This year I made a ‘promise’ to play the top 20 NES games as when I was a child/teen I never managed to beat any of those.

Steam Deck is such a boon that I can play my nostalgia games one hour before when I go to bed instead of doom scrolling reddit or whatever.

And I have actually beaten smb 1 and ninja gaiden (with save states) and megaman 2 without any saves and I feel so good!

One of the things you could do as a new Linux user is to try out some support questions with your favorite search engine. Try ‘catchyos my headset mic is not working’ or ‘nobara how do I change my background wallpaper every 15 minutes’ or ‘<distro name> <real problem you’ve had the past 2 years>’.

This approach will give you an realistic view how much support you will have when you’re dealing with an actual problem.

I keep hearing this 15% tariff from EU to US. What’s EUs counter tariff to from US to EU. 15%? 10%? 0%? Wtf.

I’m running lotro via Lutris happily on Mint. Your case sounds like a permission problem somewhere as the launcher works.

This is farfetched I know but try a nuclear option and use another distro to install lotro via Lutris to a shared mount and then mount & run it from there in your distro.