I actually love the concept of open world games. Ive sunk tons of hours into skyrim, oblivion, fnv, far cry 4, witcher 3, gta v, etc.
But now so many games want to be open world when they dont need to be. I loved the shit out of old school halo and never once thought damn i wish this was open world
I use qksms from fdroid. I did not even realize they have premium features. Its a great app
How would you determine the configs that were modified? What do you mean put down?
For the automating of reinstalls what do you mean?
Is it just a playbook that installs the distro, them installs the same packages, and then restores things like /home from backup?
I recommend bodhi linux. I was looking for something similar to arch and i think this is a good alternative. I have been using it for about 3 years now and had no serious issues. They recently updated to 7.0 and now the packages are much more up to date.
It is based on ubuntu 22.04 and uses apt as a package manager. I find installing nix package manager alongside it can help get any packages it doesnt have, but i havent really had much issue with that since moving to 7.0
Its designed to run on old hardware, and i can vouch it works fine on a system with 2gb ram so it will not use much resources.
It comes with thunar as manager and terminology as terminal. I have also used pcmanfm and mate terminal on the system and they work fine as well.
It uses moksha desktop environment which is a fork of enlightenment but i have also used lxde on it as well and switching was not hard.
I dont really game on it since it is on low end hardware but it should have no problem with retroarch on a more powerful system.
It has synaptic package manager for gui installs but tbh i haven't really used it since i use cli for that. You shouldn't have any trouble installing flatpak on it as well. And you should be able to use obs on it (tho i haven't tried)
I would say this distro should do most of what you want extremely lightweight and mostly out of the way (don't really get notifications on it).
It requires a bit of tinkering at first because it is minimalist and only ships with the minimum required packages but this gives the option to put the packages only you want on there. But once you're set up you really won't have to change anything
I'm not one hundred percent on the train of immutable, however, i have undertakes nixos and don't user flatpak/snap. The nix configuration file is where i install everything.
But while.i agree its not super hard to switch DEs on something like ubuntu etc. But one cool thing on nix (which i think you can do on any distro with nix package manager installed) is that you can test the package without installing it at all. The roll bavk id also nice cuz ive had situations where apt gets "broken" ive always been able to fix it with a little searching but its always frightening. Knowing that nix can go back to an old config at anytime makes me a little more comfortable
Thief no doubt
I use bash-it and set it to powerline theme
I just rsync my home dir to a backup and then rsync it to a new machine
Its for privacy. This way youtube doesnt get your ip and has more difficulty figuring out who you are
And the thing is i dont mind a game trying it out. Witcher 3 and elden ring trying open world came out excellent but so many games just tack on a giant world that ends up being a collectathon or a bunch of fetch quests. Padding out games with a bunch of bullshit is just stupid