Peeko

The main problem you're gonna have with this is explaining to them the difference between gender and sex, how gender is really just a social construct, that sort of thing. Get them on that first, then the suggetsions of some of the other commenters will probably go down a lot easier.

Really wish we didn't need to wait for politicians to die of old age before we could replace them...

Honestly, if a fairphone had competitive hardware specs I'd get one as my next phone. I just can't go back to a 60hz screen and mediocre cameras.

Use the best tool for the job. I LOVE Linux, but as of right now it still has too many deal breakers to be my ONLY OS. I have to run it with Windows 11. That aside, my preferred distro is endeavourOS.

Main deal breakers right now include:

• Anti cheat support (this is getting better)
• Game compatibility (this is NEARLY solved but you still get the occasional game that crashes or doesn't wanna work well)
• Variable refresh rate support on multi monitors (yes wayland exists for this, but...)
• Wayland support isn't quite there. Implementations of it still have extra latency, using xwayland for games can have a performance hit, there's still bugs (looking at you SDDM), etc. Once KDE 6 and wine wayland come out I expect this to be solved
• Multi monitor scaling still sucks. KDE does it the best and I still run into problems with blurry applications on my mixed resolution setup

Fact of the matter is, Windows has none of these issues, and the problems windows does have for me (customization, spying, etc) are a lot less major and easier to deal with then the issues I have on Linux.

I think if you disagree with all of those points so surely, then you need to play more non-nintendo games.

Obviously you can still love these games even if you've played a bunch of other stuff, but a lot of the specific points I've made are pretty dang objective in the context of the wider gaming space, not subjective. The world is objectively very empty compared to other open world titles (especially new ones but even some that were out in 2017), the combat system is objectively very simplistic, the side quest rewards are objectively not that useful in the context of the game, the progression is objectively very lackluster after the tutorial areas, etc.

You can have a difference in opinion that's totally chill, and you can prefer Nintendo games that's also totally chill. It's just whenever I speak to people about these games such as yourself, and I hear them say things like what you're saying, it's almost always been an indicator that this person is either a huge Nintendo fan or just hasn't played many other titles that would be in this same genre. BOTW and TOTK are good games but they have clear flaws.

If by conservative you mean "you and your friends don't deserve human rights because I don't like you" then hopefully you're not welcome.

• The worlds are largely empty and boring to explore even compared to some much older open world titles
• movement/controls are clunky
• the combat system is incredibly simplistic especially compared to other games and makes combat largely uninteresting and unchallenging
• the weapon durability system is terrible and not only discourages exploration (to save your good weapons), but also prevents more complex combat mechanics from existing at all
• the plots really aren't good at all
• the shrines are repetitive
• the side quests have no good rewards and often aren't worth bothering with. This is due to any substansial rewards (health and stamina) being locked to shrines, main tools being given to you at the start, a lack of proper progression, and other tools like weapons being disposible.
• Because they give you all the tools at the start of the game, there's really no sense of progression making the game feel stale a lot more quickly then it otherwise should

TOTK doesn't really address any of these problems from BOTW. It does address things like enemy variety, and dungeons/bosses (barely), but both games share so many of the same issues I struggled to get through TOTK.

I guess all these free services had to implode one day, I just didn't think they'd all choose the same day...

Maybe a weird take, but I think life is strange.

It pretty much nailed everything it was trying to do and there's really nothing I would change about it if I'm being honest. I'm always super interested to see where the series goes.

The hardware on the ally is better but the software is weaker in some key areas (while being stronger in others!). Ally has a much more powerful chip (yes 10w exists, these devices all have 2 hour batter lives in games that need power anyways), it has quiter fans, a better screen, and is available potentially at your local best buy.

For software, anti cheat is still a massive hurdle for Linux so if you play any games that have issues on Linux, tough luck. General game compatibility can also still be a problem with Linux, coming from someone who's been using Linux on their main system for 5 years now. Proton updates can break some games, some games work better with certain versions, need extra fixes, or some won't work at all. New games will also tend to have extra issues, as can game launchers other then steam.

The deck makes up for that by being streamlined in plenty of other ways, so if you want the most console like experience then the steam deck is your option. It has resume on wake, it has a very streamlined ui, gamescope and mangohud built in, etc. If you want the best hardware and want all your games to work even if the interface is worse, then just get an ally.

And yes you can install Linux on the ally or Windows on the deck, I wouldn't bother with that though. Just get the device that best suites your needs.

As someone who thinks BOTW and TOTK have a TON of glaring flaws that modern game journalism refuses to critique, this is disapointing to hear. I fear they're just gonna keep making BOTW clones with different powers and I'm never gonna get a traditional zelda game that isn't a remake again.

I actually usually run linux on a USB SSD myself haha, but I am on a desktop so I can just leave it there. For you that's definitely a hassle.