I know it’s been a joke for as long as I can remember, but I really think this year (or last) was the year of the Linux desktop. All the work done on proton has seemed to bring lots of gamers over who were tired of Windows bs.

I was trying to lookup stuff about mechanical keyboards on ddg earlier today, and several results on the first page were reddit threads. So it can definitely happen with some other hobbies/topics I imagine.

I’d add Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 to this as well, may be the best crpgs ever imo! Planescape and Baldurs Gate both use the infinity game engine if I recall correctly.

If you’re looking for something a little more modern but with a very similar feel to those, I really like Pillars of Eternity.

I personally like duck duck go, the results are generally pretty good, and if they aren’t, it’s easy to search on other engines using DDG’s bangs. You just type “!g search term” and you can search on Google, and there’s a bunch more, like !w for Wikipedia, !aur for the arch user repo etc etc

This is where I’m at as well. The thing I enjoyed most about reddit was the communities for various niche hobbies, which I think will be hard to replicate on lemmy given the smaller community.

But I really love the idea of using open source software and the idea of a federated internet. I’ll most likely stick around here unless everyone else leaves.

What should I do if I’m all out of bubblegum?!