That’s awesome to hear actually, I’m not as familiar with music production stuff and don’t have any personal experience with it on Linux, it’s just something I’d heard was an obstacle before
It’s crazy to me how much better and more viable Linux as a whole has been getting over the past several years
I don’t want to say it’s hard but it also feels disingenuous just simply calling it easy. honestly depends on the person and what they want to do with the computer
Installing it isn’t hard so long as you’re comfortable following some instructions to load a file onto a flash drive and hitting a couple buttons when your computer turns on
For usability, If you absolutely need specific programs that don’t work on Linux, like anything from Adobe, MS Office, CAD software, a lot of music production software, stuff like that, and an alternative just won’t work in your situation (such as if you need it for work) then unfortunately there’s not really a proper solution there. TONS of programs have a Linux equivalent that’s open source and free, many of them work fantastic, but also there’s many that aren’t ideal. For gaming though, it’s gotten REALLY good. With the exception of certain huge multiplayer games with anti-cheat, almost everything will just work if you use Steam, and most other things you can make work by adding them to Steam as a non-Steam game and clicking a couple buttons
As for cost? It costs no money but will cost you some time when you’re first setting it up and learning the ways it differs from Windows
If installing it doesn’t intimidate you and you don’t need any of the software that’s not supported, then it’s honestly not hard overall but there will be some adjustments
Same, except I’m American and would be happy if I was mistaken for one of my northern next-door neighbors
(I’m from Minnesota)
No, but I was actually able to play some solo on Linux when I tested it, and the single player mod SPT works on Linux
I don’t believe online PVP works though
I can see the value of this if for example the localization is done poorly, reviews in that language may be a bit more harsh because it would affect the overall experience but that being said I don’t know if I like the idea of it affecting the overall review score shown to the user
The ability to at least see how people speaking different languages review the games would be useful and interesting though in my opinion
Using SteamInput yeah, I’m pretty sure
It basically works the same as the Deck’s controls itself, you’d just have to configure it in Steam. Not sure if it would have a default config or not though
“When young like you I was, party we did. Confidence - high. Midichlorian count - higher
The dance floor, owners of it were we. No other crew like us, was there”
My personal favorite was the time I accidentally gave every file in the system full permissions because I fucked up somehow with writing a command and recursively changed them on EVERYTHING instead of just the one directory I wanted to change
I was just trying to get a game from Origin (I think?) to work and I don’t remember what lead me to trying this but basically I just had to reinstall Linux