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Betterfox is less hardcore about privacy than Arkenfox, It’s more a balance of privacy and convenience.
Arkenfox is the privacy above all else approach which means some more invasive sites can break.
Both are good but Betterfox is easier to deal with for most users.
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I had a similar issue around 2 years ago now on POP where my bootloader didn’t even show up in the bios anymore.
If you still have the a USB with the live boot of POP you can use it to recover your files n stuff.
qBittorrent! You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.
Was using Deluge before on Windows and for a while when I switched to Linux but started having issues with it.
Waterfox is the safe bet, it’s basically just regular Firefox repacked with better defaults and telemetry turned off, but it isn’t harden or has add-ons included.
LibreWolf is what I switched to over a year ago, The team behind it have been pretty thorough in scraping out spyware and it comes pre-hardened out the box (but that can break more invasive websites).
Plugins will only change it on your end and Google won’t care since they still make money farming your data when you use their services.
Best to just try get used to OSM and other Google service alternatives.
I also checked and DuckDuckGo’s Map also changed to “Gulf of America” might be time to give SearXNG another try.
As someone who started using Linux while on Nvidia and stuck with it for over a year before going full AMD.
Just go AMD, so many little things I had to find workarounds for just because of Nvidias shitty drivers.
Even after Nvidia claimed to support wayland I could never get it to run on my install, then having to manually configure my xorg just to get my 170hz monitor working which then introduced graphical issues I just couldn’t fix…NONE of that was an issue the moment I swapped to a RX 7800 XT, didn’t even have to install any drivers they’re just standard in the kernal.
Seagate has been very hit n miss with me. I’ve had one of their drives last near a decade only for a newer model of the same drive to fail within 6 months.
What’s generally considered more reliable brands for around the same price? preferably ones easy to grab in the UK.
I don’t use Battle.net but I had a similar issue when using EA Desktop through Lutris. The program would demand a restart to apply updates then would just shutdown and say the same thing next time you ran it, if it even still ran.
My permanent fix was to use Bottles for EA Games and it’s worked fine ever since then. Lutris works fine for everything else though.
EndeavourOS is what got me to daily drive Linux finally.
The installation is easy, it’s got sane defaults and pre-installs most common dependencies.
As crazy as it sounds, some people only trust software backed by a large corporations.
Valve for the most part has extremely good will amongst the typical gaming crowd. While Linux as a whole doesn’t.
I’ve tried to sell people on Bazzite before when they’ve brought up wanting SteamOS for the desktop, But I always get ‘But it’s not “REAL” SteamOS, just some random Linux devs clone’.
I agree it’s the wrong way to go about thinking of it, Probably backed up very few people outside the Linux space understanding what a distro actually is. But it’s still the general consensus among your average gamer sadly…
Still I’m hopeful an offical SteamOS release will be good for getting more people to try and explore the Linux space.
I dunno about you update issues, But one thing I have to point out is the Linux native version of BL2 is an outdated build so if you want to play co-op with Windows players you have to run it through proton.
I’d like to think there’s a difference between “keeping up with the times” and chasing whatever new thing gets advertised.
Unless you’re really into number chasing with benchmarks then just keep using whatever you like until something YOU find better comes along.
Also I’m GenZ and just use whatever comes with the DE, it’s not an old person thing shakes fist.
TempleOS is the only OS corpos won’t touch, It’s protected by a holy shield!
I didn’t clock much on my Steamdeck time as it doesn’t seem to count non-steam games…
Honestly my Steamdeck has kinda become a bigger beefier PSP for me, mostly PS2 games or PC racing games of that era.
Somehow missed your reply until now.
They dropped support on the Linux version forever ago and moved to Easy Anticheat which DOES support being used through Proton but the devs won’t enable it.
I’ve gotten repressings of MoR and Vol. 4 but after hearing the original mixes on FLAC recently I really wanna try hunt down the originals. If I can find them within my budget…
I agree but it’s sadly the new standard for mainstream gamers to be drip fed “content” like crack so if they feel a games lacking behind they go somewhere else to get their easy fix.
I’ve played games for 100s more hours after their last DLC release just because I loved the gameplay. So it makes my eye twitch when my people I know load into a new game and immediately comb over the battlepass n skins to see if it’s “worth their time”
Game hasn’t received an update in what will be a year later this month.
The main dev keeps promising a huge update is in the works but won’t so much as drop a hotfix for obvious flaws in the game currently. They made more than enough money to bring on extra staff but just didn’t.
BUT you can still easily find games most days on the main modes (assuming you live in the US/EU) And the games been left in a pretty decent state.
I’ve clocked in 319hours and still think Battlebit has been the best FPS game we’ve seen in nearly a decade. Which is why it’s so frustrating the way the devs are handling it currently…
For me that game was Rust and it was more ‘Maybe for the best if I don’t touch that game again’
I’ve been wanting to abandon ship for years, but sadly convincing the average gamer is another story.
Which is the main reason most of us are stuck using it if we want to talk to friends.