Honestly the easiest way is just getting a Dolphinbar, It has the correct bluetooth adapter built into it. I got mine in the UK from eBay and after installing BlueZ and tinkering with some settings I got it to work perfectly with my launch model Wii mote + nunchuck.

I’ve only used it for normal Wii mote mode in Dolphin, But it has a mode to use it as a mouse + keyboard or generic gamepad.

You can disable the search feature from the address bar completely by adding these to your about:config

keyword.enabled = false

browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches = false

half out of habit.

But also I have search on the search feature disabled on the address bar so I’m not randomly sending search quires when I mistype a url.

I mean it also depends on the gamemodes you play?

Kind of the reason I preferred playing Free for All over Team Deathmatch on Call of Duty, because if I lost, all I had to blame was myself and not the amoebas on my team giving the other team free points by only doing 360s off the crane for the whole game.

Also might be why I fell out of love with Battlefield after BF1, The game itself was great (wish I could still play it on Linux…) but you could tell there were a lot of new comers to the franchise who just ignored all the objective and teamplay aspects. I still find decent squad play on BF4 & 3 to this day.

I find it funny how common menu replacements are on Windows nowadays. I used to run ClassicShell/OpenShell back when I used Windows 10, but I was the odd one and no one else I talked to even knew about it.

Now I know more than a handful of people who daily drive RetroBar or something similar on Windows 11. Even if they’re not the type of person who typically customize their setups. Guess that’s just a sign of how bad M$ has been screwing up their UX design lately.

If I’m looking for information that doesn’t need to be super recent/up to date, I just limit my search results to before November 2022 at least.

It’s the “nuclear option” but it’s worked for me a handful of times.

Now just wish DDG let me have that filter for the images tab to make finding new wallpapers easier for me…

When I was first looking into Linux I asked the only friend I knew who used it and he unironically recommended me Arch…

A year later I actually gave Arch a try, but by then he apparently hated Arch and switched to Gentoo and I stopped asking him for advice at that point.

I already had a strong reaction when the term ‘Influencer’ popped up. At first it sounded like a marketing term that felt more like an insult to label someone as.

Then people started proudly proclaiming themselves Influencers and it’s only gotten worse since…

You underestimate the tab hoarders.

I’m also like you where I barely have more than a few tabs open. But I regularly witness people I know fill the tab bar until you can’t read the first 3 letters of the title anymore.

It really should be.

Battlefield 4 still works on Linux and we always been more transport pilots…especially on Flood Zone.

Pop!_OS in early 2023, I used it for about 3 weeks before my bootloader broke so bad even Pops own recovery tool couldn’t fix it. I went back to Windows 10 for another month before trying again with EndeavourOS and haven’t had to use Windows since.

Funnily the thing that triggered me to install Linux on a spare SSD was I couldn’t play Battlefield 4 on my Windows install anymore because the EA app randomly stopped working even after reinstalling the whole thing, Got the EA app and BF4 working on Pop within an hour.

I’ve only had like 3 games from FitGirl not work fine installing with Lutris.

2 of them needed some dependency like .NET installed first, and only one I could get working at all but the DODi version worked fine.

Everyone kept telling me Wine sucks even before I switch to Linux. But I’ve had it work fine a lot more times than not, even for some old obscure software that barely works on Windows 10 anymore.

I’m still a relative newcomer and switched fully in 2023 after having zero experience with Linux before that year.

I feel like I’ve only just gotten comfy with regular Linux and don’t feel like reworking my setup around the quirks of an atomic distro.

And if you count the Steamdecks “SteamOS” then the only time I’ve remembered it isn’t standard Arch is when it’s “atomicness” is forcing me to do workarounds for something that I can easily do on my Arch based desktop.

But I’d give NixOS a try if their docs page didn’t block my VPN when literally no other FOSS or Corpo site does…

Honestly might be the other way around for me. I was mainly a multiplayer guy for the longest time but most franchises I was invested in quickly went down the drain and a lot of the newer battle-royal style shooters didn’t appeal to me.

Started mainly playing older games that had been on my backlog for a while. And videos of the Steamdeck running them games started popping up.

So since I already hated Windows 10 from the start and I didn’t need my PC to run the latest AAA multiplayer games anymore, seemed like a better time than ever to switch.

I still play some multiplayer with Battlefield 4 and Battlebit Remastered. (R.I.P Battlefield 1 and Ironsight on Linux though…)

EndeavourOS because someone said it was Arch for lazy people, and I’m a lazy people.

I did use vanilla Arch before for a while, but just ended up being more work for the same setup with more issues from stuff like missing dependencies I didn’t have to worry about with Endeavour.

Only other distro I’ve used was Pop!_OS when I first tried out Linux.

Just without the ridiculous tie.

The Simpsons.

There’s something new to see every time! I’ve only just got back into watching the early seasons again recently.

Heavily depends on the game and how the patches are installed.

If the patch comes as an exe, on Lutris next to the Play button you’ll find a wine glass icon with a menu next to it, you can use ‘Run EXE inside Wine prefix’ to run the patch installer and I’ve had it work most of the time. Sometimes you’ll need a .NET dependency which you can install through Winetricks using the same menu.

A lot of patches for older games require DLL files which you have to manually declare in Wine, One again in that Wine glass menu you’ll fine ‘Wine Configuration’ and in the Libraries tab of that, you declare what DLLs you need to “override”.

I don’t play either of those games you mentioned but I mainly play and mod older games these days and had pretty good luck running 95% of them through Lutris. You just sometimes have to find workarounds.

Think most people just use ROM as a catch all for “console video game format” these days.