I’ve played Deus Ex (and the revision mod) and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on Linux without issue. If you’re playing steam games it’s basically just install and play. Especially for old games.

There’s a website called protondb.com you can check for compatibility. Gaming on Linux is so good now though, I don’t even check anymore before buying games.

Word of warning though. While modding games running through wine/proton is possible, mod managers don’t usually work or are tedious to set up. I don’t mod too much so I usually just manually install or stick with steam workshop mods.

A shocking amount of microcontroller manufacturers have eclipse based IDEs for their chips. Thought that seems to be going out of style, luckily.

I was actually offered a Bachelor thesis topic by a company to write a test bench for a product in LabView.

From what they told me and my other engineering experience I’d suggest going with an approach similar to what’s used with HDLs. For unit tests create test benches in the language itself which call the functions you want to test with a predefined input (e.g. from a file) and then analyse and save the output.

You can extend this to obtaining other information as well, but tbh I’ll bet it’s still gonna be a pain.

Hope that helps at least a little.

Up until recently I was using a gtx 1060 just fine. Not sure about the high end ray tracing stuff though.

I’d say give it a try, I had a great experience. Never had any proton issues with an nvidia card my self. Just keep in mind nvidia drivers on Linux are notorious for being bad. If you choose an LTS distro or one that packages the drivers you’ll be fine though. Pop!_OS LTS with the nvidia drivers is what I ran.