Yeah, CS 1.6!

I’m not sure about the master server list just yet, sorry.

Yeah, that sort of thing.

I should say that I’m finally having some luck with using wireguard, so I’m making progress. Got a few rounds of Counter-Strike in with a friend about an hour ago!

I was hoping to have servers be more public, so visible on the master server list and able to be joined by random people. (I’m a glutton for punishment I guess. lol)

I like a distro with problems that I can relate to.

Yeah. I feel like SteamOS users are basically just getting Pierre-Loup Griffais’ last successful Arch update. Bazzite feels more fleshed out to me, but to each their own.

No. Frankly I trust the community to maintain my distro more than a trust Valve. Plus Bazzite is generally great and I like the ostree style of atomic Linux.

Get a Bazzite machine.

Some anticheat games, yeah.

The vast majority of games, including most multiplayer games (and many with anticheat) work just fine on Linux today thanks to Proton, and even MacOSX is starting to catch up with GameHub.

For the few games that don’t work right now, I can easily imagine someone filling the gap with a Windows dual boot partition (or even just a PS5).

I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that Linux is closer to being what we need it to be today than Windows is. Windows has a lot of work to do, and even then it’ll never be quite as open or computer geek-friendly as Linux. I don’t see a good path forward for Windows, especially as casual users more deeper and deeper into mobile ecosystems.

But here’s the big problem: stripping all of the terrible shit out of Windows doesn’t make it better than Linux, it just makes it less bad than Windows is today.