As someone who used NixOS as a daily driver for a few months, I also agree with not recommending NixOS.

It actually is now. Both EndeavourOS and CachyOs have installers that set a good baseline to build off of.

There are solutions. Those developers/publishers would rather have kernel level anticheats than use any of them.

Not all competitive games require kernel level anti-cheat. Marvel Rivals, Overwatch, Valve’s games, and Halo all work under linux. It’s only a problem for people who want to play certain games like LoL, CoD, or Apex.

It’s definitely time consuming, especially if you struggle to find the right documentation\tutorials on how to do things.

I also highly recommend arch-based distros for gaming. The AUR is also full of various tools for gaming such as mod managers.

I don’t whats worse, having your name constantly butchered, or having to deal with a copywrite dispute with the 3 other people in the room with the same name for ownership of it.

I used paint(dot)net back when I still used Windows. After making the full switch to linux, I now use Krita, and have GIMP installed because it handles certain file types better than Krita. I cannot begin to describe my hatred over GIMP and how it’s a necessary evil in the world of image editing for anything that isn’t png, jpg, or webm.

Ughhhh. I just got my configuration setup the way I wanted it a few months ago. I really don’t want to jump ship after spending so much time learning how homemanager works.