PC game osts:KhinsiderDownloader

Switch dumping: nxdumptool + tinfoil

Wii U ripping: Wii U USB helper or dumpling

PS3 backups: nopaystatoon

Pre-patched rom hacks: CDRomance

Other backups or manuals and scans: Internet archive or vimm’s lair

With just goldberg yeah. There’s another program, i don’t recall it’s name at the moment, that keeps track of acheivements.

If you have a large steam library, the rin forum has some tools to help backup a good chunk of those games. Usually you can’t run a steam game without the steam client, but steamless and goldberg can make them run without needing the client.

Freetube is good too

Especially when the potato laptop stops being so potato all of a sudden. It’s satisfying.

Ugh, yeah. Dual booting is such a headache lol

The best thing to do is to just jump in.Pick a distro, doesn’t matter which and just start using it.

For software just browse the Music category of pamac, discover, or whatever app-front you decide to use. There’s some really good stuff in there.

For the most part it works really well! 90% of games on steam work without any hassle and the 10% with errors have workarounds. It’s not perfect but it’s definitely getting better as time goes on, especially with more anticheats having compatibility with linux than 5 years ago. When it comes to standalone games, it can be a mixed bag because sometimes it works perfectly and other times it doesn’t, but launchers like lutris help get the games that don’t work run decently. When it comes to emulators, they work really well, sometimes better than running them on windows, but keep in mind where you’re getting them. I have less issues overall with the flatpack variants of emulators.

youtube revanced is the goat, but make sure to get it from github. It’s the only official source at the moment. You gotta patch it yourself but it’s basically youtube vanced once it’s all set up.

If you’re looking for an alternative, spotube is a decent one.

Mull, pokemmo, and youtube revanced are my go to apps.