Shifty Eyes

Start with

• Linux Mint Cinnamon

OR

• PopOS

For all your gaming needs, there’s a Steam app you can download from whatever app store or flathub, or download/install directly.

• Heroic Games Launcher

• Lutris

• Piper for changing gaming mouse settings

I went from Windows to Mint Cinnamon, to PopOS, to PopOS Cosmic Alpha for the last year on both my laptop and desktop. PopOS and PopOS Cosmic Alpha have been great, minimal issues for me on Cosmic with gaming but there were a few hiccups or delays with newly launched games, more so an issue with Nvidia drivers than the OS. For example I had to wait a month or two after Starfield launched because there were bugs with the Nvidia drivers.

Protondb is a great resource both for checking if a game runs well on Linux, and also checking troubleshooting steps if you do run into an issue, there might be some advice on what worked for other people to get a specific game running.

Also avoid Razer or Corsair gaming mice or do your research on the specific model before buying unless you want headaches with not being able to edit the RGB settings. Best if you still have access to a windows machine if you want to own anything Corsair (or are fine with not being able to edit RGB settings). I have a Logitech G502X without RGB because of all the headaches I was having with my last few Razer and Corsair mice.

Edit: OpenRGB is another resource if you have an RGB device and need to change some settings, there’s a list of supported devices on the website.

You might consider a linux tablet, and then just watch whatever it is you’re trying to watch through a webapp (firefox) or Freetube/Peertube for youtube content, Grajay, and the linux Jellyfin app.

https://itsfoss.com/linux-tablets/

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Some alternative for you for the keyboard:

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo/

https://keyboard.futo.org/

https://voiceinput.futo.org/

Edit: Check out their other apps too, you might find something you like https://futo.org/

Just put a car battery in the wagon, all set.

My ex kept her’s in an unprotected excel file. I never peeked, I was just surprised when I saw her accessing it on her laptop.

Some food for thought, (excerpt from Louis Rossmann’s reply to the top pinned comment):

"with regards to products: if you want to only buy shoes, razors, cars, caulking materials, etc, made by companies & people who support all of your political beliefs, you’re going to lose that game very fast. you will waste your life doing the following:

1. researching every item you buy to death
2. making these items yourself once you realize it’s impossible to find each item you want made by someone who mirrors your ideology
3. give up & live in a cave

The moment you go down that road of throwing away software products and services because they are made by people whose political beliefs do not reflect yours, you are going to end up living in a cave. That is a lonely world. It doesn’t even work!! People who bought the Tesla Model 3 a few years ago would have Ford F-250 Turbo Diesel drivers speed up in front of them and roll coal in their face. And now that same person is getting called a Nazi!!!

the political beliefs of the software i use are irrelevant to me. They only become relevant when these questions arise:

1. does it stop me from using the software the way i want?
2. do their political beliefs keep them from being able to make a functioning product?

for gnome, #2 is yes. gnome was bad 10 years ago,it was bad 5 years ago, and it’s bad now. i used gnome for a very short time period earlier in 2024 out of morbid curiosity. my machine had 128 gigabytes of ram, rtx-2080, threadripper 2950x processor and gnome still lagged. XFCE just worked! on top of that, gnome sucked to use. i am not using gnome: whether it’s “woke” or “anti woke” or whatever else.

if we’re at a point in the world where we choose our web browser by the political views of its programmers… we’re screwed"