HouseWolf

I'm gonna hope it's a troll.

But some people are really weird about "owning" games. The other day I was in a call with someone who spend hours hunting through dodgy key selling sites to buy a delisted Steam game at nearly twice the price...

And yes I told them where else they could get it but they cared more about having the game appear on their Steam list than actually playing it.

One of my Aussie mates has a theory them not getting the Steamdeck is payback for the Australian Government forcing Valve to offer refunds.

It's also near impossible to get real controllers here in the UK.

PS3 controllers still remain my favourite but had to switch to using a PS4 pad after getting scammed at multiple places.

I used to use ArcMenu back when I ran Gnome on PopOS and I remember you could switch the layout between a lot of different menu styles.

Wasn't just the Win7 style one.

If you don't already know what desktop you're going to use I'd suggest KDE Plasma. It's pretty close to Windows out of the box, and as another comment pointed out there's Tiled menu for it which is basically a clone of Win10s menu.

AUR or flatpak.

Honestly the longer I spend daily driving Linux the more I enjoy using flatpaks...

Also the Steamdeck has games worth playing.

If I was forced at gun point to switch back to console gaming I'd pick the latest Xbox just because of the backwards compatibility.

I'm looking at it right now and it has two tabs for FTB Legacy and FTB App Import.

You can just download the offical Minecraft launcher for Linux but do yourself a favor and grab Prismlauncher. Even on Windows it's just overall better.

If I recall correctly Linux Mint has flatpak support out of the box so you should be able to download it from the flathub link on the offical Prismlauncher site.

I've seen quite a few people rocking NixOS with Hyperland. And I thought the whole idea of Nix was to be more stable than most rolling releases?

I don't use either so I'm far from an expert on this.

Funnily the first time I tried Linux on my desktop was because I wanted to play BF4 but the EA App refused to launch on Windows 10 even after restarting/reinstalling everything.

I slapped Pop_OS on a backup SSD and got it running through Lutris within the hour.

Origin was a fucking nightmare to use even on Windows, and honestly...the EA desktop app wasn't really an improvement.

Big businesses couldn't care less about where the money comes from as long as it ends up in their pockets.

Only thing stopping them from sending hired thugs to your house to shake the change out your pockets is the law. And even then they might try if the profit outweighs the penalty.