which you might want

I recently switched to it because I wanted to finally have a good try at wayland with a distro made for it, and wow was I blown away, cachy is the closest I’ve ever been to a “it just works” OS (including every windows version I’ve used, from 98 up to 10), just a couple hardware specific issues that I have fixed (except for one). I also really like plasma, I’m mot committed to it but it was nice to come back to it after using mint for a while. I still wouldn’t recommend it to a newcomer but damn, it’s good.

Are there dedicated desktop wireless headsets with noticeable latency? My shitty hyperx cloud flight have no noticeable latency and I even played around with some audio settings (on linux, windows audio drivers are very limited) and got it to the point where I could use them to monitor my usb mic in real time (which, for anyone who knows, is a very latency sensitive use case).

Afaik the latency thing is a problem with bluetooth.

I Have a hyperx cloud flight (the first ones), very light, in arch based distros the range is pretty big (in mint and pop, for whatever reason, the range is abysmal), they work with no caveats on linux (though no battery report, there’s a script or two floating on the internet to have it with no hassle). I’m sure there are better options these days (better battery and sound quality), but these are the ones I have experience with.

They’re not my first choice in audio, but they did so much for me when I had my kid, you can drop in and out of your pc without needing to remove your headphones, they don’t block much so you can even listen to the baby crying if you’re at a low volume (or you can just have one ear out), you can hang out in calls while holding the bb, etc.

For any new parents out there, can’t tell you how much they did for me, in particular the combination of

• being for PC (no latency, being able to get in and out of your gaming sessions or whatever you do without even having to take them off)
• having a decent quality microphone next to your mouth (you don’t need to raise your voice and can be heard easily despite background noise, good signal to noise ratio)
• not being that good at blocking sound, this is crucial when you can’t compromise your full attention but can have most of it.
• being light weight (I know there are some wireless headphones that are bulky and not that light).

• A udev rule that won’t work in my new distro (cachyos) for no apparent reason when it worked fine everywhere else

• Obs using way too much cpu for no reason even in a clean setup at idle

• Having to select what window will be captured to the obs canvas every time

• Having to swap active audio outputs until volume stops being too low at every restart.

That’s about all of it, I think.

I assume that you’re thinking of recent infantry-oriented first-person-shooter stuff.

I misread “stuff” as 💩 and was already reaching for my popcorn.

I get what you meant, I was just making a little joke, though I feel like there’s a huge difference between shitty ui that can’t be bypassed and reasonable ui that still can’t be bypassed. The latter is usually managable and tolerable.

I personally prefer having both options but in general I go with a UI.

otherwise you end up with windows

Windows without the garbage? I’m okay with that.

Have seen similar comments on that specifically on mint before, does mint have a particular problem with it? I used timeshift to restore manjaro a couple of times and it was very confusing but I assumed it was just me.

Thanks, I have my important files manually backed up every now and then on two different drives in my desktop, this idea is part of moving away from stressing so much and I’m probably going to abandon the raid idea for the near future and instead do scheduled backups (and maybe checkups?). I’ll keep in mind all that stuff about temps too when I do get an oportunity to make a suitable raid array build (without individual usb controllers between the drives and the server).

I have checked my data recently, haven’t found any issues. I appreciate all the info and help!

Didn’t know about this, it is at 8 GB of ddr3, couldn’t find a bigger stick and it doesn’t have more than one slot. I’m updating the post to address other responses. Thanks

Haha I see what you mean, I meant as in changing from one to another, not using snail drives for a swap partition.

I did test it on manjaro kde, not exactly the same, last test run seemed fine in everything but some games and having to select the game each time on obs, I was actually preferring it over x11 if not for some problems

You’re inserting blame on Wayland that wasn’t there.

I am yet to have a successful testrun of wayland, closest I’ve had was everything seemed to work fine but some games would straight up not work. I’m sure it would be just fine if I installed a distro that had it by default but at that point it’s way beyond the convenience I’ve heard so much about.

Not exactly, mine is kinda borked because of the browser, it performs like crap, something to do with Nvidia drivers, I think, I’m not bothered with choppy scrolling but choppy video and super laggy overlay and big picture are annoying as hell.

I had the same problem in manjaro plasma kde as I have in mint cinnamon.

That would be terrible in the long run, they said it would be competitive with pc pricing, not consoles (it’s a pc after all), so it would just be used as precedent to skyrocket console prices

It’s no the prettiest out there but it’s not ugly at all, there’s no place for violence since you don’t even see any other character outside of emails

What age range? I’ve seen “house flipper” give great results, I think in general those simulator games that give the dopamine hit of completing tasks are good incentives, especially chill games (nothing time based, let them take their time). I’ve found something like “a little to the left” is not actually great for that, it requires precision and an eye for pattern recognition that just causes frustration when you think you got it but nothing happens.