Disregarding everything else you mentioned, I’m also extremely curious what exactly is being referenced when you say “Coco-Cola”?

(I realize it’s just a typo, but the idea caught me off guard cause it sounds gross)

Oh wow, I thought there was combat.

What are the RTS elements if not combat? Is it more “macro” level stuff like resource collection/ building/ tech?

I’ll definitely pick it up if that’s more what it’s about. I love RTS formats, but going back to starcraft style micro is way too much for me nowadays.

I dig city builders regardless though, and the roguelike aspect seems neat.

Against the storm has been on my radar for ages. How is it, and how’s the replayability?

Searx (as others have said) is an aggregate of multiple search engines all bundled into one, with very finetuned customization (ie: you can toggle every search option you want or not within each category).

You also don’t need to host your own, though I’m not sure what the significance of being self hosted in this case is.

As far as usefulness over other search sites, it’s generally better with some caveats. Search engines as a whole are in a pretty awful state, so combining them is better, but still not that good. It does offer some very niche search engines that can be extremely useful when pooled together though, which is nice.

Searx also has some captcha issues that I haven’t quite figured out. My understanding is that essentially, search engines don’t like when you use their engine without being on their site, and it’ll stop working via searx (until you go to the site in question and do the captcha maybe?).

There’s also a few different domains for searx with varying degrees of availability as far as what engines they reliably connect to.

All in all, searx is great by comparison to mainstream trash, but it can be a headache to setup, and a headache to maintain. There’s a masterlist of searx hosts somewhere, I’ll try and see about finding it if someone else doesn’t link it.

It’s also a way to essentially say, “hey if we release paid dlc, you can’t call it a mod and release it for free”.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Not to mention that there’s a temperature range throughout the day.

Susfishious.

I find this hard to believe. I’d be curious to hear roughly how many people you know that are on disability.

For those unaware, social security is extremely strict with earned income affecting benefits. It’s also incredibly difficult to start getting disability benefits, even with mountains of documentation and medical records. It’s quite common to have to appeal a case multiple times, and it often takes years for people to be approved.

Inside every human is two wolves.

Only rarely is a human inside two wolves.

Dunno, but I’m looking to find out. Give me 2 all the way.

I looked it up a bit ago because I was curious, and apparently Mod Organizer 2 works well on linux.

Also, not to shill too hard, but I like MO2 way more than Vortex (official successor to Nexus Mod Manager). I feel like MO2’s got a slight learning curve up front, but after that, it’s way more capable and easier to use than Vortex, especially as number of mods increases.

Ah, makes sense. I kinda figured it wouldn’t be that easy to solve, but I had hope that it might have a ‘cheap’ workaround.

Noted. both my monitors are 75hz and capable of variable refresh rate, so in theory they don’t need to have different refresh rates for my setup, but I imagine playing games and watching a video might throw a slight wrench in that. Just out of curiosity for my options, would plugging my second monitor directly into my Mother board help mitigate any issues on that front (instead of having both plugged into my GPU)?

Awesome, thanks!

I’m definitely not short on drives, so I’m not gonna bother with any partition shenanigans. The trouble is I only have one NVME drive, so it’s just a question of which OS gets my best drive, but that’s pretty minor honestly.

You mentioned Fallout 4, do you have experience in playing with mods on linux? That’s another unknown for me, as I like modding and have no idea how that might transfer over.

Noted about the USB drive, I’ll definitely have that available, thanks!

Thanks for the recommendations, and another thanks for giving a quick rundown on them too! These comments have been wildly helpful for essentially laying down some framework in my head about it.

Could you expand on that a bit? What do you mean by ‘work better’?

For context, my main monitor is the one I want working well (any gaming is exclusively on my main). My second monitor is only used for more screen space, and occasionally playing videos (I don’t care if it’s high quality if it’s on my second).

Hell yeah, thanks. I’ll likely not use bazzite then (I’m less concerned with breakage if it means I have more options). Is there any other distros that you might recommend? I don’t know what’s out there, and it seems like a lot.

Also, thanks for the links! I’ll check around there too.

I figure this is a halfway decent place to ask, and it’s on my mind. If there’s a better place to ask, I’d love a point in the right direction, cause navigating lemmy well still eludes me.

Looking to test out linux for the first time and I know fuck-all about the basics, and I have a couple of questions:

Again, if there’s a better place to ask (I’m sure there is lol), I’d appreciate a mention for that too.

Edit: collapsible spoilers are a damn godsend.