For any one who finds it in the future - I just set a Steam launch with gamescope set to half my native resolution, fullscreen and enabled fsr. Games run at the weird 1128x752 and FSR makes it look even better but I get great performance.

Just wanted to report back that this worked perfectly.

You would need to look at the terms of service with your provider.

The main issue with Usenet is retention. I don’t mean that you should worry too much about retention on your particular providers, but just as a general concept the idea that after 10-15 years files go away means that it can be tough to find older media, especially media that is not popular enough for people to reupload.

People always talk about needing multiple servers but I just use Astraweb and I have been fine. I have a block plan on another server somewhere but I honestly didn’t even set it up when I reconfigured nzbget.

Movies and TV shows have been super easy to find on Usenet, but even with a couple private indexers I have found music and books to be hit or miss. I use Tidal with Plex and the $10 per month has been worth it to me simply because I listen to a ton of different music. That said, probably 80% of what I listen to has been available on Usenet.

I read a lot of nerdy books (fantasy and sci-fi) and that’s been easy enough to find, but my wife’s more mainstream tastes have actually been trickier.

Yeah I was still on the plane and it was in airplane mode.

You don’t even need to go the screen share route, Plex has Watch Together built in.

I downloaded this stuff hours before I went to the airport.

I mean not streaming at all back with the DRM issues but I guess that’s fair.

Their support site literally says “when you don’t have an internet connection” so if it’s working the way you describe then it’s not working as designed.

I’m glad it worked for you. My problem is that if I can’t trust it to work reliably I’m just going to use something else.

I was on airplane mode on my tablet.

Dude no. Don’t be ridiculous.

Well yeah I use VLC for the stuff I’ve downloaded.

We were downloading Netflix stuff to my S7 FE’s SD card since January of this year with no issues.

I use Linux but the only issues I have are 1) lower quality, since the best quality is usually restricted to Chrome and Edge on Windows and Max, and 2) no downloads.

Netflix is terrible but Disney+ 4k with HDR looks decent.

Their help page says you can download to watch where you don’t have an internet connection. So if there is some DRM BS then that’s going directly against what their help page indicates.

Now I will say that Tidal worked flawlessly so I at least had some music.

So… what’s the point of downloading then?

Secure Boot is definitely possible with oS TW. You can select to enable it on install.

With AMD you will be using the open-source drivers for gaming which means openSUSE will give you the benefit of the latest and greatest drivers for best performance.

Honestly just install it with your DE of choice and install Steam. Even for non-Steam games I find that loading them through Steam to use Proton is typically better than setting up Wine independently.