This. You’re not causing permanent damage to a child by letting them sleep in your bed. You don’t need an academic answer on what research says about this.

I don’t like it because my kids kick and move around, so I don’t want them to sleep in my bed.

The main advice for parenting should always be “you do you”.

At work, I’ve put a sticker next to my monitor that has a picture of a dumpster fire and the caption “the strongest steel is forged in the fire of a dumpster”,

This is a pointless conversation man. There are clearly plenty of Linux zealots on Lemmy. Noobs like me have had a hard time with Linux. I’ve never understood the argument that “my experience was different, so your experience is invalid”. Once someone learns about something, they forget what it’s like to have no knowledge of the thing.

The Linux community was reacting like this when Linus (from LTT) installed PopOS and tried to install Steam and it somehow wiped his desktop environment. Shit happens in Linux and the noob experience is brushed aside, while touting “the year of Linux”. I really don’t get it.

While you’re at it… Try Newpipe sponsor block on your Android phone.

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Here’s the current list I have that I’ve played/playing/plan to play through.

3DS: New Super Mario Bros 2, Kirby Planet Robobot, Super Mario 3D Land.

Gamecube: Legend of Zelda, The - The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine

GBA: Advance Wars (1+2), Super Mario Advance 4, Kirby - Nightmare in Dream Land

Mega Drive: Earthworm Jim (1+2), Streets of Rage 2, Lost Vikings, Micro Machines 2, Sonic and knuckles, Jungle Strike

N64: Golden Eye 007, Super Mario 64

PS1: Castlevania - Symphony of the Night, Grand Theft Auto 2, Legacy of Kain - Soul Reaver, Final Fantasy 7+8+9

PS2: Crazy Taxi, GranTurismo 4, Metal Gear Solid 2+3, Okami, Ratchet & Clank - Up Your Arsenal (all the Ratchet and Clank games actually), Shadow of the Colossus, Tony Hawks Underground 2, Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter

PS3: Everybodys Golf 6, Ratchet & Clank Future - A Crack in Time

PSP: Rock Band Unplugged, Blast Off, Disgaea - Afternoon Of Darkness, Final Fantasy Tactics - The War of the Lions, Grand Theft Auto - Chinatown Wars, Half-Minute Hero, Hotshots Tennis, LittleBigPlanet, Lumines 2, Mega Man - Powered Up, Mercury Meltdown, Patapon, PixelJunk Monsters - Deluxe, Puzzle Quest - Challenge of the Warlords, Space Invaders Extreme, Wipeout (Pulse+Pure), Daxter

SNES: Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, Tetris Attack.

PS Vita: Gravity Rush, Wipeout 2048, Geometry Wars 3

Wii: Bully, Cave Story, Donky Kong Country Returns, Geometry Wars Galaxies, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Rhythm Heaven Fever, Super Mario Galaxy (1+2), Super Paper Mario, Tetris Party Deluxe, Zack and Wiki

Arguably one of the best genres that retro games excelled at were longdrawn RPGs and I haven’t even started with those…if that’s your thing then I’ve missed off that entire genre here.

I’m glad it works well for you.

OpenSUSE is what helped me get past even more basic problems with getting my PC up and running, that’s why I stuck with it because I couldn’t even get this far on other distros. I’m on CachyOS now and can manage better now that I’ve learnt to troubleshoot some of the main issues.

Horizontal page scrolling. I want to be able to read massive documents by scrolling through side-by-side pages rather than scrolling up/down.

I’m glad it worked smoothly for you and it sometimes is a smooth effortless experience for some people; but if you want to “convert” people then you’ve got to be honest about the fact that people commonly face difficulties. I’ve commented about my Linux issues before and I can paste the comment again here to give an example:

One of the first issues I had problems with was figuring out what was wrong with Street Fighter 6 giving ultra low frame rates in multiplayer, but working fine in single player. It needed disabling of split lock protections in the CPU.

A recent update in OpenSUSE made the computer fail to boot half the time and made the image on the right half of the screen garbled. I rolled back to before the update and am using it without updating for a few weeks to see if the GPU driver problem gets ironed out (AMD GPU).

I installed VMware Horizon for my job’s remote work login and it fucked up my Steam big picture mode and controller detection. I didn’t bother trying to figure that out and just uninstalled VMware remote desktop.

I managed to install my printer driver, but manually finding the correct RPM file to install would not be tolerable for normies. Update: I’m using CachyOS now and the Brother website says Arch plainly isn’t supported. When I install the driver from AUR that’s specific to my printer, then it doesnt print and just spews out endless blank pages.

I still can’t get my Dualshock 3 controller to pair via Bluetooth despite instructions on the OpenSUSE wiki. I’ve stopped trying to troubleshoot that and use my 8BitDo controller instead.

I still can’t find a horizontal page scrolling PDF app.

Figuring out how to edit fstab to automount my secondary drives is not a process normies would be able to execute. I still can’t figure out how to use this to auto-mount my Synology NAS.

Plasma added monitor brightness controls to software and these seem to have disappeared for me now, and I can’t figure out why. It reappears intermittently, but then disappears when it feels like.

My KDE Plasma task bar widgets for monitoring CPU/GPU temp worked till I reinstalled OpenSUSE, and I can’t figure out why they’ve decided to not work on this fresh install. System monitor can see the temperature sensors just fine still. Update: this seems to have fixed itself (maybe through am update?).

Flatpak Steam app wouldn’t pick up controllers for some reason. Minor issue, but unnecessary jankiness.

My laptop fingerprint reader plainly isn’t supported.

Trying to set up dual boot kept destroying (I.e. making unbootable) either the Linux install or the Windows install. I have up eventually as I couldn’t figure out how to fix GRUB from the command line.

I’ve been trying to find a solution for keeping a downloaded synchronised copy of my online storage (Mailbox.org). Can’t figure out rsync. I get an error with Celeste and it doesn’t sync after the initial file install. Having a 2 way sync for online storage could be considered a pretty basic requirement these days and something Mailbox can easily suggest an app for in Windows.

People do not tolerate this amount of jankiness. And this doesn’t include the discomfort with relearning minor design differences between OS’s when switching. Linux is a bit of a battle with relearning and troubleshooting things that would never be problematic on Windows. I know we all love Linux, but allow people to be honest rather than being dismissive. I had over 2 decades of experience with Windows and it had its quirks and problems, but my preexisting familiarity with it made it much easier to use and troubleshoot.

Sure I know I’m a noob and not doing this right. But that’s the point…can someone with limited knowleddge still work this OS?

Linux is perfect for hardware that is old as hell.

I was you 18 months ago. It’s certainly achievable, even with a crazy busy schedule. Highly recommended that you go for it.

Here are the unpopular opinions that attract downvotes:

• adopting Linux is painful. Stuff breaks. Stuff doesnt work. You will be battling uphill, but hopefully you’ll find it worthwhile in the end.
• moving to Linux permanently wouldn’t have been possible for me without AI. Now you can ask AI and it will almost always solve the problem for you. In the old days, you’d just have forum posts saying “just compile the driver and do a 10 step process with terminal that you need to figure out from the wiki…noob”. But now, these previously system breaking problems are now easily solvable without spending the whole weekend on a single issue.
• don’t let go of Windows to start with. Put Linux on a secondary machine. Do not dual boot, you will break your installation and won’t be able to troubleshoot it and will have to do a full wipe (along with the time and data loss that comes with that).
• Don’t get caught up in the distro wars. Pick Linux Mint, or a similar very beginner friendly distro. I prefer KDE desktop so I would recommend something else… But don’t go for anything with even moderate difficulty.
• Check protondB.com for the games you play. Some don’t work on Linux (e.g. Apex Legends).

Flaming hot Doriros.

Gaming - go to protondb.com and look for the games you at regularly. If something g you at isn’t supported (mostly specific online multiplayer games) then you’re out of luck. Most games work seamlessly.

Watch some YouTube videos about people showing how to install Nvidia drivers to get an idea of how complicated it is.

Don’t Give Up. You Can Cuss The Whole Time Just Don’t Give Up.

Are you committed to using the R.Pi1? You could emulate on your computer or phone (connected to the TV) to have way more options.

How adept is your little one with games? My 4 year old loves any and all Mario games. He plays sitting on my lap. I celebrate his successes and he passes me the controller when he gets to a section too difficult for him. This is mostly with Mario 3D land (3DS) these days.

Uncontrollable urge to slap loins huh? I hear ya

You mean he could have rolled this to the top a dozen times already?

A dozen, a hundred… Impossible to tell.

Specify what “reasonably priced means”.

I’ve recently bought a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro (£120) and would highly recommend it. Emulates up to PS2 and Wii, and amazingly emulates many Switch games. Comes with Android so this open up the option for loads of native Android games with controller. This plays GameCube games well, has great battery life, great portability, WiFi and Bluetooth, halls effect joysticks, nice buttons and d-pad and is a great all-rounder. I neglected my Steam Deck for a couple of months after I got this. It cost £120 on eBay (you might be able to bargain down further if you’re patient and keep a look out).

Prices are dropping because the Retroid Pocket 5 is out and is a huge upgrade (this is the console I would recommend if you’re looking for a stronger and more future proof option, but it costs about £200). If you’re looking to save a few bucks then you could go for the Retroid Pocket 4 (non-pro) or Retroid Pocket 3+…but I wouldn’t recommend those as worthwhile savings.

The other commenter is correct in saying your cheapest existing option will be your current phone with a controller.

The other recommendations for £300+ devices makes no sense to me, but that depends on how far you want to push your budget and if you want the console to do other things.

There’s a world of options out there and you need to be more specific with what sorts of games you enjoy. I’ve been emulating on my Switch for a while, but also recently bought a dedicated retro emulation console so I have quite a few recommendations.

For games that are literally still up to modern standards, you can go back to Wii, 3DS, PS Vita, PS3 and beyond and you’ve basically got games that will still hold up just fine.

For older games: PSP, PS2, SNES and GBA are gold mines of content.

I’ve found it difficult to get into PS1, N64 and Dreamcast gaming. This was a time when 3D graphics were just starting to be widely used and are so very dated. It’s difficult to look past the terrible graphics without nostalgia goggles. I’ve had more success in going back to SNES and Mega Drive games… At least they have great pixel graphics with suitable games (side scrollers, platformers, etc).

For specific games, I find it best to go to metacritic and look at their list of all time best games, and limit by console and then work through the best every reviews. This does miss a lot of games though and if you say what sort of games you like then people can make recommendations. There are tons of hidden gems and niches… Rhythm games, block drop, quirky puzzle games, etc. E.g.:

Everybody’s Golf 6 (PS3) - excellent arcadey golf game

Mercury Meltdown (PSP) - puzzle game about manipulating mercury blobs. Great to play entirely with the Steam Deck gyroscope.

GTA China Town wars (PSP) - top down GTA game, modernised beyond the GTA2 controls

Rhythm Heaven Fever (Wii) - excellent rhythm games

Super Mario 3D land (3DS) - 2.5 D Mario. Really solid platformer.

Wipeout 2048 (PS Vita) - solid combat racer

Micro machines 2 (Mega Drive) - quirky top down racer. Excellent for multiplayer.

Crazy Taxi (PS2) - taxi driving, really crazy though

Nipples can stand out a bit, but my man nipples also aggressively point through my shirt at anyone I’m talking to.

Does going bra-less need campaigning? Is this controversial? Are people giving women attitude for this?