Attached debit card would be a bad measure, as there's a lot of parents who would give their kids their card info to save.

Account age should most definitely be the first measurement, followed by activity(time of day and type of content).

Either way, you shouldn't have to tell anyone how old you are to use your device.

The PvP in GW2 is genuinely good too, at least from a gamefeel perspective.

WvW is the only good large-scale PvP content I've played in an MMO. Even though they neutered the community with world restructuring, as long as you can find a group you vibe with it's still loads of fun.

Not sure about that argument, coke does tend to be a lot more fun than AI usage.

Their content has always been high-quality but there's just something terribly depressing about watching it - I dropped them years ago because of that feeling.

A truly blessed Steam Deck, praise be to HolyC.

All I remember about Cookie and Cream was fighting with my player 2 cause we couldn't get far in the first level at all

Granted, I think I was like 6 or 7 at the time, so I imagine the game isn't that hard, but in my head it's the dark souls of my childhood

Cinnamon is the reason I don't recommend Mint to people, but it's mainly because I don't like it. The default UI has so much wasted space it's revolting, they tried to get the windows XP/7 feel with the app launcher and ended up with blocky, boring blank space.

Unless someone is familiar with MacOS and wants to use something similar w/ GNOME, I've only been recommending KDE spins or distros with it as default.

Honestly, having only seriously played around with Ubuntu a little bit a year ago, CachyOS has been nothing but smooth sailing for me. I would consider myself pretty savvy, but with the built in tools provides even a casual user should be able to get up and going.

I use paru instead of pacman, so I can get AUR packages easily, and outside of running a 4 letter command and following the prompts, that's just about the only thing I've had to do in a terminal.

Arch and its variants(CachyOS, EndeavourOS, and Manjaro) are just "difficult" insofar as they usually need you to understand the basics of using the terminal, and how to look up documentation as needed.

With CachyOS, I haven't played much with the others so I can't speak for them, you could get away with using the GUI tools shipped by default for a long time and not have any problems.

If it works for you, that's what matters! Difficulty is subjective, too.

Yes, they made vote scaling more aggressive after that one Battlefront dev got downvoted into oblivion.

The ol' IT person magic touch - the second you touch the machine, it works flawlessly!

Only problem is if it's one of those problems that's workflow-based. I can't tell you how many times I've said "well it seems to work fine for me" only to watch the user do the same task in the most janky, roundabout way, and that is the source of their problem.

Of course Win11 ran slow, the CPU the tests were done on is 6 generations behind the official cutoff. I'd rather see the results from the same experiment run on a i5-8400, which is min specs.

It'll still be slow, but at least it won't be an unsupported platform.