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.

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

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.

Thank you! It’s cozy here :)

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 :(

It depends and I’m not going to sugarcoat it.

You can look up the ProtonDB pages for the games you plan to play, and see how they fare. Some will work out of the box, some will require some tweaks, some will require MAJOR tweaks (I’ve yet to encounter any of those), and some will just flat out not run.

So far, the most “configuration” I’ve had to make was changing the Proton version used by same games. Example: Cult of the Lamb has major issues on the latest Experimental build of Proton, but on 7.0-6, it runs perfectly.

It depends if you’re ready to spend a bit of time on getting bigger games working.

Right. I’ve done my research before and I do have a Pi hole setup on my Linux server. I used Vanced back when I was on Android but I had to switch to iOS for work and stayed on it since.

It sucks because I’d much rather not pay for YouTube at all, but we share the family plan since we’re all on iOS…

Doesn’t it let YouTube ads go through? Because they use the same domains for videos and ads? AFAIK Pi Hole can’t block YT ads right?

I wish I didn’t have to pay for premium, but we’re all iOS users and we use Smart TVs and Chromcasts to cast and I’m not sure how to block ads on those (not Android TV, Samsung TVs).

If there’s a way to block ads there I’d love to know. I can’t really use AltStore either, I’ve tied it in the past and I don’t always have the means to refresh every 7 days.

Noted. I’ve heard of QEMU but I never tried to get it working before. I’ll use that from now on.

I’ve been out of the loop about Linux and I’ll be switching back to it this weekend. What’s the best way to run VMs on Linux now (that supports Wayland)?

Last time I checked it was. I don’t know if a new bug was introduced since however.

It works but they won’t provide support if it breaks. There was a bug with screen sharing sound on Linux (and maybe macOS as well?) for a LONG time, like years, before it was eventually fixed.

On macOS they also took their sweet ass time with the Apple Silicon version, when the regular version was broken as hell on the shiny new M1 Macs.

They only really care about « gAmERs » which to then means Windows.

For anyone with issues on Memmy, I just emptied the password field on my account and filled it back in, then hit save and it worked.