I tried out a bunch of pariah state OSes to find out which is best for gaming

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Windows? Pfft. Real, hardcore PC gamers play games on North Korea's 'Red Star' operating system.

I can't screenshot the sound playing here, but imagine God decided to punish you for all your sins at the same time using the medium of sound alone.

As to the rest of it? Not much better, I'm afraid. ALT's built-in version of Firefox was able to navigate the web with greater alacrity and less charm than Naenara, but I couldn't bully Steam into installing properly and there wasn't a version of it on ALT's package manager. Meanwhile, my GOG-provided Linux copy ofThe only thing ALT had going for it when it comes to videogames was that I could navigate Firefox over to—a text-based MUD—and play that.

Developed by Havana's University of Information Science, Nova is a Ubuntu-based Linux distro that booted incredibly easily when I loaded it into a virtual machine, and even let me mess around with it before I installed it properly.It didn't have the strongest selection of pre-installed games—just Solitaire—but then neither did ALT or Red Star, and it didn't let me install Steam. I guess if I do become some kind of games mediaI'll just have to rededicate myself to my GOG library.

It's not perfect. ALT probably had a better selection of games in its package manager, but the ability to actually install and run my own games—and not lose my hearing in the process— means Nova stands head and shoulders above its competitors. The most damning indictment I can make of it is that its wallpaper selection is shocking. Just a load of abstract, colourful nonsense. No artillery at all. Even ALT had a cool shot of the Milky Way among everything else, but Nova really needs to step up its display settings game if it wants to take home the gold.

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