ChojinDSL

I've given up on multiplayer. Too many kids that apparently had relations with my mom.

You're probably just missing the corresponding firmware package.

lspci -v should show you which hardware chips your system has. Then just search the packages for any firmware packages that contain that chip's name. E.g. realtek.

If you want to REALLY get comfortable with how linux works under the hood, then Gentoo is an awesome learning tool. The amount of choices and customization options is ridiculous, from choosing which features you want to enable(compile) for an app, to choosing between bootloaders, init systems, and so on.

I haven't used Gentoo in quite a while, but I wouldn't be a professional Sysadmin today if it weren't for Gentoo.

I always buy games only on sale. My rule of thumb is: if it's around 20€ it's a no-brainer. Anything above that I only buy for games that I really really want and that stay above 20€ even when on sale.

Yep, midnight commander is hands down the best file manager I've ever used.

2 main issues with it:

Too slow for the average user. A lot less torrents available.

ChojinDSL It depends on your use case. In my case I mostly manage bare metal servers running certain services or docker.

For servers I don't want rolling releases. That just means stuff is going to break on a regular basis. In my opinion, Arch Linux is the worst offender here. I don't know if it's gotten better since last I used it. But with Arch Linux the problem was, that you had to keep up with the updates. If you forgot to update some machine in a while, it could happen that you missed some update that changed some critical things, and everything else already moved on, and the only way to fix it was to hunt down the intermediate package version and try to install that manually, or just wipe and reinstall.

As far as "ancient" tools is concerned, it depends on what those tools are. Bugfix and security patches is what I'm most interested in on a server. Just because there is a newer version of software out there with some new features, doesn't mean that I need those features, or that they're relevant.

For the cases where I need something newer, there's docker, flatpak and backports repos, (if not third party repos for certain tools).

Debian Bookworm. On my laptop and all my servers.

I'm a seasoned professional Linux sysadmin, so getting a distro installed has never been a problem for me (thanks to my first proper distro being Gentoo).

In the end, it's the stability and "knowing what to expect", that always makes me come back to Debian.

Technology is complicated. Period. Anything that "seems" simple is in reality extremely complicated underneath the hood. A GUI is nice as long as it works. But if for some reason it doesn't, you're shit out of luck.