I’ve mostly done hobby projects with rust.
axum + mongodb + oauth2 (just basic rest api)
rust-bert ( for some nlp stuff. Zero-shot, NER, etc.)
Bevy ( I was following a tutorial for a super basic space invaders game)
I chose rust because I always like to have some kind of systems level programming language on my belt. It used to be c++. Rust had seemed very interesting so I began trying it out more and more. It’s awesome.
I’m just waiting for us to go full circle where the majority are just listening to the radio for the broadcast about the game.
I’m not a game dev, just a regular dev. I have experimented with Bevy though. The documentation is top notch and there are many examples, YouTube videos and guides for starting out. I followed one such guide that was essentially a space invaders clone. I switched out some of the assets so that it was my brother’s face shooting lasers, and sent it to him.
At my leisure pace, I finished the tutorial in about a week. I recommend giving it a try. Your first game doesn’t have to be perfect or even complete. My space invaders didn’t even have a background color.
Valve with Proton also helped a lot. Playing games on Linux is easy as pushing play. If I have any problems, I just wait for a glorious egg roll to drop.
I dabbled in Linux for a while (since 2009, college). I did some distro hopping for a while ( Ubuntu, opensuse, mint, Debian). I finally mained Linux after windows 8 came out, ugh.
I mained Manjaro and then switched over to Endeavour. I couldn’t be happier. My opinion of Linux keeps getting better and better, but that’s probably because I have to fix my parents computers once in a while. They run windows 10 now. I hate it. Ads in the start menu?! Kill me now.
Made a discord soundboard bot. Some simple text channel commands get the bot to join whatever voice channel you’re in and get the bot to display available sounds as buttons in the text channel. It actually works really well and sounds great.
My friends and I just wanted a bigger soundboard without having to pay for it.