Plasma has a Win 11 menu clone as well, iirc. I forget what it’s called.

Oh, so it’s not just me either. It’s one of the reasons I’ll never install Ubuntu.

No idea! It certainly had that screen, but I can’t recall if it was necessary. I’ll have to get my GBC out and see. It’s pretty smeary on my GBA.

• Petey Piranha
• Mewtwo

No idea.

Not a GBA game but a GB game: Solar Striker

Still have never beat it to this day.

Way more fun, too.

I never could understand the appeal of that game.

Oh, nice! Might give it a try myself!

Look into:

• Bazzite (Fedora Atomic)
• Nobara (Fedora)
• ChimeraOS (Arch, AMD-only)
• Garuda (Arch)

All are preconfigured for gaming. Bazzite and Nobara use the fsync kernel, not sure what Chimera uses, and Garuda uses the zen kernel.

Otherwise, Arch is still the most popular choice for gaming if you look at the statistics.

I see someone every now and again on !pop_os@lemmy.world asking about random Cosmic bugs, which is why I’m hesitant to recommend it to someone green.

I know Cosmic is there, but it’s not even in beta. I can’t yet recommend it in good conscience, especially for OP, who is new enough not to know the difference between a distro and a DE.

(And if you’re reading this, OP, that’s nothing to be ashamed of.)

The word you’re looking for is Desktop Environment (DE). KDE Plasma is one such DE. Distro is the underlying system.

• i3 has been around forever and has lots of guides on how to customize it. Only downside is it’s X11-only, so as everyone moves to Wayland, X11 support will decrease.
• Sway is i3+Wayland, though it’s newer, so I dunno how much customization content is out there or whether the i3 tutorials are forward compatible.
• Hyprland is another popular choice, and it is Wayland-based. Only downside is the project lead is a toxic asshole, despite being a gifted dev.
• Cosmic is an upcoming DE, so if you’re in no hurry, keep an eye on that one.

To install any of them, search for the project and see if they have an installation guide for your distro. If not look up “how to install <DE> in Fedora.”

That’s very true. I think Bluefin might be a better choice. Good catch!

Maybe Aurora. It automatically updates, you can install everything via flatpak, and it’s pretty intuitive. Set up the admin account for you to do any maintenance, then set up a non-admin account for them to use.

It’s Atomic, though, so if you’re unfamiliar with ostree-based distros, it could be an admin headache for you when a problem arises.

Thanks, that’s awesome.

It’s great to see Linux projects getting some funding.

Second Ikaruga. A unique way to play a shmup.

I would also give Jamestown+ a try.

Doesn’t exist. You’d think that after several years of customers asking, they’d have one.

Their OVPN performance isn’t as good as WG, so it’s really just a backup solution in my mind.

But my main point is that there exist edge cases like that where “install it in a distrobox” isn’t a panacea. You either have to learn podman and how to forward your network traffic through the container or learn how to pack your own flatpak/appimage/RPM.

Yes and no. WireGuard configs are still not something they offer, despite customers asking for the last several years. They have often said they would do it, but they have yet to deliver on that promise.

OVPN configurations are an option, but the main benefit of the client is the ability to change tunnel configurations on the fly. If there’s something you want to change, such as connecting to a different endpoint, you have to go back to the website to configure that tunnel and generate the config.

So you basically get 40% of the service you pay for if you try to use PIA with an immutable distro like Bazzite (which is not the various distros’ faults).

Okay. There’s no flatpak for PIA’s client, so that doesn’t help me, and I don’t know how to create my own (not for lack of trying). Same deal with RPMs and Appimages.

Also, just FYI, the flatpak for ProtonVPN is unofficial, in case you weren’t aware. Make sure to double check the source files.