If you primarily use the device for gaming and you have higher end hardware causing issues on stable distros, it might just be time to make the jump to an ‘unstable’ one. CachyOS is generally just as beginner friendly and is multi-purpose enough to run any productivity you’ll likely need, while being a little more stable than just a regular arch setup you’re likely to come up with yourself. The real draw is customized packages and kernels for more performance.

It’s ‘default’ desktop is bleeding edge KDE.

Generally speaking, as others have said, you’re not going to get up-to-date packages on stable distros, as that’s the entire purpose of said stable distros. Gaming in Linux being good is a relatively new development and massive strides have happened since 2024. As long as you’ve gotten relatively comfortable looking things up, even if those solutions haven’t really worked out for you so far, making the jump to a slightly more up-to-date distro isn’t going to be more difficult of an experience.

Terry A. Davis built this in his garage. With a box of scraps!

Firefox is unlikely to ever sell your data or redirect websites or participate in a cryptoscam or show you advertisements with an adblocker on. Brave has done, at one point or another, all of that.

Plus firefox is not manifest v3, so you can actually have a safe browsing experience whereas all chromium based browsers are now inherently more vulnerable to malware thanks to google.

Fun fact, the devs encourage people to share a serial-key to those wanting to try out the game, so you don’t need to purchase it in case you wind up not liking it.

Here’s a serial-key courtesy of an edgy vtuber that uses a war criminal as an avatar: TEITW-HP9ON-A7HMK-WA6YA

Again this is not piracy, the Devs actively encourage this. Which is awesome. So if you like the game, buy the game, encourage this behavior.

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It really is. WebASM is miles beyond what you’re probably thinking of in terms of browser based performance, and most companies these days do not have local applications installed for their office workers. Office 365 is by far the most popular version of office, and it’s entirely browser based. Most in-house corporate IT work from the last decade is electron wrappers of internal company websites acting as simple interfaces for actual heavy lifting.

While there’s definitely some apps that are a bit too heavy for WebASM (or just javascript/.net for the above examples) this list is vanishingly short these days. I’d say blender and other 3d rendering would be inefficient just because WebASM has weird interactions with anything other than OpenGL and Vulkan, But even Unreal 5 can export to WebASM and do it fairly well (as well as OpenGL can perform, that poor outdated thing).

Heck just go to itch.io or any website that has ported over games to WebGL/WebASM. You can run Half-life directly on your browser these days. Half Life of all games. That’s more demanding than anything not 3d that you’d run in an office.

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