I’ll give you a simple thing you can do that will make a huge difference. First and last half hour of your day, spend them with no screens. Sounds minimal but it will help you lower your dopamine baseline, after that it’ll be easier to embrace tranquility with each passing day.

After that, if you can, add some friction between the thing you’re doing (maybe you can add a pincode requirement or something?) and yourself and if possible, set a defined time of day for the activity.

Lastly, just some willpower every now and then to stop or even not start.

The way I understand it, you will be able to keep enjoying it without it consuming your life, IMO this is the kind of thing we should all know to do in this day and age.

I’ve been told a thousand times that linux and linux gaming were finally easy before getting in, not in a thousand years would I have thought installing steam would kill my whole linux installation.

Just my two cents. Also I’ve learned that linux people tend to lie through their teeth so I never take them too seriously, the same people that get angry when you criticize linux for difficulty or weirdness will crucify you for installing steam in the exact moment a once in a lifetime bug you couldn’t predict (as a newcomer) kills your os.

Can’t think of an instance of reload, but I have had issues with melee, grenade, interact, hook, etc in more than a few games

There are lot of people who really believe that, not just an answer help with choice paralysis.

IMO, that’s the lesser of two evils. Start first, get annoyed with nuance and tedious internet arguing later, if you’re content enough before reaching the latter, that’s a win in my book.

I’m sorry you had those issues, I know the pain, browsers have been a compromise for me on nvidia hardware and it seemed like I was the only one with a problem when searching for a solution.

If you ever decide to try again, cachyos is the only OS ive tried where browsers don’t lag or drop frames (mostly, still something ocassional but mostly unnoticeable) so you might want to try that in your next attempt? Whenever that happens.

I’m sad to see so many comments lashing at you for expressing your opinion, but I’m glad to see at least a couple more reasonable ones. Hopefully next time you try there are more people ready to welcome you with open arms.

What drove me to linux more than anything was my profound hate for windows (which preceded me ever trying linux by a handful of years), I just couldn’t fathom how so much money and r&d could culminate in such garbage (my opinion), there’s no good reason for most problems to exist, at least when something happens in linux I know it’s mostly a coordination problem between a dozen of unpaid developers that do it for the love of the game and have no relation or communication with eachother.

I’m glad to see people open to trying alternatives to it, mostly because I don’t think anyone deserves suffering through windows.

It will eventually turn into this

Whatever you interpret that as since my main goal here is to seed conversation, but the thing that I was thinking of when asking was a web gui with some live stats, doing some simple maintenance stuff, maybe manage or glance at docker/podman status and other services, etc.

Since I’ve seen some conversations about documenting setups so they can be picked up and troubleshot by someone else unfamiliar with the setup like a family member, I expected it would be common to lower the friction for basic maintenance but seeing the amount of ssh comments makes me think otherwise, maybe more people use their servers exclusively for personal entertainment than I expected.

My laptop needs reliability to be fairly certain I’ll have everything working when I use it on poor internet, my desktop is always comnected to high bandwidth and has a decent cpu so I can spare a bit extra time and cycles on updating everything when something breaks

Different needs

I did like having the same thing going on on both for the couple months I used mint on both.

I use linux exclusively on desktop, it’s got a lot of problems, many seem unique to the user, I hate that the way to discuss the problems for a lot of people is pretending they don’t exist, makes first contact more problematic for newcomers. Even before touching linux I’ve been hating that attitude with a passion from windows users, at least it’s not a problem exclusive to linux.

You’re describing cooking with friends

I believe the biggest hurdle (even bigger than the mountain of tech and capital needed) is people having the will to try to migrate to something else.

Everyone talks big about stuff beong crap but almost nobody puts an ounce of effort into trying, even when there are viable alternatives, the slight amount of discomfort of actually making the switch is enough of a deterrent to actually do it.

Think of when everyone were doing that reddit blackout where they would solemnly swear they would come back after pretending they would abandon it, lemmy existed, forums existed, nothing was one-to-one with reddit so barely anyone actually did leave or even tried replacing it with something else.

Night of the dead. Might be a bit jank but it’s pretty fun if you enjoy the game-loop.

• Obs uses more cpu in cachyos than linux mint, no idea why or what I can do about it, experienced the same difference between manjaro and mint (might be something to do with kde)
• audio breaks, when I boot I have to switch to output devices to fix it. No idea why
• sometimes it logs out of the desktop and when logging in it freezes

Having said all that I’m having the time of my life with cachyos, everything works great and better than it ever has in my experience running an nvidia GPU. I did do some tweaks of my own, wizh I didn’t have to but it’s not bad at all