sleepyTonia

What, you don't like installing programs the good old Windows way? /s

I'm not gonna try and tell you it's perfect. But as someone from Québec who needed an emergency surgery mid-lockdown, I was able to see multiple doctors, spend a night at the hospital, got examined in every way necessary and received said surgery, along with morphine for the following days... And basically didn't see a damn bill. I had to wait a long time in the ER at first. Until it got worse they just told me to be patient. But from the quick estimates I did, this would've cost me maybe 10-15k$ in the US. Best case scenario. Scenario in which I then have to deal with an insurance company that bitches and moans about having to fulfill its part of the deal. And then of course they'd increase my premiums.

I'm sorry, what game? This just looks like a 5$ bin indie™ (They got 30M$ in funding through investments) Unreal Engine 4 shooter. The fact that there's no controller support or console ports planned says more than enough. What's newsworthy about their use of a crappy anti-cheat? Not like most in here were ever going to even think about it. It's a freemium GAAS shooter with an almost inevitably a small player base which will be all but dead a few months after coming out. I know I'm being mean and their people have been working on this game for years now, but come on.

I hate that they're basically Windows-style free-for-all executable installers brought over to Linux as if that's a pleasant or safe user experience in any way. I've also had a few annoying experiences with programs packaged that way and I'd much rather just get a zipped version of the game executable and asset files. Works just fine for basically every Linux game I've downloaded from Itch.

Man, an AppImage? If I ever get it it'll be on Steam for sure.

Every fucking suggestion you received can be bought for ~30-50$ right now. If that's "crazy expensive" to you, maybe you should consider just getting a regular mouse. I'm pretty happy with my 10$ wireless mouse from Amazon. Neither regular or gaming mice will have issues with Linux, as you'd know if you just spent five minutes with any search engine.

So long as you're not playing competitively, for which you'll generally want a computer that's actually "crazy expensive", you don't need a gaming mouse. It's a luxury item.

You said you're looking for a new mouse and that Linux support is a concern in the same message. That is going to lead most people to assume you're at least open to suggestions. For sure sometimes people in nerdy forums will try to 'correct' you rather than help you, but come on.

And the only thing I'd worry about is customization software. Mechanical keyboards are generally well supported on Linux in that regard, but #Gamer #RGB, consumer peripherals will often only target Windows users on the software end of things.

"Disrespect of poor people"
My dude, you never even posted a budget. Gaming mice are usually around a hundred dollars since they're meant to be of a higher build quality, as well as equipped with more, better bells and whistles. Your scoffing every time someone mentions a mouse more expensive than an Amazon basics one doesn't matter if someone is answering your post without having read everything that was said prior.

I'm confused. Have you tried what is suggested in the arch wiki? Controllers are easier to get working on Linux than in Windows in my experience... And I'm on Manjaro. The Xbox 360 controller was considered the default for such a long time that in many cases, other controllers' buttons had to be remapped externally to match the xbox 360's in order to play games. It should be completely plug and play if your adapter and controller both work.

I gave it an actual try and it's fine for intermediate users, but leaves much to desire out of the box for a regular person. No printer support out of the box... It's disabled by default, gotta install cups and enable it manually through systemctl if you skip that in the installer. And of course, most people would. Bluetooth is also turned off by default (Systemctl again) Samba 's turned off by default (Systemctl and package installation again, as well as some extra steps in the terminal) and it of course didn't come with a base Samba config file, which is required.

Manjaro's got a reputation and people love to hate it... But it doesn't have those issues and aside from the cases where you would absolutely need it on the most user-friendly distros, you don't need to ever touch the terminal on it. Pamac works really well, shows up as "Install and update programs" in the launch menus, supports native packages, AUR, Flatpak and Snap... and looks good to people who don't get angry at the sight of a CSD window. I use the AUR fairly frequently and have encountered essentially zero cases where a package wouldn't build on my system because of some Manjaro-specific issue in the past five years.

Edit: And for the record, I would recommend PopOS for anyone looking to use a stable Linux computer with up to date drivers and no nonsense. Arch based distros are good for tinkerers and I'd only recommend them to people who like fixing things and want full control.

Man... At this point we really should actively be telling people to stay the hell away from Ubuntu. This is some M$Windows levels of sneaky and borderline malicious behavior.

Where did the duckduck go?