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Yup.

These changes have already been integrated into Windows 10 with KB5032278 and Windows 11 with KB5032288 , but have largely not yet been activated.

Guess just need to wait till they do.

Did you check out Lutris for mod managers? I know Vortex is on there and is supposed to work with all steam games.

A little detective work got me to this Linux specific mod manager that targets BG3 and CP2077 - https://github.com/CHollingworth/Lampray

You can download Windows 10 directly from Microsoft. Any version you like, if you use the command line interface.

You can then use an open source bit of software to commercially license it. This is basically legitimate, for all intents and purposes. It's how corporate licenses are done.

A computer built for Windows 11 hardware should work just fine in Windows 10. You might not be able to use the official manufacturer's drivers for certain bits, but the generic drivers should still work.

There's a github installer for mod organizer 2 on linux, which I use for modding skyrim. Maybe that would work for you as well?

Welcome to Linux, where simultaneously the forum "have you tried Linux?" people claims it works perfectly, and they've never once encountered an issue ever in their lifetime, and the rest of the users struggle with bullshit error after error that somehow miraculously don't occur on the soapboxers' machines

I knoooooooow. I know arcgis is working on it at least. I'm a geologist, a ton of our geospatial programs require windows.

But I'm about ready to experiment with a dual joot for my home set up! I really never need windows for that anymore

The future is now old man.

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/install/linux/welcome-to-the-portal-for-arcgis-installation-guide.htm

Looks like the other three aren't natively supported though.

I have dual monitors with different scaling and refresh rates, both work perfectly. Even VRR works as expected. I'm using Manjaro KDE with Wayland, Intel CPU, AMD GPU.

Linux Mint hasn't finished their work on Wayland and thus, the things you are experiencing are unfortunately expected. So you might want to try with another distro with GNOME or KDE.

When people suggested you Mint, they were wrong in ignoring your setup.

I feel the same way when I am forced to use Windows, it feels so primitive and in-the-way but I guess people get used to what they use.

We're you on Xorg? I think Mint still is by default?

Recommend trying Fedora proper (with Gnome).

Everything works perfectly except HDR (next release).

Even multi monitor and hidpi. It's polished and cohesive in its design. And if you want the windows 7 look you can use the dash to panel extension.