I still prefer *bin over Lemmy for the UI and the domain-blocking feature, even with Lemmy having post-hiding features. 🙂
I’m more biased against Google than against Microsoft, and as mentioned in another comment, the search engines are proxies of the respective companies, so it’s hard to give an objective opinion.
Now, what I would suggest, trying to be as neutral as possible, is to test both and see which fit your needs more. After that, use mainly the better one and keep the other as a fallback option.
It may be a good idea to launch the game through the terminal for troubleshooting when it doesn’t launch through the UI. More often than not on Linux, the terminal carries very useful info, of which often you can find solutions online once you spot a suspicious line. And for Steam games specifically, to not change the test environment too much, the command for starting a given game is steam steam steam://rungameid/[game_id], where [] is the number that appears in a given game’s page on Steam, e.g. 211820 for Starbound, making the command steam steam://rungameid/211820.
Personally, if I don’t see something as good for me, I move away as soon as possible. And in cases where there’s a mix between likeable and unlikeable figures and communities, I stick around only if blocking features hide those figures from my feed. Since often communities have their own cultures, but, or some times instead, some are worse than others, it makes things more easy.
Hopefully the issues are waning nearly a week after the original post! But what I would do, in a case of waking up both early and stressed for whatever reason, is also to check music, specifically going through my selection at random until one that clicks is selected. Usually also they’re power metal, symphonic metal or related, the cheesy stuff as I like to say, but it helps me kickstart the day 😅
If you’re sticking to Firefox-based browsers, Waterfox seems to be the fork closest to Firefox without being controlled by Mozilla.