uv is good but it needs a little more time in the oven.

For the moment I would definitely recommend poetry if you are not a library developer. Poetry’s biggest sin is it’s atrocious performance but it has most of the features you need to work with Python apps today.

Maybe check out Kagi’s ultimate tier. They let you swap between some of the different options to see which you might find useful. As a bonus you also get kagi search which can be useful.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html

There are more rolling release distributions like tumbleweed.

I use endeavour because I like Arch but don’t need to be bothered installing it the arch way more than once.

Is it just my hardware?

It is not your hardware

Am i using linux just wrongly for years?

Not really

Is it my fault?

Not really

The main issue from what I can tell is you are trying to play older windows games which can be pretty hit or miss. More recent pc games often support the steam deck which is usually a good sign for compatibility.

Gaming on Linux has greatly improved over the last couple years (especially thanks to proton/steam deck) but if you are trying to run older games that were never designed to run to it or you want to play online games with aggressive anti-cheat it is still going to be a bit of a struggle.

I would recommend sticking to an Arch based distro like EndeavourOS (as it is similar to the SteamOS) or a Debain based distro and not swap around too much so you can get a feel for it without having a bunch of things change on you all the time like package names and the like.

All that said if your jam is older windows games and you have access to windows and are tired of messing with the OS and just want to play games just use windows, try linux another day.

Some games are trickier than others for sure. Are you using protondb as a reference?

Anno 1404 is a 15 year old game with aggressive DRM so I could tell right away that it would be one of the more tricky titles.

It really comes down to if you are trying to use newer hardware or not. Debian based systems usually run fine out of the box on older systems.

For newer hardware your going to want new drivers and kernel versions which you get with a rolling release distro.

Over the network can be hit or miss but the usb cable and the drivers from the AUR have yet to fail me

I’ve been trying fin Droid which works well but it’s definitely a work in progress.

This is reported as a percentage and that’s what is tripping people up here.

You are not seeing a drastic rise in Linux usage you are seeing a large decrease in the use of desktop computers.

Linux is increasing because the only ones left using desktops are Linux users.

I mean that is true but there is some nuance.

At one time it was a cheap way to protect your site from drive by scripts and make your users help pay for that protection.

They still work in that way on say the comment section of a tiny WordPress blog because the cost to solve them isn’t worth what a random boner pill ad is worth.

The issue now (made worse recently by LLMs) is that more bots then ever are scraping any and every thing so people are putting captchas on every bit of every web app content they have. This increases the work of your users while it only slows down the bots. The hope is that the cost to solve is slightly higher than the value of the data.

I enjoyed the first two. Missed the third one. Maybe I’ll pick it up for a rainy day.

Windows decline has nothing to do with any of the actual features.

It is declining because fewer people are buying PCs anymore. Every one is using a mobile device or tablet.

This is also the reason they are squeezing windows harder to make up for the down turn.

As a casual baseball fan I like the pitch clock, keeps things moving along aha.

I actually think coed would be more interesting. You could have a female pitcher for the women and a male pitcher for the men.

It would add another depth of strategy about which positions are played by which players.

Were they not taking bets on college games?

Care to elaborate?

I use the app from the AUR and I don’t think I’ve had a single problem in 3 years.

I do enjoy the rust compiler error messages. They are nicely formatted

Heh logically designed Linux software might not be as abundant as you think but you’ll get used it.

Xorg(and the x server protocol) is very old and like most long lived software has quite a few warts and quirks.

Wayland has been “the future” for like 10 years (though it’s quite a bit older). It’s only now starting to reach a critical mass where things are starting to change so it might feel a bit of a mess at the moment.

You might say he was very svelte

The word cancelled has lost all meaning.