Eh costs likely basically nothing. They appear to use cloud flare CDN which has unlimited bandwidth.

So really all they’re doing is getting their money’s worth from their subscription. Lol

If you want a console like experience on your PC then use bazzite. If you want the same experience but with out the console lock down use cachyOS.

Depends on how much you do with your PC really. Like bazzite has one of the best out-of-box experiences there is. Basically everything is preset up. But if you need to say, leave the steam ecosystem. Things become infinitely more complicated than any other distro to do anything with that is both the benefit in downfall of an immutable distro. It makes sure you can’t f*** anything up but it also means you can’t f*** anything up if you get what I mean.

While cachyOS has the exact same out-of-box experience with the sole exception of you have to push one button and type in your password. And if you do need to leave the steam ecosystem, it’s at the end of the day a normal distribution so you can just do whatever you want.

The downside is you can do whatever you want so you can break s***.

Basically comes down to bazzite is basically old Windows. You are not allowed to do anything really without a lot of jumping through hoops. It means you’re going to get a consistent experience and it’s going to be reliable, but only within the operating parameters set out by the distribution.

While cachyOS is basically all of the same upsides but without any of the guardrails. So if you want just a good out of box experience it’s there. All the compatibility is the same if not generally better in the real world. But again, if you’re stupid or unable to read basic instructions there’s a good chance that you break something and you’ll have no idea how to fix it. Short of a reinstall.

I would give a child bazzite 100% of the time. Immutable this shows work is a fantastic form of parental control. Because while the barrier exists and will prevent most kids from doing something stupid with their computer, it’s not insurmountable and you still can do whatever you want with your computer. It’s just not easy.

But in either case, I would choose literally shooting myself in the foot before using anything in the debian or Ubuntu family if my primary goal is gaming. I love Debian but it in its family of distros are so out of date and require so much f****** to actually bring in newer packages and make sure that they actually compete even half as well as a fedora or arch-based option that it’s not worth the hassle. You’re far more prone to breaking a Debian mint popos install. Trying to make it equivalent to bazzite or cachy for gaming. Than you are breaking an arch install by just randomly installing packages from the aur without reading anything.

Problem generally is that the moment you do have to leave steam. It’s infinitely worse and basically impossible to use for a low skilled or new user compared to other gamer distros that do the exact same thing as bazzite but arnt immutable.

Immutability is great till you need to actually do anything at all. It’s such a catch 22. To a new user, it means you can’t accidentally f*** anything up, but also to a new user basically means your computer is a glorified console and you can’t do anything with it because you lack the skill set in knowledge to actually do anything in looking. Anything up basically isn’t going to be helpful for you cuz basically every guide and written account anywhere you find isn’t going to be geared towards an immutable distro.

The immutable gimmick that’s currently going on right now is still way too flavor of the month for new users who are trying to learn from a ground set of nothing.

If I was giving a computer to like a kid who I didn’t want to be able to do anything I would give it to them as a form of parental control more than anything.

Immutable distros are currently the flavor of the month and it’s basically just that. Bazzite is just a worse cachyOS. But because it’s immutable it’s the flavor of the month and therefore it’s the hype new thing.

Everyone loves the hype new thing. Even though in all realistic aspects, it’s more overly complicated. It’s more prone to causing issues for new users. It’s less proven.

There’s a good argument to be made that the project might just end up imploding in a year or two and dying out and f****** over all these new users who are flocking to it because of rampant suggestions.

Is also the general issue of Fedora and its family being prone to breaking itself from early adoption of new ideas. People love to give Arch s*** but Fedora tends to be the one that actually implodes itself for low-skilled users.

Got to love flavor of the month

It suffers from the same problem all Debian/Ubuntu family distros suffer from.

Being horribly out of date. It’s a very slow moving family of distros. Which can be a good thing if your work load doesn’t involve new hardware and software along with a focus on stability and reliability. Since if things don’t update they can’t break.

This can result in support for hardware and software being upwards of two to three YEARS out of date. Which for gamers for example is unacceptable and causes issues more often then not.

It’s the why fedora or arch based distros are generally speaking the better option to suggest to people. Depending on their level of intelligence, education and willingness to learn.

Bazzite and cachyOS for example are both fantastic for gamers.

Fedora or endeavour for your run of the mill office PC.

There is a serious argument to be made that the mass adoption of bazzite and the general flavor of the month affection for immutable distros is very likely going to cause issues for loads of users down the road.

So bazzite being overly popular is somewhat concerning. Flavor of the month distros have a bad tendency to implode randomly.

No, I could believe it cat’s a heartless creatures who only demand your heat, warmth and food. That sounds just up the alley for something a heartless crypto minor would find a kindred Spirit in.

Totally checks out that a crypto Miner being lonely would be a crazy cat person.

Arch breaks less frequently then Ubuntu at this point… Honestly I would put arch in the top 3 most stable and unbreaking options.

You have to go out of your way to break arch nowadays. The catch 22 is arch will happily allow you to do that. But it sure won’t do it, it self.

Cause Debian is an out of date rock.

If you need a rock it’s good

But it’s still a rock for better or worse and rocks are a pain in the ass to do anything with that isn’t just having it sit there.

Torque is a real b****

Respect from large studios and software developers for one.

Actual professional investment and availability for another.

The user end of govermental and professional linux space literally is only as shitty as it is because of the lack of user base.

If the next words out of that foxes mouth arnt a tirade of absolute unfiltered hate towards gnome. Then we goanna have problems. And I think Its time for a nice new fox fur scarf.

So what your telling me it’s time for the Mexican fembois to rise up and take over America?

Iv heard of worse fates.

If there is still food to be stolen from your neighbours then things haven’t reached the point of revolt.

If there is still enough energy to be expended on hating your neighbor, then you haven’t reached the true point of revolt

When things are truly at their worst, your neighbor has no food to take. Your neighbor has no goods worth stealing. Harming them brings you no food, no money and less energy.

When things have reached that point, that is when the only option left is revolt and it does not matter what consumerism what gifts are given what lies are said. The only thing left to do is revolt or die. And no group of people will simply choose to die.

First mistake using bazzite second mistake not using cachy.

Third mistake? Playing Hogwarts that game just wants to not be played it’s wildly hard to get to work right for some damn reason.

Very few companies will fund any research into this field and they almost always have it locked in private libraries and you have to request for it specifically. You basically won’t ever find anything on the subject publicly or hell, even behind a publicly accessible paywall.

There have been a number of people over the years who have done this very research and spoken about it publicly and that’s a key complaint they have on it.

Few times that research has been shared and I’ve had the privilege to actually read it. It has been shown that one. It is totally normal for sex preference development to just be stunted. It is a thing that just happens. That yes therapy does help and for the most part those who would not abuse so long as they get therapy show no indication that they would change in become an abuser.

It has also been shown that when there are healthy alternatives for the expression, those who are abusers and do so due to mental health, developmental or standard sexual preferences have access to those healthy alternatives. They are more likely to stop abusing or seek therapy once they have found a healthy outlet.

Pretty much the only case where you can say that not having a healthy alternative and therapy shows no help or those who choose to be abusers do entirely to personal reasons.

Basically the only time not having harm free. Healthy alternative material helps is when you’re talking about rapists not pedophiles.

That’s the other part of the problem. So many people just assume pedophiles are rapists. When one is just the sexual attraction, the editor is someone who is a abuser. And while common for those two things to be labels on the same person they don’t have to be, nor do they need to be.

We demonize the issue so heavily that we do frequently drive people to seek out a healthy alternative and a safe method of expression into circles with abusers who will then use those people to make a profit. Which only drives the need for more abuse material.

It’s the same problem that you see with basically any other drug vise issue that we overly demonize in society. If you don’t give people a healthy alternative and a clear path from problem to safe solution to therapy, they’ll never make it to therapy.

But unfortunately, due to the nature of the subject, finding anyone who’s willing to fund more research, finding anyone who’s willing to have their name publicly attached to that research and finding anyone who’s willing to fund actual help for the issue is basically impossible.

For obvious reasons, I’m not going to read any reply to this comment. I’ve had enough death threats to last a lifetime. So if you have a differing opinion or if you want any more information then share it with others and do your own research.

I’m only sharing my personal knowledge that I have on the topic. Whether or not you choose to believe me is your prerogative. As always, this is the internet. Do your own research. And if you do not know how blame your public high school.

The annoying part is having healthy alternatives actually reduces real world harm. So punishing these people for seeking healthy and harm free avanues to deal with their mental issues and sexual needs. Is just baffling.

The scant amount of good research we have all indicates it’s not a choice but a developmental or mental health issue. For the vast vast majority of people who struggle with this problem.

But we just keep demonizing any hopes to let people get mental help or express themselves with out harming a minor.

So all we keep doing is reinforcing the taboo and driving those who struggle to associate with those who actively choose to be abusers. Thus only creating more abusers.

Suggesting anything that isn’t arch based for a gaming focused solution seems stupid as hell to me. No matter how you cut it, there’s a god damn good reason valve picked arch as a base for steam os.

Other solutions are just not going to be as good. Will they work? Sure you could game in Debian for heaven sake and be perfectly fine.

But it’s just more possible problems. Gaming is basically the exact inverse of non cutting edge. It’s the exact worse case where even bleeding edge may not be new enough to properly support things even months after release.

If your playing 10 year old games anything does fine, but other wise your updating packages to what might be newer then your distro supports regardless as which point why arnt you just on arch where that’s less prone to explode.

Just switch to dota from league ez fix. You get your toxic moba addiction fed and you can ditch league!

Open RGB is a absolutely fucking shit show.

Then again RGB in windows is barely better then a fucking shit show.

RGB controls in general is just bad on everything.

Desktops only frankly became remotely useable to normal people with recent revisions of things like kde…

Between that and software actually finally started becoming remotely reliable in like 2022-2023 for your avg windows user.

Comparing the past to now is not reliable fair.

More progress towards making things normal user friendly have happened in the last 3-5 years then the last 20.