I get that lotsa ppl love it and have nostalgia… But it was Waaaaaaaaaaay too weeby for me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m just as happy starting at @ 2b’s booty as the next hetero cis gamer male… But the plot twists, ultra gravitas dialogue, teen robot angst paired w a post Apocalypse world that’s still all about hyper sexualized girlbots was all just… Too much for me to take seriously. The combat, while interesting, also became a very tedious exercise in juggling while holding down buttons and switching perspectives. It felt like old armored core… In the bad way.

I mean, those are nice addons, but the people that ive handed vanilla gnome to whove never used linux before didn’t come screaming to me “how fo i dash to dock?!?!”

Like if thats the workflow you want, you just search extensions and customize… but none of these are required to just like sit down and do basic stuff.

Now KDE on the other hand… Just trying to find out why bluetooth or clock or volume or whatever quick access isnt where i expect on the kde toolbar. or figure out that i right click the correct “separator” to go into a separate like “widget” menu THAT IS TOTALLY SEPARATE FROM THE BASIC SETTINGS APP, or whatever to set those up is just… bizzare.

Glad it works for ya. I know that some bugs seem to be distro-dependent, so i recognize its more stable on some… for me? Nightmare.

“Autohide” n dodge window feature of taskbar broken for several different apps, but not all. Sometimes displaces the border of the windows offscreen trying to hide

Start menu freezes regularly

Dolphin freezes n hangs a lot in general. God it took me all of 3 secs to say " I NEEd to disable that stupid bouncing “LOADING” animation ASAFP"

Sections of taskbar dead/unclickable suddenly… aka bluetooth quick acess or volume controll

Worst is a giant mesh of graphical glitching and artifacts upon waking from sleep, have to close windows, sometimes restart. Seems its a known issue w video caching for nvidia gpus (fucking nvidia, of course)

… Not a complete list. Anyway, I have GNOME installed on exactly the same pc, same distro, none of this bug shit happens.

Glad it works for ya. I know that some bugs seem to be distro-dependent, so i recognize its more stable on some… for me? Nightmare.

“Autohide” n dodge window feature of taskbar broken for several different apps, but not all. Sometimes displaces the border of the windows offscreen trying to hide

Start menu freezes regularly

Dolphin freezes n hangs a lot in general. God it took me all of 3 secs to say " I NEEd to disable that stupid bouncing “LOADING” animation ASAFP"

Sections of taskbar dead/unclickable suddenly… aka bluetooth quick acess or volume controll

Worst is a giant mesh of graphical glitching and artifacts upon waking from sleep, have to close windows, sometimes restart. Seems its a known issue w video caching for nvidia gpus (fucking nvidia, of course)

… Not a complete list. Anyway, I have GNOME installed on exactly the same pc, same distro, none of this bug shit happens.

Kde is so ugly and buggy, requiring tons of setup n knowhow to fix. GNOME feels limiting and oversimplified, but honestly 9 out of 10 times its fine… even if its setting menu infuriates on the regular.

Im old and i dont having 100 hrs to rice shit anymore

Good plan. Hard to say where my immense nostalgia ends and quakes “greatness” begins, but the og campaign is still one of my happy places after decades… and the folks at id n nightdive etc have done a great job adding to it and updating it for modern times. Dimension of the Machine is fantastic!!

If possible, transport yourself back to 1997 and get some friends to do a local multiplayer threewave or deathmatch… god, my brothers and i had so much fun.

Wow! Havent heard of this one… looks great.

I love q1 mods… if you want one thats much more aesthetically quake, try arcane dimensions

Have never looked back since i switched to gos… just buy a refurbed pixel to avoid giving big G ya monry.

Remember, though, in less than 200 days google kills all “sideloading.” It seriously fucks with gos, and they have hinted they will eventually disable flashing custom roms

Yeah, let’s see how it works out for you and your marxist book club buddies when you bring a couple rifles and try to start your “righteous revolution”… You will be crushed. Violent factions are playing right in to the bait.

Protect each other, aid each other… but dont be fucking naive. Fucking leftists vi swear. You cant out-gun the largest military industrial complex in human history.

If you can get a copy:

Rythm heaven gold (ds)

Mega Man Zero (gba)

Any nds castlevania