I am not sure what do you mean. I use fedora with Nvidia (it’s a different repo to activate) and my main rig is for gaming… No problem what so ever. Using Fedora since 37, what a smooth ride.

That sample text file, you can save it in the “Template” folder in your home folder, and then you can create a new file from that template with the right click menu > new entry :)

Great list, but a couple could be added:

• btop (process/resouces monitor, highly customizable)
• lnav (log navigator, grouping folder of files in one display, search/filter etc…)

are you sure you don’t mean the opposite? Because on trackpads, it’s like on touch screen and should go in the same direction no? (I mean, from when I used a MAC, I couldn’t use natural scrolling with a mouse, but loved it with the trackpad…)

yet, the auto updates will restart your computer no matter how many programs were left open…

What I like with Linux:

• no restart behing my back to force install updates when I have pending work
• no bloat
• customizable (win11 forcing to having windows of same app groupped grinds my gears!)

Though, it’s not perfect (I guess I have slight hardware issues on my end), I feel way more relaxed (really) when using Linux than Windows.

recently, I use btop in replacement of htop, really easy to use and pretty to look at.

I submitted a ticket to Steam about some issues I had with their client, and they told be those were addressed in the Beta version.
And all my small issues I had are gone! So I can use Steam with XFCE without issue right now.
Pretty happy, really.

I am switching to XFCE to see how it goes, the fact it is lighter on resources than Gnome is a big plus ;)

A lot of input in the comments, I’ll just add mine in the mix.
I guess wanting to change the OS for someone can be good if:

• the current Windows version is EOL and/or has security issues/concerns,
• the hardware is too old to upgrade,
• the current user is fed up with crashes, popups, slowliness etc…

Now, I would go for Mint anyday instead of Ubuntu, because the default matte desktop feels more confortable when coming from windows.

As for Scrivener, I don’t even know what it is, but Wine is quite good recently, so if you’re tech/linux savy, you could try to make it work.

I tried during the week-end, and it’s a confortable and light experience.

But Steam (I game a lot on my computer) doesn’t work well, it stops showing the store page (it gets all black) when I change the virtual desktop.
I then have to display my library then click again on the store to see the content again.
Very annoying.
If it was not for that bug, I might have switched permanently.

I kept it installed and will retry from time to time if the Steam issue goes away.

I used to love XFCE many years ago, and will try to set it up again this WE.

I can’t read your config because the screen shot is too small, you should post block of text with ``` before and after.

It'll loke like this.

Then, I don’t do C++, and I have never encountered this issue, but if you’re using Mason in your setup, you might want to try to update your language server, then use the command LspRestart maybe…

I’ll give you my point of view on it.

• People who pirate games are generally young and have no money. (like me a long time ago)
• People who have work and money, will buy games to support the devs. (like me right now)
• People who still pirate games (or any content) are trash, maybe you can just ignore them?

Pirating is not a bad thing, since people will discover your “brand” and when they can, they might buy your games. (I remember playing Starcraft 1, D2 and AOE, all quakes pirated when I was young, now I have all of them in my steam library)

OSS your game but the assets could be a great way, it feels similar to openTTD in a way.

But supporting Linux is great thing, (Fedora user here) and I try to buy games to support devs that support Linux natively. I have about 900+ games on Steam (Mainly Win titles), and I have finished only 30 or 40 of them. Now that Linux is getting more popular and because Steam makes playing windows games so seamless, it’s not worth the assle of pirating IMO.

But that just me. I am sure there are many others with similar opinions out there ;)