They all play great on the Steam Deck.
This is what I do as well. A nice benefit of this approach is that other commands and applications that use ssh work as well.. scp, rsync, TRAMP in Emacs, management tools, shell scripts etc.
The Taverns of Tiefenthal is a new one for us, played it 3 times so far. The game combines deckbuilding and dice drafting in an interesting way. First time we played with the basic ruleset after that we felt confident enough to throw in all the modules at once. The game is definitely best in this full mode. The extra modules are not too complicated and make the turn-decisions more interesting. Some act as mini-games of sorts. One of my favorite modules is the one that gaves unique starting setups, looking forward to playing with all of these. I kinda wish there were more besdies the 7 included. There is an expansion out there, will have to look into that at some point.
It shouldn't as long as you make sure that the numeric uid/gid of your user account matches the one from the original system. If that's not feasible then you can chown the tree.
Not worried at all, I've moved on many years ago.
Been using Gentoo for almost 20 years and the reason I am sticking with is flexibility and transparency.
It's a source based distribution and the package build system makes it easy to opt in or out of features. It's up to you if you want to use systemd or some other init system or if you want X11 or Wayland etc. You can build with just the features you use but nothing stops you from sticking with the "kitchen sink" builds you get in other distros either.
By transparency I mean that you configure everything the "normal" way using the package's regular configuration files. There is no magical config generation, everything stays the way you left it.
There is decent tooling to help you work with all this. It's a great choice if you want things in a certain way and you know your way around a Linux system.
Thankfully the quarantinedDomains feature is behind a flag and it can be disabled. I would much prefer if users got more granular control over such things instead of the Great Lizard watching over us.
KB article about the feature
Bugzilla bug tracking the implementation
How is Noita with twin-sticks? I see that some use trackpad aim but I am more comfortable with the stick. Is that workable for casual play?
Easiest is to just enable sshd, then you can scp or rsync stuff back and forth.
Check out Scout too, feels a bit like a streamlined Haggis with the neat twist of the double-sided cards. The two-player variant works well too.
I only support small projects that might actually need it. Not interested in deluxe editions with giant boxes of plastic and I don't mind waiting for retail and a good deal.