Man... Anybody remember "Back Orifice"? The late nineties were weird.
swordsmanluke
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If not vanilla Ubuntu, I'd still suggest trying an Ubuntu derivative like Linux Mint or POP! OS. Ubuntu has a huge community, so in the event you run into issues it'll be easier to find fixes for it.
What you'll find is that Linux distros are roughly grouped by a "family" (my term for it anyway). Anyone can (theoretically, anyway) start from a given kernel and roll their own distro, but most distros are modified versions of a handful of base distros.
The major families at the moment are
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Debian: A classic all-rounder that prioritizes stability over all else. Ubuntu is descended from Debian.
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Fedora: Another classic all-rounder. I haven't used it in a decade, so I won't say much about it here.
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Arch: If Linux nerds were car people, Arch is for the hot rodders. You can tune and control pretty much any aspect of your system. ... Not a good 1st distro if you want to just get something going.
There are many others, but these are the major desktop-PC distro families at the moment.
The importance of these families is that techniques that work in one (say) Debian-based distro will tend to work in other Debian-based distros... But not necessarily in distros from other families.
In order to add their names to your dictionary. You don't have to allow it. But given that there's no internet access for the keyboard - it seems pretty safe
Fortunately, my PC is a gods damned packrat. I had a half million extra daggers, several great swords and so forth sitting in my camp chest. One quick detour and Astorion's got a shiny new dagger...
DM: Your rapier finds the tiniest of gaps in the Demon King's plate armor and ...tickles his armpit lightly. The Dark One emits a surprisingly high pitched giggle and takes one point of psychic damage.
...bed a separate TV tuner and speakers...
Do I bed them immediately, or should I buy them dinner first?
Journey
Ico / Shadow of the Colossus / The Last Guardian
No Man's Sky
As a DM I don't mind rules-lawyering, but you better be prepared for Consequences later on.
I am a big believer in the rule of cool and as long as everybody is having a good time, I don't mind looking the other way if a player makes a creative interpretation of the rules.
...But you better believe I'm gonna spend some time thinking about what should happen thematically if your wizard starts draining their own death energy to revive themselves.
I like a number of the suggestions here. I think my "solution" here would be to let once slide. The second time, I hand the player a folded note informing them that the toes on their left foot didn't come back with them, causing a visible limp, reduced movement speed and -1 to DEX.
...And we can build from there. Possibly start building a Final Destination style plan.
Cheating Death must have Consequences.
It's like ten lbs, right? ...don't ask me how I know that.
Yeah, multiplayer games with kernel-level anti-cheat are gonna be real hard to support on Linux. I don't know that we'll ever have a good solution to that.
I'm curious: what feature(s) of SteamOS are keeping you from trying/switching to Linux?
If it's Proton, you get that for free with any Steam install on Linux. I've been using it for the last couple years. (And it's awesome)
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Yup. Zorin's another great Debian-based distro. I've been running it on my laptop for awhile now and I'm a fan.