https://xkcd.com/606/

By that definition Minecraft also doesn’t have PvE. Factions are not required for a PvE, and lots of PvE games don’t have them.

You could say that you wanted the PvE to be harder, or more unforgiven, or even more complex with factions. But to say the game has no PvE is just wrong.

And that’s assuming just toggles, if each parameter has 10 levels you only need 12, then add one toggle and you get trillions. Heck, I can name 12 parameters that have at least 10 different values off the top of my head:

1. Amount of water overall (oceans and lakes)
2. Amount of mountains
3. Amount of Forrest on the land
4. Amount of life forms
5. Temperature
6. Amount of moons/rings
7. Size
8. Amount of rivers
9. Whether the landmass is one big continent or multiple small islands
10. Amount of volcanoes
11. Amount of caves
12. Amount of iron (or any other resource)

Congrats, if you now add a does the planet rotate toggle you’ve created trillions of planets.

Were they interesting? Or at least enough of a change to make them significant? Or are we talking random rock model here?

Which is? Admittedly I’ve only played the game for a couple of hours, but I remember there being PvE, so you’re going to have to be more specific into what is it that you think is missing.

I write a planet generator. All of the planets are the same to begin with, so realistically I can only generate “1” planet. Then I add one toggle which is random, if it’s on the planet will be completely water. I now have “2” planets. Now I add another toggle for one huge mountain, I can now generate “4” planets (dry,water,dry-mountain,water-mountain). Keep adding toggles, sliders and parameters until you have “trillions” of possible planets and you’re done.

The funny thing is that the changes are cumulative, so if I release a game that can generate X planets and I add a binary toggle I can now claim I added X planets to the game. If I add a slider from 0-9 then I added 10X planets. So since No Man’s Sky already had a giant number of planets, adding trillions of them could mean something as stupid as they added a new resource to the game so now every planet can have that resource in different amounts.

Vanilla Arch is the better one in terms of performance and ease of use (yeah call me weird for saying Arch is easier to use than other distros XD)

Not weird at all, I use Arch on my main system exactly because I’m lazy and it’s easier to use. It’s harder to install, but a lot easier to use.

And you’re not alone, in fact I would guess you’re part of the majority. But we tend to live in bubbles surrounded by tech savvy people so we forget about it sometimes. And the problem with not knowing something is possible is not realizing its limitations, someone who’s eaten hot dogs every day of their life has no idea what a burguer is, is one intrinsically better than the other? Nope, but they’re different, and different people might like different things.

In any case, just like the other comment, if you have any questions feel free to ask, there’s a thriving community of people who use Linux and some of us were like you so we know where you’re coming from.