This is how enshittification perpetuates.

If it’s not open source as much as reasonably possible, it’s ultimately no better than Android. Kind of annoyed that distinctions need to be made between “real” Linux and “fake” Linux.

Very much not true. Arcade sticks are still popular in precision platformer and fighting game circles, because the underlying mechanics and tactile feedback are conducive to precise inputs. Analog sticks are the antithesis of that.

Some people in those communities do choose to use sticks, but most prefer either dpad, arcade stick, or leverless these days.

I love what RetroFighters does, but I wish they would design their Dreamcast controller to fit a vmu, and add a second analog stick while they’re at it. Dreamcast still has so much homebrew potential, but the lack of dual analog inouts holds it back.

Gulikit ES Pro is easily my favorite Xbox-style controller. It’s almost identical to the Xbox Series controller, but everything about it is a little better. The dpad is as accurate and tactile, and not as loud. It uses tmr sticks.

It uses bluetooth for wireless, but it’s kind of miraculously low latency for being bluetooth, and rivals most 2.4 controllers in latency tests.

But to be fair I have never been able to bring myself to spend $200+ on a controller. This one is only $30.

It’s time to bring back this stuff!

This is also exactly my problem with minimalist systems. That, and things being hardcoded in a way I don’t like and not having any reasonable recourse to change it.

I already make my own Projects folder. Does this mean programs are going to start being tuned to make changes to it? Leave my adhd folder alone plz.

Yikes, ~$1,700 for a bulky Rockchip arm laptop with an awkward roller ball instead of touchpad. 😬

This was pretty much my impression of /e/ as well. Used it only briefly. It ran poorly, had a bunch of crap I didn’t want. Bad launcher. Things didn’t work properly.

Overall impression I got was that the people who make /e/ do not know what they are doing.

While the GrapheneOS dev comes across as sus and toxic to me, part of me would like to give it a try. But between Pixel phones still having black screen of death problems, and newer ones lacking a headphone jack - I found a Moto G100 plus LineageOS with MicroG is a great option.

I only run open software on it, and keep everything proprietary on my old un-degooglable phone that only gets turned on when necessary.

I mean, yeah, that’s exactly what I’m going to do is stay on stable. Or maybe in a year or two when Trixie gets a little too outdated, I’ll give Siduction a try. As far as Stable goes, I just think people tend to overreact about the packages being older. They’re older for a reason, and bleeding edge distros tend to break more for good reason - even if they have gone through some testing before deployment, you are still running a lot of software that’s basically in beta status. No amount of tests are going to catch every edge case. Even my Fedora laptop occasionally has weird stuff happen after updates sometimes.

But I was just musing about the idea manually giving Debian Cachy-like features. If somebody is recompiling their own kernels and rebuilding whole portions of their system, being on an unstable system isn’t going to be much of an issue. A person with that kind of skillset can handle them self.

edit: oh, also, I’m not going to be running anything strictly current on my machine anyway. My desktop uses a Ryzen 7 2700X and RX 590 - Final Fantasy 16 won’t even start on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Listen, everyone knows all configs go in /etc/etc/etc. User-configs included.

The main one that I’m aware of is that Gobo relies on a lot of symlinks to make their folder structure work. The traditional hierarchy is still there because a lot of programs have been designed around it. It’s just hidden.

I had some counters in mind to the things you’re saying here. But I don’t feel like bothering. So I will just say the big problem with everything you’re saying, is that you’re arguing against using Debian.

Meanwhile just last night Elden Ring on my Trixie desktop went brrrr.

I’m not a fan of immutable distros, and always having the latest drivers has never been an issue for me. Having a system that’s less likely to break after an update is a bit more critical when it comes to actually being able to spend time playing games.

But what I meant is that Debian has tools I can use to recompile my packages. I’m not aware of any reasons why I wouldn’t be able to rebuild my system to replicate the unique features of CachyOS myself if I wanted to put in the work. And at that point I could always start with Sid as a base as well, which would be just as bleeding edge as any rolling release distro.

Or, there is always Siduction as well.

I wish there were Debian with Cachy-gaming features. Wonder if I could just do that myself? 🤔

It’s not a question whether they work or not. It’s whether you’re okay with an app distribution system that forces us to be dependent on one corporation. Snap’s backend effectively makes Ubuntu almost as bad as Android.

And seeing as there is no shortage of better options, why not choose those?

@_@

I’ve been trying to think how I could have a good way to play games outside. Was thinking if I ever have the extra money for it, I could get AR glasses, and connect those and a solar charger to my Steam Deck. And a controller. Cyborg in the wild.

Asking the real questions.