And having one of those friends who’d often say things like, “I HIT you!” and “You’re OUT!”

It looks like the number of people who RuneScape (3?) is less than that, but OSRS seems to have a healthy population.

https://www.misplaceditems.com/rs_tools/graph/

Because they make a lot of money.

Would you be happier if it were paid DLC? It’s more fitting as a mod anyway, since the whole thing was very on-the-rails.

You’re right about that, but that doesn’t address the main concerns I made in my post.

Listen, I love my Steam Deck, but it isn’t a reasonable replacement for heavy Switch users, like this guy and his family. It’s not exactly a high-spec’d machine and as a result, in my experience, none of the Switch games play at their original FPS on the Deck. Some are so bad that they are unplayable. Online play is going to be, at best, limited and far more difficult to manage. Heck, setting it up in general for kids that probably just want to play the damn games is going to be more annoying. The worst part would be listening to, “Dad, why can’t we just buy a Switch?” a thousand times.

I’m not saying my setup is any better, but it currently looks like this:

• Firefox
• UBO
• SponsorBlock
• Return YouTube Dislikes
• DeArrow
• Archive.ph

I’m open to suggestions if anybody knows any better alternatives. I’ve had mixed luck with services that filter out YouTube’s crap.

Ah, yes, Ventoy, my favorite “open source” program. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795

I edited my original post, see if what I wrote makes a bit more sense.

Gotcha, I’ll edit my reply accordingly then.

EDIT: I would report it to Apple as bug. Who knows if it’s part of iOS or an app- the only way you could tell is if you start uninstalling your apps.

Out of genuine curiosity, what is it missing? I have to use macOS on my Apple Silicon computers, so I haven’t tried out Asahi.

I think you’re partially right, at least, based off my personal experiences.

My wife who despises Windows is primarily a macOS user, but she’s fine with using Linux, assuming I’ve setup anything “technical” beforehand.

However, I think complacency will continue to thrive for Windows-only users. I think there’s only a small vocal minority that is switching from Windows to Linux. Most of the people I work with continue to use and complain about Windows, but are too intimidated by Linux to switch. I think the average Joe doesn’t even know Linux exists.

I appreciate your well-thought response. I’ll give you my 2¢ and I want to preface what I’m about to say with the idea that this not a hill I’m willing to die on, it’s just my personal experience.

On the contrary, I have accidentally ran into a number of people online saying “I’m so happy with the performance of my Linux box” but less so for Windows, but that’s likely due to the communities I’m a part of. I also made my original comment with specific, stubborn people I know in real life, who hate Windows and refuse to do anything about it.

The time you’ve seemingly spent configuring Windows sounds like the same amount of time an average Linux user would spend to setup theirs. I also use Windows, macOS, and Linux daily and have all kinds of weird issues on all 3 of them, but for Windows, since everything is closed source, there’s often nothing I can do about those issues other than wait for an update and hope those issues are fixed. The same goes for macOS but the number of issues I have with it are very minimal in comparison. But at the end of the day, if this setup makes you happy, then I’m happy to hear it.

This would be a lot more accurate if Windows users weren’t constantly complaining about Windows.

Reminds me of some encounters I had when I used to play RuneScape.

“Tall, dark, bad boy with power” = Darth Vader