bwoah on Nostr: I appreciate your thoughtful response. We ran UBlue for a while, then BlendOS for ...
I appreciate your thoughtful response. We ran UBlue for a while, then BlendOS for about a year before we jumped to Nobara thinking that a more traditional Linux focused on gaming would be a better experience. I don't remember what made us bail, but our time with Nobara was short.
My suspicion is that using Family Share with Family View in Steam is causing issues when things update. My son is 11 and the Steam store is full of pretty questionable content for kids, so Family View is enabled. Probably if I was a gamer this stuff wouldn't feel as hard or frustrating as it is for me. I spend more time fixing things that I'd like and am now planning to move him to Windows with the hope that things will break less frequently. I have some friends from work who have given me advice on how to lock things down and disable some of the creepier Microsoft things.
I've been using Linux for about 14 years and, save two iPads, that is the only thing we use at home. I have a soft-spot for Arch and am always game for setting up a new Linux system, but I feel like I am now bumping up agains the edges of what Linux can support. My son wants to play Destiny 2 with friends and it won't work on Linux. I'd rather let him experience Windows and then maybe he'll value the things that were great about Linux, instead of Linux being the thing dad made him use as a kid. ; )
My suspicion is that using Family Share with Family View in Steam is causing issues when things update. My son is 11 and the Steam store is full of pretty questionable content for kids, so Family View is enabled. Probably if I was a gamer this stuff wouldn't feel as hard or frustrating as it is for me. I spend more time fixing things that I'd like and am now planning to move him to Windows with the hope that things will break less frequently. I have some friends from work who have given me advice on how to lock things down and disable some of the creepier Microsoft things.
I've been using Linux for about 14 years and, save two iPads, that is the only thing we use at home. I have a soft-spot for Arch and am always game for setting up a new Linux system, but I feel like I am now bumping up agains the edges of what Linux can support. My son wants to play Destiny 2 with friends and it won't work on Linux. I'd rather let him experience Windows and then maybe he'll value the things that were great about Linux, instead of Linux being the thing dad made him use as a kid. ; )