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.

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.

I’ve deleted my Windows partition because I would have needed to reinstall anyways, my partition table was not to my liking and I just said screw it. I hope I won’t regret it! I only have a Win 10 VM at the moment.

If you don’t use the Windows drive I’d say, take that space back :)

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.

Thank you! I was super excited too when i did my research :) And Stray is actually what I’m playing right now ! I’m seeing some slight stutters but I haven’t configured anything or tried other Proton versions yet.

Well, I haven’t used Pop!_OS myself, but it’s all Linux, so the concepts are the same. You’ll have Steam, Lutris, Proton, it’s all applicable. And it uses ubuntu/debian as a base, so you should have all your apps available, or good alternatives.

Oh no problem at all :) I already know I will, I was missing it, and getting an itch I couldn’t scratch with macOS. Now I almost want to sell my M1 mac for a cheap XPS 13 or Framework laptop…