My main reason is, it’s not a dependengy hell. If I want to build software, I don’t have to go through 5 iterations of being told something is missing, figuring out what that is (most annoying part), installing that and retrying. On Arch-based distros, it’s 2 or less, if it even happens.

Also, AUR.

Other points include

• Small install (I use archinstall though, because more convenient.)
• rolling release.
• Arch wiki

My installs never broke either, so it doesn’t feel unstable to me.

I like it more than ther distros because

• Debian is a dependency hell, otherwise fine. Older packages. I still use raspian though.
• Fedora has too much defaults that differ from my preferences. I don’t want btrfs, I don’t want a seperate home partition, dnf is the only package manager that selects No by default. dnf is also the slowest package manager I’ve seen. Always needs several seconds between steps for seemingly no reason at all. Feels like you can watch it thinking “Okay, so I’ve downloaded all these packages, so they are on the disk. That means - let’s slow down here and get this right - that means, I should install what I downloaded, right. Okay that makes sense, so let’s do that. Here we go installing after downloading”. I also got into dependency hell when trying something once, which having to use dnf makes it even worse. - I guess you can tell I don’t like Fedora.
• Love the concept of NixOS, don’t like the lack of documentation

I have installed all of those Sims games at one point. It works fine. Mods work without any problems as well.

Lutris will help you for the most part.

I think for Sims 3, I specifically had to use Lutris 7.2 as the runner (IIRC, I have to check again). It didn’t work with other versions. I will verify this when I’m home.

I did the most setup for Sims 3 (there is a whole guide for performance). I don’t remember details too well, but it’s still set up I think, so you can go ahaed and ask questions

Minecraft runs native, for Steam games you can see protondb.com

I’d be worried a bit about the Nvidia GPU. But since I have no experience with them, someone else should give you advice on this.

I’m convinced. This is a South Park episode.

https://youtu.be/PmCLeTqD4hY?t=35

I remember reading some articles saying that they backtracked.

I can’t judge how careful the people saying “Audacity is evil” are regarding privacy. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just interested in your thoughts.

MuseScore is owned by the same company, Firefox is worse (as the article mentions)… Do you not use either of these? Do you use one of these but not Audacity? If the second one applies to someone, what would be the reason? As a matter of principle? Something else?

(I mean, I don’t know of a FOSS alternative to MuseScore.)