Ngl I only played the PS4 for about a month to play Bloodborne before I gave it to my brother. I just kept one of the controllers.

I mainly played on PS3 for years from release and that was never a thing…

The console got plenty of updates but never the controller.

I have NEVER heard of any controller before this current generation needing firmware upgrades.

Even the launch model PS4 controller I use on my PC never asked for an update and still works fine…

I actually get forced to use a Chromebook at my current job but it doesn’t really change anything since all our software is “in the cloud” accessed through Chrome.

If you ever talk to someone who’s worked in a place offering data recovery. They’ve probably met a lot of people who’ve gone through exactly that.

A surprising amount of people have put up this mental wall separating “SteamOS” from Linux.

I’ve had this conversation with multiple people and it’s being brought up again because of the Steam Machine announcement.

Some (very few) legitimately didn’t know SteamOS was a Linux distro, Or they knew it was based on Linux but thought it used a whole different user ecosystem. Like how Android is technically Linux but using it is nothing like using desktop Linux. These people I’ve found are more willing to actually look into Linux after someone’s explained to them that SteamOS is just Linux. And that there’s even SteamOS-like Linux distros you can use right now!

Then you have those who are hard-line about having Official SteamOS. And most of the time they have some misguided believe along the line of, SteamOS is Linux but Valve has fixed all the “Linux issues”. And for a lot of them you’re probably not going to get far convincing them that mainline Linux isn’t just endless command lines these days.

not wanting to go through the process of backing up files

This was a big thing when I was helping some people with Windows 10s EOL, A lot of folks just don’t have a 2nd drive to back stuff up onto.

As a compulsive data-hoarder the idea of having everything on a single drive with no backup plan, local or “cloud” based… Terrifying! You could write a horror movie about it.

As if half the games on the Steam store weren’t repacks of mobile shovelware anyway.

Should note EndeavourOS is just Arch with an easier installer and slightly pre-configured with common dependencies installed out the box.

EndeavourOS + KDE is what got me daily driving Linux and even after using vanilla Arch for 2 months at one point, I went back to EndeavourOS because it was just less hassle.

I also used Notepadqq for the first year I used Linux, I ended up switching to Kate since it did everything I liked about Notepad++ and it came installed with my KDE desktop soooo.

Also for the few times I gotta use a terminal text editor I use Micro (It really should be the default instead of Nano)