The age old conundrum of the unit that may or may not be strong in real combat situations, but becomes absolutely gamebreakingly busted when added to videogames, because it’s strenghts translate into overwhelming advantages with none of the real life drawbacks it had to endure, usually via game design, bad balancing or games putting said units in unrealistic situations.

Take for example anti-aircraft guns since WW2. Other than the obvious real example of the FlaK88 being turned into an AT gun by the Germans, several others of these become anti-infantry or even anti-armor rapid firing nightmares in war games, because they’re put well inside their optimal range and within threatening range of infantry and tanks. Which would usually destroy them from afar. The OTO Melara gun is a good modern example. Italian radar guided 110mm naval gun, was never mounted onto a proper line vehicle that was adopted by any country. But the prototypes, like the OTOMatic, absolutely terrorize every game where they appear, as a hyper accurate, rapid firing, high damage anti-everything gun.

Horse archers are just the ancient ages example of that.

May I ask why? I’m a recent Arch user, and yay seems just fine for me so far. Haven’t looked into paru much yet. Is it because it’s made on Rust, or are there more/better features?

Oh shit thanks, I was literally thinking about options for that earlier today. I’ve been playing a lot of Gamma lately, and I’ve been thinking about how to transition my gaming PC to Linux. I have SO MUCH old and esoteric shit installed that I’d have to figure out.

I’ve been thinking the same thing lately, and based on my recent Linux usage on my other machines, I would probably pick something Fedora based with KDE. I’ve been using Arch on my “work” laptop and it’s been really fine and fun, but also a LOT of work (especially when I break something myself). Having a ton of very up to date packages to install, plus the AUR and Flatpaks to shore up anything that might be missing makes for a very “compatible” system. And of course, the freedom and courage to set it up just exactly the way I want.

I used Linux Mint for several years, it’s the one I can say I’m most comfortable with. If I had to set up another low power laptop or a computer for a family member I’d either use that or MX Linux. They just don’t break. I have also tried Fedora for a short time, and it made me start liking KDE Plasma, and it was honestly the easiest one to set up for Steam out of the box. And it had more in variety and more up to date packages than Mint, and also easily augmentable with Flatpaks for what’s missing. OpenSUSE was similar, but the package manager was excruciatingly slow, and there were no good mirrors for fast downloads, dropped that very quickly.

Although, overall from your past experience in the post and other responses in the thread, I think you’ll do just fine with Kubuntu. You’re already plenty familiar with how to use it and how to set it up the way you need it to. I’ve been considering Nobara for my gaming PC as basically a better Fedora, but I’m afraid of projects with so few people taking care of them fizzling out in a couple years, and it’s not as simple as just replacing it with base Fedora if that happens. So yeah, my personal choices would be Arch, Mint or Fedora. But my case is not the same as yours.

Not on my Arch laptop, no. That one has an AMD Radeon card. My gaming PC has NVidia but I haven’t tried it there yet.

Yeah you are correct in assuming that NVidia drivers do not play well with Wayland. It’s on NVidia’s side to unfuck their drivers, which they haven’t in a while already. I think there’s open source drivers that work better for that? Think they’re called nouveau, look that up. Might even be related to your gaming problems.

Ah that’s great, I’m literally setting up my own XFCE today after a couple of adventures trying out other potential interfaces and ripping out all the traces of the original KDE Plasma that I had before on my Arch setup. That took quite a bit of work and now I have to re-theme everything, including SDDM!

I am absolutely stealing a few things from your config, like the themes and icons.