Not sure how long but definitely 10+ years here. I didn’t comment much but when I did, it was to help people in the Unix subreddits (Linux / Ubuntu / elementaryOS / macOS / macOS Patching scene).

I was very active in the Mojave and Catalina patcher subreddits, as well as Opencore legacy. I replaced all my comments with “fuck spez” before nuking everything some time later.

I usually use my phones LTE (tethered connection via USB) when wifi doesn’t work during the install.

Nah, Diablo works fine on Linux.

I would stay away from Manjaro, it has a history or being unreliable due to the holding back updates for 2 weeks. EndeavourOS is getting recommended a lot recently, I’d go with that instead!

The EA launcher works just fine via Lutris. Source : I’m using it to play Mass Effect Legendary Edition perfectly fine.

Battle.net works as well, OW2 plays fine on Linux.

GOG & Epic work through Heroic Launcher as you mentioned.

As for a distro, I’d aim for something Arch based. Simply because you’ll get the latest drivers and mesa versions all the time, which is proven to increase FPS a ton over say, Ubuntu.

This is what I did. Gave my M1 air to my boyfriend for his coding classes and got a cheap used XPS 13, installed Arch on it and it runs much better than macOS.

Thank you kindly! I just back into Linux (i use arch btw), so I didn’t keep myself updated on all the Linux news. I’ll read through them.

Have you tried adding those games to steam and running them through proton ? They work fine on my arch box.

Wow, I wasn’t aware System76 were working on their own DE. Nice roundup on your experience with it, I’ll try to keep myself up to date with their development.

Super clean and sleek. I love the Gruvbox colors. So good on the eyes. Amazing setup!

it’s a 5700XT, not sure why it show up as a 5600, and because when I built my PC, GPUs were expensive as hell and it’s all I could get my hands on. I’ll upgrade in the coming months :)

My pleasure ! :)

Yeah, I’m told NVIDIA is not a very fun experience :(

I don’t play it by my boyfriend does. There’s a whole community over at /c/leagueoflinux that might be able to help!

This is also something I noticed when I was looking for a distro for my home media server. Tried Ubuntu Server, saw how they’re trying to push their premium services and nope’d the heck out.

I can understand they want to make money off of their service but I wasn’t a fan of that.

Yeah im aware. I’ve had to do it in the past, it’s a registry edit IIRC

Thank you! It’s cozy here :)

Don’t apologize! Someone else in the thread asked for it and the original artist was linked. I’m on mobile so linking it will be a pain but if you scroll you’ll find it in better resolution :)

Nope I’m full AMD. I’m not entirely sure how NVIDIA works on Linux. I just know it doesn’t work well with Wayland. And fair enough for not buying AMD. Personally, I would do some research, try some things, but I’m really not familiar with NVIDIA card I’m afraid :(

For sure. I wanted to dual boot at first but I had multiple partitions and drives formatted as NTFS. Plus my EFI partition was too small.

I would have needed to nuke everything anyways, create a neat partition table, install windows again, then install Arch. And then I know you get issues like the time being messed up, Bluetooth can be fudged too. I decided to just try this for a few weeks and see how it goes. :)

That’s fair.