This, and specifically, you can also try disabling steam in game recording for whatever game is giving you trouble. I have found it to nuke performance in some games similar to what you are describing.

+1. Made the switch when mullvad lost port forwarding. Works quite well with Gluetun

There’s a direct comparison right in Canada. Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP, did the exact same thing (lost his seat, stepped down as leader)

You might have missed a word in the title. They’re looking for single player.

-Sy is recommended against. -S or -Syu, but not -Sy

FYI: This break and fix also applies to the Arc Raiders playtest currently happening.

Pretty wild that they had a one day turnaround on the fix.

Downvote without explanation. Nice!

I have also come across Windscribe, which seems reasonably well respected. Sadly, they make you pay extra for a static IP and port forwarding.

AirVPN has a lot of people complaining about connection speed.

Options are drying up 😢

Also curious. I left Mullvad because they stopped supporting port forwarding. Proton seemed like the best second option privacy/feature/price wise at the time. IVPN was touted highly around that time, but it appears they have also phased out port forwarding

You’re sick, he’s sick, we’re all sick! SICK!

Yeah, I suppose that may be it. Thanks for the insight.

Am I missing something? Nothing in the ML thread you were in reads remotely close to flaming to me.

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Debian has all the updated packages one needs for gaming just as well as the other distros.

Yes and no, but I agree with the overall sentiment. Debian is entirely fine for gaming.

People in this thread have very interesting ideas of what “shit hardware” is

You son of a bitch, I’m in.

I’ve become a big fan of mini PC’s for home server use these days (with NAS systems for storage duties). Low power, low heat, low noise, and very affordable.

Beelink on Amazon makes a good selection of them. Always watch for sales. I have several of their machines and have been pleasantly surprised by all of them. The latest addition was one of their N95 systems with 8GB of memory. It hosts Jellyfin, Deluge, Wireguard (client and server), dns, forgejo, etc.

Its not as easy as launching from steam

Nonsense! Often adding as a non-steam game and using proton is one of the fastest ways to get up and running!

But yeah, it’s trivial

There hasn’t been a packaged release in a while. The repo updated last week, though. Not everything needs a high release cadence.

The most common alternative is probably Bottles

Proton does. I switched from Mullvad for that very reason.