I’m wondering if something like a PiHole can “fake” a connection for these devices.

I’ve tested many fdroid launchers and the best one for me is kvaesito, good customization and stable; in the past I always used KISS since I liked that experience but it feels a little dated todays, and kvaesito can replicate it pretty good.

pair that with an 8bitdo M30 and you have nearly perfect experience until 4th gen gaming

A CRT is mandatory for videogames! Also many old audio stuff is superior in quality, like old portable CD players or wired headphones, it doesn’t surprise me that many people today still want vintage tech.

I understand your aesthetically question who take care of the history of user interface design: many DE you’ll find on Linux are inspired by Windows and Mac OSs, and so typically Gnome is more near to mac while KDE to windows; keep in mind both are completely customizable. There are also other original Linux interfaces who brings something more exotic (old Ubuntu Unity or window managers like i3-wm) but most of these are used by few since UI’s comfort tend to unify everything.

Addendum: I really liked the old KDE4 with it’s beautiful and peculiar tablet view, now abandoned

Commercial OS tend to unify everything in a single name, Windows is the OS and - for example - the DE may be considered “metrostyle”. The distribution is Linux + selected packages (also DEs)

Never, I’m in EU and I don’t travel that much, pirating since 2000s

EasyEffects

EasyEffects is very complete if you need advanced stuff.

I do like Fennec since it’s available on F-Droid and updated, ublock origin mandatory in any case.

It’s like having a “double check” from a trusted source, they compile selected stuff from the aur so I suppose it’s a little more safe for the random user.

That’s another reason I like cachyos: they have a curated list of aur pkgs in their repo.

It should actually be a rule to put some text in a text based platform.

This is another reason on why dodi / fitgirl repacks are so popular, they are masters on this.

Always use native pkgs if possibile (so use pacman/paru)

Runit is softly better but Systemd is perfectly fine. I would prioritize runit on very old hardware.

It looks interesting, Void is very solid but it miss some package and I’m not a fan of flatpaks, also the focus on KDE is nice.

[edit]

I searched thru packages page: a lot of useful stuff missing

I’ve made a guide for repacks: https://slrpnk.net/post/12840703

Matrix feels like fake decentralyzation: it still used in the og server for 99% of the time?

Wut