It makes me feel like I own my PC.

Bend to my will, silicon golem, for I am root!

Everything. Software, usability, customization, community, you name it. Using Linux has advanced and keeps advancing my computer literacy skills. This would have never happened if I kept using Windows. There's also the "activist" angle. By using Linux and other FOSS software, I feel like I'm disengaging the worst parts of modern life and society and taking power away from the corpos even if it doesn't have huge impact.

bazzite in general has been great as an all purpose os including gaming

i did disable almost all the gnome extensions it installs but apart from that it's been super reliable

This has the feel of a marketing questionnaire. "Are you not ready to give a 5-star rating to Linux? Click here and we'll get right back to you!"

Oddly enough, I'm struggling to think of a single experience or feature. The decisive benefit of Linux specifically and FOSS in general is something less tangible: it's the feeling of empowerment and control you get. A computer of any kind is always something of a black box. Knowing that you have full control over it, even if you don't understand everything, is revolutionary. I'm certainly not going back.

• NixOS and its declarative approach irreversibly changed the way I think about system configuration and maintenance. Home manager and flakes are really important puzzle pieces in that as well.

• The steam deck is an amazingly well thought-out Linux computer that just anybody can use intuitively.

• From a UX standpoint, I love being able to remap keys on the system level with Interception Tools. (e.g. CapsLock is Esc if pressed and Ctrl if held on all my hardware for all users.)

Bazzite, the thing freaking works. I can do whatever I want without it crapping itself. Gaming, working, whatever. It's the best experience I had with a PC ever. Windows, Mac OS, or any other distro. On my work laptop I daily drive Aurora, which doesn't have any gaming stuff baked in, and has more dev tools at my disposal out of the box.

When I fully switched 2 years ago, I thought I'd try doing all my gaming in Linux and was really anxious wondering which and how many games I wouldn't be able to play. Imagine my surprise when all of them ran. I haven't found a single game I couldn't get running. Hell, I even beat one I couldn't get running in Windows! That being said there's a bug preventing VR from working that I'm a little sad about. Apparently Steam only supports Ubuntu, I use Endeavour.

It took a while to set up.

First, I had an issue in China because of UDP QoS. The game I was playing worked, but eventually you get the connection dropped.

So I connected through Wireguard and used udp2raw to simulate a TCP connection. It worked, but eventually the IP would get banned because China bans VPNs.

So I used xtls xray to get around this, but in normal operation it wraps UDP into TCP. This means when a packet drops it gets retransmitted which causes lag in the game at the smallest amount of congestion (and China is super congested connecting outside the country)

So instead of using http 2 I upgraded to QUIC by routing through nginx. Then I could still use udp2raw since QUIC is UDP. To smooth out the packet loss I used udpspeeder. To route all packets in the client I used tproxy with iptables rules.

Now, the best part is I'm on NixOS and I used the NixOS packages and wrote it as systemd services.

If I copy my folder to another computer and update all of this software would start up and route to the correct ports/addresses automatically.