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I’d recommend you stick with Pop, since you’re already familiar with it.

Endeavour is a great introduction to the Arch world if you’re interested in trying it.

Bazzite is a popular recommendation if you’re going to be gaming.

Question 1 should be “Are you a beginner?” Answering Yes makes the answer Mint regardless of other answers.

Edit: Answering No should allow other outcomes of course, but still allow Mint to be the result if it’s a good fit.

As far as I understand, Bazzite is a version of Universal Blue, which is a fork of Fedora Atomic.

I don’t think any of that is disappearing any time soon, though I did read something about Universal Blue no longer autobuilding a bunch of different spins of the system or something. Would that be what you’re thinking of?

Consider Bazzite.

Yeah that’s fair.

The Ubuntu version does have all of Mint’s tools and stuff. Pretty sure the Debian edition is missing the Driver Manager and maybe some others.

Which technically makes it the best, doesn’t it?

Linux Mint has a Debian Edition (LMDE) if you ever wanted a Debian that Just Works.

I’m a performance mode type myself. The games look good enough so I want them running smooth.

If emulation is an option you could play some classics on your phone if it helps.

Sorry for your situation. Hope the future looks better.

Sorry to hear. It is a bit of an issue trying to work with these proprietary, closed systems. Sometimes it works and other times it just doesn’t.

I had success with one old model of Xiaomi band and not with another. There are all kinds of hacks and workarounds with modified versions of the Mi Fitness app to get it working on some models and it may or may not work for you.

Start here and hopefully you can get it working.

Grim Dawn is a similar concept with a different story if you’re looking for something similar as well.

Pretty sure some of the original Titan Quest team worked on it if I remember correctly.

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both seem to have quite a few users. Maybe they’d work for you?

If you’re up for ARPGs, something like Titan Quest or Grim Dawn have many hours worth of gameplay.

Worth looking at as well is anything in the Monster Hunter series. World and Rise are both amazing along with their expansions and Wilds just recently released.

All of my recommendations are long-term games with many hours worth of playtime.

Nah the Lenovo was absolute hot garbage. And most of my hatred for Samsung is aimed at phones more than tablets.

Like you said, for the average person the tablets are fine, I’m just full of shit about it.

Agreed on getting used or going iPad if you wanted more as well.

Yeah it’s always a whole thing of steps and shit to get to something like that. Wish it were easier or just an option or something.

Been a while since I’ve looked honestly. But the fact that they’re either hard or impossible to flash with custom ROMs (on top of being expensive) in my experience just means I’ll never bother with them.

Hopefully someone else can chime in with more recent experience than me.

This very well may be OEM or custom ROM dependant.

Yeah I didn’t read it as a negative at all, but thanks for explaining anyway. Never got to the point of seriously trying tmux yet, but I will eventually. I understand it does more than just “tabs in your terminal”.