There's no fights in the game that are based on chance, and I think you will have a lot more fun if you adjust your approach. Oh, I agree that there's some BS, but the game provides a lot of tools to help. Each attack does have one or more "correct" response, you've gotta work out the correct answers then piece them together.
I would never recommend grinding a boss for five hours, there's other stuff to do in the game, or play something else.
I don't think it's especially egregious for a company to advertise it's new hardware on it's platform. I do think that the form of system messages is unfortunate though.
Some of those issues are addressable, even though they definitely suck, depending on how badly someone wants to swap to Linux. I have a PC I connect to my TV, and while it's built in wifi doesn't work on linux, I was able to buy a PCI wifi card and put it in, which works. You can do similar for Bluetooth. Currently I just use it over Ethernet. For laptops, it's a pain but there are USB wifi/bluetooth devices you can get. Fingerprint readers are tougher, I believe, but I feel less critical.
Either way, use what works best for you!
In the case of dark souls, you can quit out at any time and your progress is saved. If you're in a boss fight, it'll just put you in front of the boss door when you reload your save. It's saving automatically constantly. Bonfires are more for setting your respawn point when you die, and fast travel, among other features that vary from game to game.
That level of tension can absolutely be done without forcing you to lose progress if say, your power goes out or you have to go.
There are different Linux distributions that do offer paid support, as far as the OS goes. So if you're interested in professional paid support for the OS, something like Zorin OS or Ubuntu may be an option.
I've seen others recommend Linux mint, and that's my go-to for someone not familiar with Linux. It's popular and even if whatever repair shop you're taking it into isn't familiar, they can find the resources online to fix whatever problem you may have.
But being totally practical, even if you dislike windows, if it's able to do what you need, and the people that you know are familiar with it, is it worth the effort to swap for you and your use case?
That's hardly a fair judge of Morrowind, it's very different from Skyrim. Oh it's definitely clunky, but what we got with Skyrim was very streamlined in ways that hurt the role-playing elements. Morrowind is a little bit tougher to get into, but really rewards you for your time.
Navigating down the catacombs is hardly an easy thing to do early in the game, and is full of traps and enemies that come back to life.
It's not a linear game, so sometimes you wander into areas that are too tough for you, you just have to leave and try again later.
You really have to go through a lot of difficult stuff to get to the tomb of the giants, and once you enter it's a large difficulty spike. That difficulty spike really is intended to encourage you to leave and come back at a later time. It has it's issues, but when you come back prepared (and with a light source of some kind), it really does have a lot to offer as an area.
How are you routing to the boss right from firelink? If you opened the large gate to the valley of the drakes in New Londo, I recommend entering that way. You just run past Blighttown's exit. It really minimizes how much you have to interact with the ghosts.
Honestly? The oppression of the native population in the US. The genocide of their people and the colonization of their land. The thanksgiving people celebrate is based on a whitewashed version of history that we use to feel good about our bloody history.
The remaster just came out this year, and Oblivion is loved by a lot of people. I replay it every couple years. Regardless, old games are very much still worth experiencing.
I'm not really interested in some aggressive back and forth on a Lemmy thread, so this is the last response I'm going to leave with you. I shared what my experience was at the time, and I don't especially care if you believe me. I'm not my time trying to put together and research a list of equivalent hardware with time accurate prices to the Xbox One/Ps4 generation to please a random person I haven't met on Lemmy.
If you care that much, you can do the research.
I built a PC that was more expensive and more powerful than consoles at the time, but did plenty of looking into different hardware prices.
The important thing is prices at the time.
You can feel free to do the digging if you want.
Usually you'd end up with just slightly more expensive for the Base hardware, but with no online subscription cost that would make console more expensive long-term.
It really was, I migrated from console to pc around the beginning of the Xbox One/ps4 generation. It was more effort to hunt down parts and build a PC, for sure, but it was very doable to match console performance for the same price. These days though thanks in part to tariffs, and crypto mining, hardware prices are worse than they used to be.