I think the elite offers a lot for that price. Swappable sticks and back paddles, trigger stops, multiple profiles, adjustable tension, etc. It’s basically an OEM “custom” controller.

That being said, I like other controllers better than my elite.

I’ve been enjoying the GameSir G7 for a while. It’s wired but I kind of prefer that. My first G7 had a faulty left stick in the first two months. I think it was faulty from the beginning but I just didn’t notice it. I sent them a video of the issue and they replaced it outright.

It’s a bit smaller than my Xbox elite controller and it feels pretty great. I like the clicky dpad and the two back buttons. Stick tension is nice as well.

I’d like to see trigger stops but they haven’t done that yet. I’d also like to have clicky face buttons so I’m considering one of their khaleid controllers. Those are minor nitpicks, though. This controller has been terrific.

On android, lemuroid is pretty good for this sort of thing and you can change the arrangement of your nds/3ds screens.

I have been using the hell out of bazzite for the last few weeks and I’ve really enjoyed it. There have been a couple of minor bugs but otherwise everything just generally works.

I’ve enjoyed it so much that I’ve also installed bluefin on my work laptop.

Not OP but:

• on a desktop it’s defaulted to desktop mode. I’m unsure about the steam deck.

• you choose. KDE or GNOME. Budgie is being worked on.

• lutris can install your windows executables. Bottles is available too.

The only games I’m unable to play so far have been AAA games with unfriendly anticheat. ProtonDB helps here.

Echoing the other sentiments, it’s probably a good idea to hunt down why your system is having trouble because distro hopping might not fix it.

That being said I’ve recently been using bazzite and it’s been relatively smooth. You just have to learn a couple (easy) ways to do package management a little differently.

Some of the questions about distros don’t take into account those of us who have been using Linux since the mid-90s. Your scope here seems to be directed at the last decade or so.

RedHat 5.3 with fvwm (or fvwm95) is very nostalgic for me because it was one of the few walnut creek CDs I managed to get working. Mandrake and early SuSe were cute as well.

I’d wager it uses systemd considering Lennart Poettering works for Microsoft.

The distinction is irrelevant and “AI” is what businesses and normal folks call this stuff. Just like the age old arguments that the media should say something like “cyber criminals” instead of “hackers” or “cloud” is just other people’s computers. LLM, GNU/spicy-auto-correct, whatever. To the populous it’s all “AI”.

I absolutely love it. Easy to find newer versions of things than what’s in my distro’s repos, easy to update. The only snags I’ve encountered is sometimes (very rarely) a program won’t have access to part of my storage or my system’s dark theme isn’t applied. The former is super rare and the latter is usually 5min of searching the web to remember how to change the theme for a flatpak.

EDIT: after reading some of the other comments, I should mention that I only use it for GUI applications. I’ve not yet tried any TUI/CLI applications as flatpaks.

I used a pro 7+ for a while with Fedora on it and it ran just fine. The stylus worked generally well, too. Eventually I put Win 11 back on it to be able to use the camera (it was not yet supported by the linux-surface project and still may not be?) and it worked well enough with WSL that I kept it that way. I generally spent my time in firefox and windows terminal with little to no trouble at all (after de-clawing windows the best I could).

Note that the keyboard is about what you’d expect for such a flat thing. I’m pretty sure it’s rubber dome and not butterfly switches. It’s not a great experience but it’s no worse than your average laptop.

I couldn’t agree with this comment more! cod:m is a blast and runs on a lot of devices, even google-free ones.

By having “the masses”, they can simply force things by not federating themselves. Email was already brought up and still federates but xmpp is a prime example where Facebook and google acquired a bunch of users and then walled off their access to federation. It all but killed xmpp as a tool in regular use outside of technically inclined circles.

Love my XR15L but I don’t love going more than 55ish mph in turns with it due to the tires and upright nature of it. Hard to get any lean and feel comfortable with it. It tops out for me at about 65 on the highway. It rides like a dream on dirt roads here and it badly wants to sit in 4th gear.

Great little bike with some “cheap” parts. I.e. the drum brake in the rear, no abs, brush guards are just there for looks. Everything else is solid, though. The motor is hella reliable. They wouldn’t be as popular on the world market if they weren’t!

They certainly tried to load me up with HD gear and convince me to do the diner parades but that’s just not my thing. The instructors were really nice, though.

We have Monday off and I work from home maybe I’ll take a little ride to celebrate.

I’m new to motorcycles overall. I was always generally afraid of riding them, likely because most of the bikes I’ve seen were huge heavy monsters. I also strongly dislike a lot of the culture around it prevalent in my area: specifically midlife crisis faux 1%-ers and 20-somethings on crotch rockets that descend upon a nearby town once a year for a rally that just disrupts life in general. Many locals schedule their vacations outside of town around this time to avoid it. We also have some motorcycle “clubs” here that cause a bit of trouble. I say all of that to say I’ve found I enjoy “small” bikes.

I have been a bicycle fanatic for decades and use them for both transportation and leisure. In the past I’ve also enjoyed a couple of dirt bikes for brief stints. Recent events have left me car-less and my area is sort of sprawling with a lot of dirt roads around. I didn’t really have the money for a new car so I ended up mustering the courage to go to the Harley dealership an hour away to take classes to get my motorcycle endorsement. Shortly after that I purchased a Honda XR150L and it’s been my primary mode of transportation (save for a Honda Ruckus which was my gateway drug into motorbikes in general).

It’s not been too bad. I’ve surprisingly enjoyed the little dual sport and I just picked up a service manual for it so I’ll be able to do all my own wrenching with it, too. It’s got some cheap parts on it and it’s not very fancy but it gets the job done for sure. I love that it’s relatively old technology without any computers or other garbage for me to deal with. Just a carb’ed two stroke.

The aforementioned XR150L:

And the ruckus (not technically a motorcycle but relevant):