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Exactly, I’ve noticed this over the past few months, actual relevant results are being pushed much further down the stack.
If you want to explore alternatives, I’ve been using SearXNG, a so-called “metasearch engine”, where you can get a combination of various search engine results, based on your preferences. It’s pretty good, when it works (it tends to get rate-limited fairly often… or at least some of its results / search engines do, which can get annoying).
Not the best, but so far from the worst.
Work-wise, it’s slowly starting to fall apart, so I’m also slowly starting to look for something else - I don’t want to jump on the first opportunity I find so I fear it’ll be a long process… We’ll see.
Friends-wise, I’ve made some real connections over the past few weeks/months and I’m really happy with where I’m at. With how socially anxious I am, it hasn’t been been easy… but am I glad I got out of my comfort zone!
Otherwise, it’s Final Fantasy XVI release week and I can’t wait for thursday :)
anti-cheat isn’t an issue per se, as long as game developers decide to add the required files to their games (eg what Apex: Legends devs did a year or so ago, around the time the Steam Deck launched, to ensure proper Proton compatibility), but in short - yes, many online games will still require you to dual boot anyways, unfortunately.
i’m no content creator, so i can’t recommend good alternatives to the apps you mentioned, however OBS works flawlessly on most Linux distros, so you should have zero issues with live streaming.
oh and i would say driver support is usually better on the Linux side, although I think Debian based distros (like PopOS) might lag a bit behind compared to other distros? this might be outdated knowledge though, so take that with a pinch of salt
This would depend on the search engines enabled and/or the default language/country set (if any) for that particular instance, you can find those in the settings of the instance itself (and enable/disable whichever you’re most interested in, as well as a few other relevant settings).