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  • I’ll tell you what it is. Freedom.

    We can make servers, host servers, have our own communities and set our own rules. Hell, I haven’t played a Valve server in five years.

    Overwatch isn’t a matter of better or worse. It fails to do, at base value, what I value TF2 for, freedom.

    Add however many neat little gameplay mechanics you want, if I can’t play the game the way I want to, I’m not going to get into it or care.

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  • Consider each distro like a house of kung-fu.

    We are all hitting dummies, we are all practicing falls, drops, and stances, but we have different names, cultures, methods and ideas of getting those same goals done.

    So what’s the benefit of having programs each installed in separate locations that are wildly different?

    Installing an Appimage or flatpak almost entirely leaves that program inside your Home folder, meaning, if you were to reinstall your base system, even a different distro… within reason, those apps would still continue to function, all of their libraries and connections made within a folder that didn’t change.

    Linux is about aversion to risk. On Windows, you’d backup and restore your entire system. Linux brings into question what you consider “your system”. Some distributions can be entirely rebuilt from the ground up via a text file’s instructions and nothing else.

    My main desktop can be back up and running from a complete SSD failure in 20 minutes, a combination of backups and a saved Archlinux installation config for that system.