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On cachyos gnome it wasn’t immediately obvious how to grab extensions and that they even existed, so at first I was like f this and immeidately swapped to kde, only used it out of necessity because the global menu had issues and it was faster/easier to install another de over reinstalling my os and grabbing my apps again. Then after googling I realized the extension store exists and now I love it, but yeah it was initially off putting, I didn’t have a gnome user around to tell me whats possible or a de with extensions already enabled to view.

kde would prob be a bit more intuitive/easier to customize for a kid, i do prefer gnome my self, I also use wobbly + burn my windows

eh got snapshot and backups on and off pc, if anything goes wrong ill survive and be ready to go in a minute or two, dejadups is lowkey annoyingly slow to load tho

Has to be fake, or he just heard the word flow state somewhere and misunderstood it’s meaning, lol

Concepts great, think s@box’s sandbox mode will pull it off better for what I want, just a social sandbox that can be played flat/vr letting ppl make stuff in game and outside of it.

Vrchat has some interesting stuff forsure, got me interested in unity and blender, but most of my time there was spent solo trying out worlds/avatars, some ppl remade full game character with all their abilities using unity particles, was cool to learn and try to make anime attacks (i never tested them in vr, looked great on the preview on my monitor, terrible in vr, you need to use meshes)

dont let them on vrchat, i judge the fk out of every parent allowing kids on there

like it’s possible yes, but ppl act like that means it is a great game engine that everyone should use, sure it’s possible, but it’s likely not any easier than using unity/unreal engine, s@box hopefully will take some of their base since you can eventually publish your own games without any fees.

vrchat is also like this + furries, they also kinda groom them into furries by not allowing them into their exclusive clubs and kinda bullying them into being one, saw a video on it, discord cults too

oh and gearlever to update appimages and make desktop files so it shows up in menus, i only use this for shutter encoder right now

Cachyos is great if you want access to everything, debtap for the rare ocassion you need to install a deb, can install snaps and flatpak support easily, but you don’t really need to mess with all that, mostly everything is available with aur + flathub (have to do one terminal line since cachyos doesn’t have it by default)

Bazzite does have bazaar by default, which i like as the best flathub appstore, aur version stopped working for me.

honestly i see pacman/yay just as much as I see other stuff when looking at instructions, (paru is pacman/yay in cachyos for that stuff, pacman in cachyos is their own repos)

if on cachyos you get like 12+ de options which is nice when initially testing them all out, just demo each for a while

if you miss iphone + cydia, gnome + extensions is max dopamine, plus with arcmenu (customizable start menu, many presets) and dash to panel (panel like windows/kde) it’s basically like any other de.

cachyos, post install click install gaming packages, in steam goto compotability switch it to proton cachyos, done, there is no struggle, it grabs heroic and lutris too for non steam stuff

Arch feels more like windows because I like keeping everything up to date, cachyos because I dont want to spend an hour finding the gaming packaged and I like the preinstalled apps + de options. Plus aur is great just need to add flathub support real quick and its great.

Lot of bootloader options too, I like limine since its clean and easy to swap lernels, also one click to setup btrfs snapshots after install which also show up in limine with no extra setup.

seems unnecessary to support it natively if the goal is to have ppl run linux apps that way

They are adding linux support tho? Can’t you just install steam using crostini? I’ve never used it just heard of it.

damn could usbs be used as disposable os, i guess thats why tails is used that way, since its bad for the usb to use it that way, they are getting pretty cheap for the fast ones, idk why youd need a dispoable os you could lose at any second tho, maybe if it was very connected to a cloud service

I went through the hassle of dualbooting and accessing my drive through linux (not that much hassle but as a beginner it was), ended up uninstalling windows, but i had time to tinker, which is key to making me like it, I was okay with not having a usable pc and I learned what I needed/wanted as substitutes. If you don’t have time experiment on a side device or using an ssd, they are fairly cheap now, you could even use a cheap fast usb if you don’t mind it shitting the bed eventually.