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Does Hyprland work well for gaming compared to KDE? Can it do HDR, VRR and so on?

Always wanted to try a tiling WM but was afraid of losing features.

Is there something missing in OmniSharp that prevents you from using VSCodium?

I do most of my C# development with the OmniSharp plugin in VSCodium on Linux.

Helldivers works fine on Linux, I play it from time to time.

Ms office windows apps are kind of great compared to libreoffice

Did you give OnlyOffice a try? https://flathub.org/apps/org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors

VS Code (i know it's still MS but I do C# .NET work and rider is too expensive, I don't want a subscription for an IDE)

VSCodium is a thing too if you want to un-Microsoft even further.

https://vscodium.com/

I use it for C# development on Linux and it works well.

getting a password manager

Bitwarden and Keepass are usually the go tos, depending on your use case.

then a new browser

Firefox or if you want to decouple from Mozilla as well, Librewolf works pretty well.

potentially a Google pay replacement

I'm not aware of any open Google Pay replacements other than taking a card with you.

As soon as you get rid of Google on your phone, you get rid of Google Pay.

I wrote them once because one of the plastic clips on the back cover of my FP5 broke off.

I got a response after 3 days and a replacement part 2 days later. So pretty decent I would say.

Do you think Aurora is a good choice for beginners? A friend of mine wants to switch and I'm still looking for a good match.

It should be immutable, use KDE, have Nvidia drivers pre-installed (or a easy UI for installing them), not be maintained by a single maintainer and should not have non-OS applications like Steam pre-installed.

Aurora so far seems to be the best choice.

It's Unreal Engine 5, so you have the choice between bad performance or blurry graphics and noisy shadows.

You had me at "No Java".

I never heard of this game until it came out on Steam but I bought it on launch and was not disappointed. Really fun game.

Also, I noticed that the remaster update dropped today. Might just hop back in.

It's nice that they give the franchise another chance after the disaster of a launch the previous entry had. I really enjoyed it post-launch when most issues were fixed.

However, looking to "appeal to the mainstream" sounds like it might backfire and become a game for nobody. I'm cautiously optimistic for now.

Also, it's Epic exclusive so they can wake me up once it hits Steam or GOG for half the price.

That's a shame. Do you know what's broken?