MrBubbles96

It's not so much the dice rolls that are the problem...but, they kinda are...let me try and explain what i mean

It isn't so much that going back to Morrowind's style of gameplay is a bad thing. Like you said, a lot of games do that and do it well, even today (Baldur's Gate 3 does Dice Rolls for everything too, and its great) it's more of is Bethesda going to keep it intact (either completely or modernize it) and risk potentially alienating the part of the fans that have only played Skyrim (A large part of players, at least from what I've seen) or are they going to scrap it and replace it with a more Oblivion/Skyrim system, thus potentially alienating the ones that are wanting an Elder Scrolls game to go back to when there were tangiable RPG mechanics in there (and that's not assuming they don't try and have it both ways...IDK how that'd look, but if you try pleasing everyone, well...).

Did that make sense? I'm kinda running on an energy drink and a dream atm

But really, i think it's more of they looked at Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, and just went "out of those 3, Oblivion's the one that could use the tuneup the most" (again, it's the redhead middle child, sandwiched between the much more universally loved Skyrim and respected older Morrowind).

I can kinda see why they went with Oblivion. For one, Morrowind would be harder to do because it relies heavily on invisible dice rolls and she stats of you vs the enemy for...basically everything. From hit chance, to if your spell is succesfully cast, to how much damage your armor (or the enemy's) eats up. Unless they gut that entire system and do a more modernized one instead (like Oblivion/Skyrim's)

Another reason i wanna say they picked Oblivion is because, frankly, it's the middle redhead child of the "modern" elder scrolls main games. Everyone praises Morrowind and Skyrim, but Oblivion....yeah. I love it, it was what Skyrim was to many players, but yeah it can be rough in a lot of aspects. Sometimes even more so than Morrowind (YMMV. I could easily get used to Morrowind, even vanilla. Everytime i go back to Oblivion, I have to make myself look past the roughness to see the good stuff).

IDK, i see this as a great second chance for the game...and, foolish it may be but, I'm also hoping they restore Cyrodiil to the jungle it was hyped up to be in Morrowind and the pocket guides since the tech is there now, plus they no longer have to cash in on the Lord of the Rings movies. They won't. But i can dream.

Pamac (either pamac-all or pamac-all-no-snap). You can go with Octopi if you want, but pamac should more than meet your needs--and personally, I like it better.

Manjaro is....tricky.

I've called it an Arch based distro that kinda sucks at being an Arch based distro before, and I stand by that. You can't treat Manjaro like you would EndeavourOS or Vanilla Arch Linux because of how Manjaro decides to do things: essentially, updates are held back by a couple of weeks for better and worse instead of being released as they're made avaliable. While that means it can catch disastrous things like the GRUB issue another user pointed out (Manjaro was unaffected by it IIRC), it also means the system is prone to breaking itself more often. You can forget about using the AUR if you're using Manjaro–or well, you can, but the AUR and Manjaro are nortorious for not playing nice with one another because of the latter's tendencies to hold back packages.

Personally, I wouldn't recomended. I had more trouble with Pop_Os!, yeah (even tho i can admit that's my favorite spin of Gnome 3), but Manjaro just tested my patience more than anything else. However, If you don’t mind being extra careful with what you install (really that’s standard practice for any distro, but hey, I’ve never found a WIP package that messed up my system anywhere other than when using Manjaro, so make of that what you will), are willing to tolerate constant mild to severe breakage, and just using Flatpaks and appimages over the AUR, then give Manjaro a try.

That Arch basically tanks a lot of those problems so that other rolling distros don't deal with them is something that i hadn't considered till now, tho you are right there.

Yeah, I've tried going to Tumbleweed or other distros, and I just keep coming back to my XFCE + Arch combo. Dunno, it just speaks to me ig.

I wouldn't go as far as calling Arch the antithesis of easy (tho you are right that it's like a toddler you have to constantly babysit. Don't like that part, but I wanna say that's most rolling releases, no? Plus I haven't found a stable release that i jive with either, so nothing left but to tolerate it), but then again, that varies from person to person. After all, I struggled much more with Pop_Os! (in general) and Fedora (more growing pains than anything) than I ever did with Arch, and I'm an idiot when it comes to computers--pretty good at looking up answers to problems tho lol

Issues are pretty mixed IMO. There are ones beyond our control like the GRUB one and the backlight one, can't really do much about them (but I'm not gonna pretend it's only an Arch thing. Every distro messes up once in a while) except sit tight until there's a fix...or well, you could try and fix it yourself, but then we lead to the other thing, in my expierence, anyways: 90% of issues happen because the user messed with something. Not even something obvious, i mean mucking about within the systems guts for one reason or another without knowing what you're doing. I've since adopted a golden rule: you don't bother the PC, it doesn't bother you. Personally, haven't had problems besides the backlight one, and even that was fixed quickly.

Regarding Tumbleweed and Fedora, they're good options, but installing nvidea drivers isn't super straightforward. Would have still recommended Fedora, or even better, Mint if they hadn't said they were looking for a Rolling Release, actually. Nobora should be easier, or so I've heard. Never actually tried it myself.

So, what I wanted was a faster, rolling-release, easy-to-use with easy installation of Nvidia proprietary drivers

EndeavourOS. It's Arch-based, so it's a rolling release, the install Nvidea driver option is right on the boot menu when you first install, it's easy to use (and easy to install) and has a Wecome tool to help you navigate if you're not used to Arch. And, at least in my experience, it's fast

There's some drawbacks tho. It's on the lighter side: good if you wanna pick and choose what you wanna have on your system, not so good if you want something that's ready to go OOTB. Another thing is most of the action takes place in the Terminal, hence the "terminal-centric distro" thing. That's easily fixable tho, since you can either re-enable your Discover shop (KDE), the Gnome software center's already good to go, or just install Octopi or Pamac if you really don't wanna use the terminal for stuff.

Give it a go if you. It cured my distrohopping and basically ensured I'll never go back to Windows (long term anyways. Temporarily, well, sometimes you gotta).

"Seriously, why is it such a confusing prospect to Linux users that Linux is difficult?"

Because honestly? It really isn't. A couple of years ago, maybe it was hard, but now, Linux is easy to pickup and learn; so easy even someone like me who has zero programming/coding skills (not my profession) and still kinda thinks typing stuff into the terminal is basically black magic was able to pick it up and adopt it with very little hiccups and set it up for my ma on a seperate computer with no problems on her end. Unlearning Windows? That's the hard bit, especially if you go into Linux (or even Mac, as was the case with me a long time ago) thinking it's Windows with another skin instead of different beast althogether that has it's own quirks one needs to get used to, just like with anything new (and just how the majority are used to Windows's own quirks). That's where you'll start having a bad time.

"Decking" brought to mind someone punching someone else at first lol

Still, I'm still firmly on Team Toast NGL (context: someone here suggested the new term be toast, just because)

+1 for Toast

I just don't like how you get around in an iphone. Admittedly, I haven't used Macs in a very long time, so maybe they're pretty good nowadays (I still hear you can't upgrade them at all tho, sooo...maybe not?), but most of it comes down to me feeling lost navigating the thing.

The other thing is how expensive Apple Products are in comparison to the competition, and the walled garden thing they got going on. Androids are just easier to move around in, cheaper, and give me more control over my device. That's the other big thing that steers me away from iphones: I pay more for a "premium" product and get a lack of control over it.

On android: If I wanna not use the Play Store, I can ignore it and use something else, if I don't like the stock apps, i can look for replacements that do suit my tastes (tbf, I can do this on Apple too, but there isn't much by comparison), if I wanna install a custom ROM, I can install it, if I wanna root the thing and sideline apps while I'm at it, I can, if I want to brick my phone...I'm an idiot, but I have that option. I can do none of that, or do some of it in a limited way, on an iphone.

Pretty much, I don't like how unintuitive the UI is, how restricting the system feels to me, and the company's overall anti consumer stance

....or they can do all that and switch to a distro that's not prone to breaking itself every other update.