Also recommend Tumbleweed. I've distro hopped for many years, and currently am using Tumbleweed and have no plans of leaving soon. It really is the best I've ever used.

I wouldn't recommend doing a Hyperland setup right away on first time ever using linux. Just run with KDE or Gnome for a while until you're comfy then you can try Hyperland. The reason I say this is check this page:

https://wiki.hyprland.org/Useful-Utilities/Must-have/

"Must Have
This page documents software that is critical / very important to have running for a smooth Wayland / Hyprland experience.
DEs like KDE / Gnome will do this automatically, Hyprland will not (because you might want to use something else)
A notification daemon
Starting method: most likely manual (exec-once)
Many apps (e.g. Discord) may freeze without one running."

So you have to do a LOT more setup and configs to get Hyperland up and running. Just use KDE lol. Tumbleweed rocks with Plasma.

Same! Dig 2 was sooooo good. And there aren't many like it really. Searching for all the powerups, making notes about spots on the map. Loved it. Dig 3 would be an instant purchase for me, I hope they get around to it next after Build.

Seconding Proton. Their suite of other apps are great as well. I'm hoping they do some kind of similar bridge thing for calendar and contacts soon, because without that I basically can't use them, but the other apps are great. VPN & Drive I use all the time.

This is true for 98% of them, but there are the rare 2% that are gems, really fun to play, and are sold as full games with no mtx. They're hard to find though. The app store doesn't promote / surface them so you need someplace like /r/iosgaming for instance to dig them up.

I think it'll live on for a while, but eventually nobody will use it, so it'll be just "hey remember when we used to use x?" and lol about it. Wayland is the future, so as more distros go Wayland by default, it'll slowly switch over.

Why I really want is a proper encrypted syncing 2fa app to rival authy, by the proton folks.

I love how the first post on kmoon magazine is to join their discord. Ummmmmmm .... what?

Along with the "better mod tools" ... I was laughing my ass off when the fuckstick spez said that while they cut off the 3rd party apps, they are diligently working and will soon have "better mod tools" immediately. Which of course prompted someone to link to a quote from spez himself saying almost verbatim the same thing 6 years ago.

Self burn - those are rare.

100% support this. Feels like it was made for the deck. Gives me super big Game Gear vibes but like you said, with 2023 qol.

Also what happens when a ton of users delete their content, as I just did yesterday. I participated in quite a bit of tech support chat on reddit, and now all of that is gone.

4k being tied to ONLY the highest sub level is what killed it for me. Canceled long ago. I literally don't care about anything else on that highest tier. OH I CAN DOWNLOAD 6 THINGS AT THE SAME TIME. Who gives a shit about that? All I wanted was 4k content, but I refuse to pay $240 a year for the service when just as you said: the content has taken a sharp nosedive.

Had an absolute blast with Dredge this past winter. Next up on my list is Nier as I've heard it runs super well and it's been in my backlog for ages.