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Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?
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SteamOS is open source.
Proton is open source.
Steam the game platform is closed source.
Hopefully it is obvious why open sourcing a payment processing application with tens of millions of user and bank accounts tied into it would be highly problematic.
You might as well be demanding PayPal or Epic Games Store to be open source.
There are 0 games I have that do not work on Proton.
This is because I don't play games with rootkits.
You may have heard these referred to as 'Kernel Level Anticheats'.
They're rootkits, and nearly every single major anti-cheat system that exists has at least one game where its been made to work with/on linux.
All game devs that say its too hard or impossible to make AC work on linux are incompetent or lying.
I have absolutely no idea how you managed to screw up Waterfox, I've been using it for like a year + with 0 problems.
I've never encountered any behavior from it like what you describe as a default setting.
I have never had to write any code to get ... I don't think any version of linux I've ever used, to work, as an OS.
... what... specifically, is the 'functionality' of both Linux Mint and Bazzite that you apparently only get out of one or the other?
Like genuinely, what does that even mean?
I play games on Bazzite, and I've also compiled 03DE from scratch on Bazzite, I tinker around in Godot and Blender and various other dev tool type things regularly.
It is entirely possible to work and play on either Linux Mint or Bazzite.
With LibreOffice, yeah, you don't get all of the proprietary Windows fonts directly out of the box, but uh, Bottles is a neat flatpak that rapidly sets up a Windows environment, with a GUI, and its a few clicks to add the 'all fonts' dependency, snd then voila, you have your proprietary fonts.
What you almost certainly are is a jaded Windows poweruser who expects non Windows operating systems to function and be tweaked and follow the same paradigms as Windows.
They don't.
They are different operating systems.
They work differently.
Applying your Windows based intuition will lead you to break things.