PancakeBrock

I don't know what distro you are on. I had the same problem with 2 games. Stormworks and Cyberpunk 2077. I'm on Arch and installed nvidia-prime from the AUR. Then for just those two games in the steam launch options I put prime-run in there. That fixed the problem for me. I did use nvtop to verify that it was using the igpu instead of my GTX 1060.

When stormworks was running on the igpu it was at 3fps. Now it's buttery smooth. No other games I play have had that issue.

I did a bunch of reading before jumping into Arch so I just used archinstall. Made it nice and easy.

My answer for #2 is I have never personally had a problem with Linux on a laptop. Everything works as intended. The only funny thing was when I switched to Arch Linux took a little bit of work to get games to use my Nvidia GPU instead of the integrated one in my CPU. But that was maybe 30 minutes of googling and installing stuff off the AUR. When I ran pop_os it worked right out of the box. I believe pop has all of the Nvidia stuff installed and on Arch I just had to figure out what I needed. That problem was just from lack of experience.

My answer for #3 is I don't know but I've had fun testing different software out to find something that suits me. I want to say way back in the day Ubuntu had a bunch of stuff pre installed. But that was probably 2007 when I last used Ubuntu. On Arch you can just use the discover store to find stuff. If you can't find it there it's in the AUR.

#4 rooting on Linux isn't like rooting on Android. Android is built off Linux so to have "root" access is just like having administrator access or whatever on Windows. Android phones are more locked down so it's usually a pain to root (the manufacturer don't really want you to do it). On your own Linux computer you just use root access. For example on Arch in the terminal to do a full system update you have to use root access so you type "sudo pacman -Syu" in the terminal then it asks you for the sudo password or root password that you yourself setup on install. Sudo is the command that says hey I want to do this no questions asked.

#5 it's Linux you can do whatever you want. You can go through and destroy the entire os if you want.

I'm coming on a year being full time on Linux so that's about the best I can do answering your questions. I'm sure other people will explain stuff better. Good luck!

I'm the first guy in my family to actually have facial hair and the first one to start balding haha. My dads hair is pretty thick and he gets a tiny mustache. My grandpa's hair wasn't bad before he passed away in his 90s and really nothing for facial hair. Never met my great grandpa but he was chickasaw and the few pictures I've seen he has very thick hair.

In the next few years it'll be to the point where I start shaving. It's right on top where it's getting really thin and I'm 6'2" so most people don't actually see it. The other day at a self check out it thought I didn't scan something and showed a top down camera view and I was like damn that's bad.

For years i've tried different distros on and off. Really liked arch on the steam deck and decided to give it a try. Haven't used windows in over a year. Don't know what it was but I'm loving arch with kde. Had a couple of things i had to figure out but all in all it was simple to get going.

Ive had a handfull of games that work on steam deck but had to tinker on my laptop. Cyberpunk would crash on the first splash screen and stormworks would only run on my igpu and not dedicated. But also im also using nvidia.

Same here. And 3 of my sisters.

My brother in-law built a kickass theater setup in his basement. All he plays down there is Madden.

As a guy who does concrete. Trees close to your house love to drive roots through your foundation. Trees are great but can really do some damage. Especially where I live. Ground water is about 80' or deeper. The tree roots here stay shallow and spread out everywhere.

Still rocking a gtx 1060 in my desktop and my laptop.

I never did it on steam but years back I contacted origin support and they let me register all my old ea games keys and still have them on the ea app. Not great but I thought it was cool.

They let me do all of them except battlefield Vietnam. They said they didn't have that one available to download at the time.

Construction Superintendent. But did IT work when I was younger haha.