Hey there fa/g/s.

Dropping a situation report here after attempting to swap main partition to Linux for the last 2 months.

I tried CachyOS, but the default driver that loaded my keyboard would repeatedly create this insane tab spam for nearly all applications. I attempted to interact with drivers, but by and large the process went nowhere.

Attempt #2 was bazzite. I was encouraged by the fact that there was a questionnaire about what kind of machine I was running. I was effectively able to use most steam games and really only had a problem with lutris for getting Windows applications running however the KDE plasma login screen repeatedly hung on the secondary user and configuration was a big pain from a permission standpoint. (Installing games across users, etc) required a lot of research and while I am patient when dealing with these issues, it wasn't immediately wiki-able as many of these issues didn't come with an error code.

For example, VLC media player couldn't seem to bridge the gap onto a Chromecast, and the peak problem I had was that there wasn't any effective error handling that solved this problem. Same thing with regular Google chrome, couldn't cast.

I can handle or ignore some of these problems, but a lot of platforms have hard gated me from using them. Most competitive multiplayer games I frequented became unplayable.

I believe that gaming on Linux has definitely come far, but it's driven the other members of my household up a wall and I can't play tech support while I'm at work when things break (and they did, a lot.)

I'll probably just use arch on a laptop and work on refining the process before trying to push it on the rest of the house.