At this point, when do you even want a password to be shown? If you don’t need a password, get rid of it entirely.

Do you still do this by just pressing enter when you change your password? (i.e. entering no password as your password)

I switched to Linux as my daily driver back last summer and have been able to play every game I've tried with literally no issues. Admittedly, I had issues at first but then I switched to Pop!_OS, which has built-in support for Nvidia hybrid graphics. That solved the few gaming issues I had.

With how easy it was and how many games work with no issues, I'm genuinely surprised to hear people say they are having issues with it. I'm not even close to a linux expert. I'm not a programmer. I don't want my OS to be a hobby, I want it to just work. And so far it has.

I never worked with any versions of NT before 4, mainly because I was mainly doing desktop support stuff until I got my MCSE cert. But it did indeed work surprisingly well considering how janky it was.

Win2k was such an improvement it wasn't even funny.

By the way, did you know that the Windows NT Resource Kit shipped with the GNU C compiler?

If I did, I've forgotten it by now. lol

Well, there is a pretty large community of gamers who play games on Youtube and Twitch professionally. You could always watch someone else play it briefly to get an idea of what to expect. Once you eventually find some games you really like the style of, you will be in good shape. You can then ask for more targetted recommendations here on Lemmy, or look up reviews for games in a similar genre, or find streamers who play games you like and look through their old videos for similar games (they tend to stick to a style usually), etc.

First step, I think, is figuring out not what you don't like, but what you DO like.

There are lots of games out there, and just like any kind of entertainment, some will hold your hand and some won't. Everyone has different tastes, different things they want to do with their time, different amounts of time and money, and there are games that cater to all of them.

Unfortunately, the only way to tell which is which without playing it first is by doing a little research.

So it seems like you're a little stuck, you either play a game blind and hope it's right for you, or you look into it beforehand to figure it out before spending your money. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect but hey, you do you. Good luck!

What's the over/under on how much this guy paid into the "game" so far? I'm gonna say with this level of defensiveness, at least a few hundred dollars. Considering he plays with his wife, probably double that.

I feel like the overlap of people who want to play games, can afford and have a really good Internet connection, but don’t want to just buy a console/computer is really small.

This is a really good point. I wonder if the value proposition changes significantly in places where the internet is really good but the average income is a lot lower than the US.

Will those work in linux?

Am I looking at the right thing? Melvor Idle is $10 on Steam? Is there a free version somewhere? I find it hard to imagine paying that much for an idle game. I paid $2 for Space Plan but $10?? I just... this can't be right.

It's by the GloriousEggroll guys, and I really liked it a lot. I would still be using it if it worked better with my laptop's hybrid Nvidia graphics setup. When I get around to swapping my desktop to linux, I'll almost certainly go with Nobara first.

FWIW, Pop!_OS is where I landed for great hybrid graphics support.

Oh, obviously Wild Hearts if you haven't tried that yet. I don't know if it has crossplay but it's a newer MH clone with some interesting new mechanics. I found it to be just okay but it might scratch the itch for you.

I'm not linux expert. But I have been messing around with it again lately, trying to get it working on my gaming laptop. I was using Nobara for a bit, which I liked quite a bit. It's a Fedora-based distro that's put together by the GloriousEggroll guys so it comes with Nvidia drivers and tons of gaming stuff preinstalled.

I ended up ditching it mainly for one reason: it didn't handle my hybrid graphics well. Some games worked fine, some refused to even start.

I ended up swapping to Pop!_OS because it supports hybrid Nvidia graphics with no issues. The guys who make the distro sell laptops with hybrid graphics so they have incentive to have it work well. All the games that wouldn't start in Nobara work seamlessly in Pop.

I'm not a huge fan of the desktop environment but I'm getting used to it and there's definitely something to be said for everything just working.