• Find an open-source software that you’re interested in, but your main distro doesn’t provide it in the official repo. Be a packager for this software.
• Open your distro’s wiki, rewrite (or contribute, if already good enough) a page or section.
• Try the bleeding-edge version (or very-early testing) of your favourite distro, and submit some test results, regarding to your hardware.

IMHO these tasks are interesting, could learn a lot from these tasks, and other linux users could benefit from these work

Also: I think rpm-ostree only supports rpm-based packages, tho; right?

Can I install .deb software too?

I don’t think rpm-ostree could support .deb softwares, just like dnf/yum can’t support deb packages.

Can you share your use case for trying to install a deb package in Fedora? I’m just curious.

And is there any kind of system-as-a-config-file kind of solution available like in NixOS or blendOS?

Good question. I only have a few computers, so I had never considered about it.

While I’ve looked into Fedora Silverblue, that distro is limited to only install Flatpaks, which is fine for “apps”, but seems to be more of a problem with managing system- and CLI tools.

No. Your understanding to Fedora Silverblue is wrong. I can just run rpm-ostree install package.name in Silverblue, like other Fedora spins. The small disadvantage is that I need to reboot to apply this update. (re-construct)

but doesn’t that result in new A/B snapshots, or something like that?

Well, you can call it snapshots, but there is no need to think about it. In most cases, the system points to the newest snapshot (deployment 0). If a rollback is needed, I can pin to the older deployments. When a major change is to be applied (Like bump Fedora version), I’d manually mark the current deployment as dont-auto-delete.

Sure, but I’d like to have a more seamless experience, i.e. not having to open/start any “containers” or something like that.

I never used toolbox in my Fedora Silverblue system. I feel that I can’t tell the difference between using Silverblue and the default Fedora spin

How about creating an app password? It may let you by-pass the 2FA https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en#

My solution is not ideal:

I created a directory, called ~/config_sync. I create sym links for config files, like ~/.bashtc to ~/config_sync/bashrc

However, I need to record the sym links I’ve created, and repeat this process on new machines

Valve has been using MoltenVK to run Dota2 on Mac1. I’m a bit worried that if Valve would cut the funding on MoltenVK2. Furthermore, CS:GO had been an example of a cross-platform example for multiple-player game. Valve’s games may still support Linux/SteamOS, but what if other developers only release their games as win-only in future?

I think Fedora finds a good balance that

1. All components are OSS by default
2. It’s super easy to install RPMFusion packages when needed

Can you share the details of your procedure? Besides, which distro you’re using?

I’m using Thunderbird for my outlook.office365.com email account which is managed by employer. It works perfect.

1. Set server name to outlook.office365.com and Authentication method to OAuth2
2. Thunderbird will give you a pop-up window, which let you fill in the username and password
3. My account requires DUO, and it worked smoothly too.

However, it’s also possible that your administrator has different server settings, denying the access of Thunderbird.

TLDR, I think it worth a try

It’s sad that these games are not covered by PS+ deluxe. $120 sounds a bit expensive to me, but it depends on eager you want to play these old games.

Quick calculation: Assuming you have 5 games to play on PS3, you spend $120 for the console and $200 for the pre-owned discs, you’re spending $62 on average, which is almost the full price of a new release game. If you think these games are interesting enough, then this is a to-go decision.

As many people has pointed out, it’s always worth to try the simulator on PC first

As you stated, there are countless of great games you haven’t played. I think it is worth $100 unless you plan to buy a PS5/Xbox very soon.

You can try to find cheap pre-owned PS4 discs. Besides, you’d better have a look at PS Plus Extra Game list. Spending the price of 1.5 games, and you can enjoy 15+ games within one year.

For me I would not upgrade the monitor now. Only PS4 Pro support 4K gaming (for some games), I’d save the bucks for monitor upgrade in future.

I’ve not tried myself but the interface seems decent and I’ve not seen anyone complain about it being annoying.

Thank you! That’s a relief for me to when considering PS5 version.

Thank you!

“which one will I play more?”

This is a brilliant question. My PC and PS5 are both in my living room. However, if I play on PS5, it’s easier for my wife to look at me, and laugh at me dying :)

I know Diablo IV is a always-online game. I don’t expect to play it when I’m outside. I expect to play Diablo IV in bathroom or during insomnia (well, I know it’s bad for my health)

Might be a bit off topic here. I really suggest to have a check at https://www.protondb.com/

Many Win-only steam games are performing great on Linux now.

Besides, I’ve played https://vita3k.org/ for a while. There are countless decent old games which can be played via emulators on linux

As you’ve played Vic II, I’d recommend other Paradox games, Vic 3, CK3 and EU4. They have big differences compared to Vic II, but they have Paradox-style fun like Vic 2 IMHO.

HOI4 is fun too, but that’s a very different game, so I skipped it.

Besides, CS:GO just released a big update. Some friends told me that they have totally different experience now, so I suggest to play it again if you had AFKed (well, I don’t play CS)