I guess it depends on what your use case might be. I have heard that Manjaro is decent for a desktop Arch experience, but I have yet to try it.

My use case recently was for a living-room PC that works like a console version of the Steam Deck. For that purpose, ChimeraOS works really well. It’s an Arch-based distro that uses the Steam Deck controller-first interface and so far is handling almost everything I’ve thrown at it. It even has a remote admin app where you can install games from GOG or Epic (although GOG support only installs the base game at the moment, no DLC or updates) or upload console ROMs for emulation.

I would say if you go this route, get a PS4/PS5 controller. The touch space is recognized as a mouse, which removes the need to attach a mouse for those moments when you need to get into the desktop (such as formatting a secondary drive for use in Steam).

I’m guessing the damage is lower due to the persistent damage and the fact that spirit damage can take effect if the target has fire resistance/immunity.

Spirit damage is a new damage type that replaces the law/chaos alignment damage. There was also a leaked sidebar from Rage of Elements which has the following:

Vitality and void replace positive and negative traits and damage.

I presume this is due to positive/negative being OGL terms.

“I am totally normal human!”

I’m starting to not trust RPGBot as definitive when it comes to his PF2E guides. I didn’t notice it when I was looking over his 5E stuff, but he seems to be doing his ranking purely on “Does it help do damage?” and “Does it help the damage dealers do damage?” which is not a neutral space to be ranking from.

I do agree that it’s good for basic insights - just be mindful of the bias and check other guides.

That does seem odd. It doesn’t have to be a “console” distro like ChimeraOS, but maybe an Arch derivative like Manjaro would have been more appropriate. (I don’t know many gaming-focused distros tbh)

That does make the Fused Staff feat look pretty appealing then! But for true strike I don’t know if that’s action efficient, since you can’t Spellstrike with that spell. The actions needed for that go like this:

• Change bow to staff
• Cast true strike
• Change staff to bow
• Spellstrike

And I’m not sure how you fit a Spellstrike into the same turn without taking an action the previous turn to set up for it. But having a Staff of Evocation or another evocation-based staff sounds like a great idea!

I’m gaming on a NUC 11 Extreme kit with a Sapphire Pulse Radeon 6700 XT running ChimeraOS.

Currently it is doing really well, though some games appear to not be using anti-aliasing and I’m not sure why. But aside from that I am super impressed with how well Proton and Lutris have come along!