Yeah, that day when you got your first whole MB of RAM… I remember mine was on SIPP chips.

I’m very happy that you had success and such an easy time. Yay, linux! Yay, you! You’re the best!

Easier for a linux noobie. Some people want easy, some people like to fiddle. It’s good to have choices.

If you’re using nvidia and like Fedora, try Nobara. It’s gaming focused and comes with nvidia drivers.

…this sounds like a company that simply has the wrong processes in place

LOL! OMG, I totally thought you were talking about their process for dealing with negative press/reviews. What’s funny is that your comment basically applies to both your point and mine and that kinda reinforces the point for both versions…

Wish it worked on linux. I understand it does for some folks but I don’t have the skills to deal with it. Oh well.

If you game, and especially if you use nvidiva, I’d recommend Pop!_OS or Nobara.

Oh yeah, I forgot about this one. Good call, definite stinker. Shame, would have loved an Arkham spiritual successor.

The only one that really sticks out is Starfield. Most other games I played I knew what I was getting into. For some reason Starfield surprised me, probably because it was on Gamepass (so effectively free) and because I trusted Bethesda. Oh well.

Considering the number of great games this year, that’s not too bad.

Why would it be Steam’s responsibility?

Never heard of it, but I’ll be sure to keep away in the future, thx.

If you’re not doing anything crazy, there’s no reason linux should be any harder to use than Windows.

Once you’re up and running, daily life will be pretty straightforward.

Plenty of great advice in the other posts that I won’t rehash. One thing I didn’t see mentioned is using a live boot to try out linux. You can basically run it off a USB stick before you install it to get a feel for what it’s like. Most “beginner friendly” distros will have tutorials on how to create the live disk. Example for Pop!_OS: https://support.system76.com/articles/live-disk/

The MOBA genre is based off a mod for Warcraft 3 called Defense of the Ancients. DotA, being a mod, had lots of “quirks” (aka bugs) in the game play that kind of just became part of the flavor of the game. LoL was the first standalone MOBA, based off DotA and (iirc) developed by some of the people who worked on the original mod. LoL was designed as a standalone game but it recreated all the quirks of the mod because they were believed to be so important to the game.

Blizzard, when they made HotS, looked at some of the wonky, quirky things and said “This is dumb, let’s strip that out and make it simpler.” The result is a MOBA that’s just as fun but less complex. I really enjoyed it a lot for that reason.

Oh yeah, I forgot they added an official ARAM mode. Back when I played, it was a custom game thing and kinda honor system to stay in the middle lane. I played it a lot before I quit for the low stress environment. Kinda want to check it out now. Shame/not-shame I can’t because I’m on linux.

People were begging for auto-mute back when I was playing. I realize that it’s a team game and they don’t want to discourage communication but they were well aware of the toxicity. They implemented the Tribunal system to try to address it. Didn’t do much in the short term. Glad rito caved on the auto-mute.

Possible you’re in a noobie bracket where they keep you away from experienced players so you can learn with less stress… and get into the game before you realize how toxic it can be. :-D

But glad it’s good so far! It really is a fun game. I played for a couple years despite all the toxicity so yeah.

Is that game still the poster child for toxic gamers? Been years since I played but I would never let my kid play that game.

It’s sad because it is pretty fun when you get into it and when you have people to play with. But it really only takes one person to ruin a match for nine other people by trolling/feeding/etc. I ended up quitting because it was just WAY too toxic.

The shit people used to say in that game… like nothing I’ve heard in any other game. Literally talking about

like that’s somehow acceptable shit talking. Curious if it’s gotten any better… it certainly couldn’t have gotten any worse.

For the sake of those who love the game, I hope it’s true. Personally, I doubt it, but who knows…

Ditto. I swapped to linux this summer and landed on Pop!_OS because my laptop has hybrid Nvidia graphics. Pop supports that really well because the company that makes Pop sells laptops with similar hybrid Nvidia graphics.

So far almost every game I’ve tried on Pop has worked with no issue. Of the games that have had issues, EVERY ONE got working with the help of Proton db. (Note: All Steam games or games with native linux support.)

Anyways, yeah I’m really not the biggest fan of Pop’s desktop environment, but it work really well for gaming so I’m leaving well enough alone.

Does the world really need another building/survival “game”? These are getting as stale as Ubisoft open world games.