I usually like to play as Inward Perfectionists, though I would like to try out Idyllic Blooms too.
Often also, I close borders to everyone except refugees, and kick out all Fanatics of the Authoritarian, Spiritualist, Xenophobe, and Militarist groups.
Pacifist, Materialist + Egalitarian is usually my way to go. For civics, I like to get Environmentalist and Shared Burdens.
Main reasons for taking those ethics and civics is partially ideological, and partially convenience. The extra stability (from Pacifist), research speed bonus (from Materialist) and faction unity gain (from Egalitarian) is simply too good to pass up.
I usually expand until I have 3-4 chokepoints left. Then I just sit it out and watch as empires fight each other. I keep a big military and good relations whenever possible, and that always has worked well for me. I like to view my empire as the people’s dream come true.
I haven’t played in a long while though, because my ol’ laptop gets a tad bit too hot, sadly.
So I might need to go look at a new one… the issue is, I’m considering shifting to Linux, but idk what distribution has:
good privacy
good security (also fairly up to date)
is suitable for gaming
is FOSS, of course
and hopefully, also has a UI similar to that of Macintosh. Or at least somewhat beginner-friendly, but definitely well-customisable.
Main reason is to get independent from US corporatism. I could try dual booting but I’ve never done that before, no idea how to do that.
Realistically any distribution will meet your list of requirements. All supported distros are brilliant for security and privacy (well, except for (Red Star OS)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS], but I’m sure that wasn’t on your short list anyways) there’s packages for Steam on basically every distro, and flatpaks make it easy to install other launchers on most distros too. Most desktop environments have a Mac-inspired preset as well
I’d say start with either Linux Mint for more general computing (it’s based on Ubuntu but excludes some of Canonical’s less popular changes to Ubuntu and ships with a more sane desktop environment) or Bazzite is the new hotness giving a very steamdeck-like experience with dedicated gaming mode or desktop mode. Their site appears to currently be experiencing some SSL issues though
I usually like to play as Inward Perfectionists, though I would like to try out Idyllic Blooms too.
Often also, I close borders to everyone except refugees, and kick out all Fanatics of the Authoritarian, Spiritualist, Xenophobe, and Militarist groups.
Pacifist, Materialist + Egalitarian is usually my way to go. For civics, I like to get Environmentalist and Shared Burdens.
Main reasons for taking those ethics and civics is partially ideological, and partially convenience. The extra stability (from Pacifist), research speed bonus (from Materialist) and faction unity gain (from Egalitarian) is simply too good to pass up.
I usually expand until I have 3-4 chokepoints left. Then I just sit it out and watch as empires fight each other. I keep a big military and good relations whenever possible, and that always has worked well for me. I like to view my empire as the people’s dream come true.
I haven’t played in a long while though, because my ol’ laptop gets a tad bit too hot, sadly.
So I might need to go look at a new one… the issue is, I’m considering shifting to Linux, but idk what distribution has:
Main reason is to get independent from US corporatism. I could try dual booting but I’ve never done that before, no idea how to do that.
Realistically any distribution will meet your list of requirements. All supported distros are brilliant for security and privacy (well, except for (Red Star OS)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS], but I’m sure that wasn’t on your short list anyways) there’s packages for Steam on basically every distro, and flatpaks make it easy to install other launchers on most distros too. Most desktop environments have a Mac-inspired preset as well
I’d say start with either Linux Mint for more general computing (it’s based on Ubuntu but excludes some of Canonical’s less popular changes to Ubuntu and ships with a more sane desktop environment) or Bazzite is the new hotness giving a very steamdeck-like experience with dedicated gaming mode or desktop mode. Their site appears to currently be experiencing some SSL issues though
for gaming it’s easiest to go with bazzite:
it’s based on fedora atomic and works really well out of the box!
also comes pre-installed with a few nice to have gaming utilities.
highly customizable and FOSS applies to all popular distros, afaik.
check it out here