What's the fuss over an "installer"? You just need a folder with the game's files. If you really insist, that folder can be rolled up into a zip file dot exe.

Twitch dot tv

Sir, this is an AppleBees.

Yep, that's roughly what I'm seeing. If you're playing a very light game where the battery would have lasted 7 hours, you will definitely notice the extra drain. If you're playing a game where the battery was shooting for 3 hours, it makes very little difference.

Is it The End Of Days?

Is EA actually getting .. less shitty??

Btrfs, snapper, cp --reflink stuff back out of a snapshot.

Would you know a virus if you saw it?

Snaps (and flatpaks) have a much better way of handling DLL hell than good ol deb/rpm/pacman. As such, each app is better able to chase the latest version of all of its dependencies, without worrying about messing up the libraries for anyone else.

Snap/flatpak also sandbox their apps, reducing the blast radius of exploited or bad apps.

My personal preference is to use flatpak, and set it up so that it is all --user. With a --user install, you don't need sudo to update anything. Use Flatseal to tighten up or loosen the sandbox, use Warehouse to roll back any broken updates. I don't think snap has any tools like Flatseal or Warehouse, which makes it the weaker packager.

Anything that can be installed as a flatpak, I do it there first. Then I can just pick up my home directory, drop it in a different distro, and almost all of my stuff follows. A distro becomes little more than "a kernel, a compositor, a baseline desktop environment, and some background daemons".

It's a miracle that the battery is still working at ten years. The most realistic thing is to just keep up with your backups, and be ready to dispose of that laptop the moment the battery starts swelling.

TLP is my favourite tool for messing with the charge limit. And also far, far too many power/thermal management knobs.

I use Ubuntu, which is apparently the least popular distro around.

It's a shame that Valve couldn't get Steam to issue them a new AppID, so they had to delete CSGO in order to put CS2 on the store. It was the only way.