TL/DR it’s about boulding software yourself. I’m describing the process and my thoughts.

Alright, everything downloaded, let’s build this software. Oh, it fails because… wait a second, what does this mean? Okay, so I’m missing a component. This component is in - well, I don’t know. This post here - no, that’s about coding. The second thread is coding too. Oh, the third one helps. Okay, so I need to install this package.

Nice, the error message changed. Now I go through the whole loop again and - no, the post didn’t help at all, I still have the same problem.

[some hack later that I never remember]

So, the next thing - great, I cannot install it because of some incompatibility with another thing I’d like to keep on my system.

[solution differs here]

Oh, of course I don’t have everything yet, why would I? So I’m missing - nothing, the library is literally right there in this package that’s already installed, but the compiler is too stupid to find it. What’s wrong with you!?

I give up.

That’s the procedure most times when I have to compile something on Debian and there’s no prerequisites list. Dependency problems can obviously happen on Arch, but it’s not 7 iterations, it’s more like 2. Or I use an AUR Script and don’t care.

EDIT: I now see that I am repeating myself a little.

My main reason is, it’s not a dependengy hell. If I want to build software, I don’t have to go through 5 iterations of being told something is missing, figuring out what that is (most annoying part), installing that and retrying. On Arch-based distros, it’s 2 or less, if it even happens.

Also, AUR.

Other points include

• Small install (I use archinstall though, because more convenient.)
• rolling release.
• Arch wiki

My installs never broke either, so it doesn’t feel unstable to me.

I like it more than ther distros because

• Debian is a dependency hell, otherwise fine. Older packages. I still use raspian though.
• Fedora has too much defaults that differ from my preferences. I don’t want btrfs, I don’t want a seperate home partition, dnf is the only package manager that selects No by default. dnf is also the slowest package manager I’ve seen. Always needs several seconds between steps for seemingly no reason at all. Feels like you can watch it thinking “Okay, so I’ve downloaded all these packages, so they are on the disk. That means - let’s slow down here and get this right - that means, I should install what I downloaded, right. Okay that makes sense, so let’s do that. Here we go installing after downloading”. I also got into dependency hell when trying something once, which having to use dnf makes it even worse. - I guess you can tell I don’t like Fedora.
• Love the concept of NixOS, don’t like the lack of documentation

Last time I checked Gapps were baked in though… Which wasn’t the case before.

Except I always eject…

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“There’s a problem with your USB storage device”

*Continues to work just fine, just as if there is no problem*

I have installed all of those Sims games at one point. It works fine. Mods work without any problems as well.

Lutris will help you for the most part.

I think for Sims 3, I specifically had to use Lutris 7.2 as the runner (IIRC, I have to check again). It didn’t work with other versions. I will verify this when I’m home.

I did the most setup for Sims 3 (there is a whole guide for performance). I don’t remember details too well, but it’s still set up I think, so you can go ahaed and ask questions

Minecraft runs native, for Steam games you can see protondb.com

I’d be worried a bit about the Nvidia GPU. But since I have no experience with them, someone else should give you advice on this.

(I came from i3)

Still use rofi, because too lazy to configure something else. (My scripts are heavily based on adi1090x/rofi).

I took my polybar config and made waybar look pretty much the same.

Not sure what you mean by “shell” exactly.

Others mentioned good sources.

I like to install in Lutris.

If the game is not a Steam exclusive, you can get some help from Lutris-scripts, and if the game is a bit older, maybe even winehq appdb. Otherwise, ProtonDB (if the game doesn’t run but the recent reviews say to just hit play, look for older reviews).

Most of the time, the issue will be .NET or vcrun (Majorgeeks AIO is easier than winetricks IMO)

Barely had issues wich FG yet. She even has instructions for Linux. Limit to 2GB RAM works almost always.

I had one game where I had to use the Lutris 7.2 runner and I had a diyferent game where a feature would only work with Proton.

Newer Codex cracks don’t work.

Here’s what Signal says: https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/

Signal knows all of their users’ phone numbers.

Only the hash of your phone number.