Baaron87

This is what I really enjoy about RA. When I started going through games on it, it made me change how I played the Mega Man games. Absolutely worth it. I need to get back to playing some more retro games again.

You’re probably going to find that the terminal will come up at some point no matter what version of Linux you choose.

For most I would recommend Mint, but since you mentioned having a negative experience previously, perhaps Zorin OS would be a better alternative?

If you want a hardened OS that would be difficult to break, an immutable OS may be a better route for you. Here’s a link with some options to choose from. My recommendation would be Fedora Silverblue.

As someone else mentioned, you will still need to use a password when making changes to the system. You can set it to boot without a password if you prefer to. I use Bazzite (gaming focused immutable OS; based on Fedora Silverblue) and I want to say 90% of the time I only need my password at boot.

If you need office apps, LibreOffice and Open Office should do what you need. MS office can be a challenge to get running, but the online web versions will run out of the box.

Hope that helps!

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TL;DR - OP would like to have a tag system that can be applied to posts.

(E.g. “operating system, help, question, advice, etc, etc)

I do think a tagging system for posts can be helpful too OP

That’s awesome to hear! I’m glad that got it running.

If you haven’t used heroic before it will also let you pull your libraries from Amazon, GOG and Epic if you use any of them.

As someone who keeps the battle.net launcher around for StarCraft 1 & 2, I’ve seen my fair share of issues with Lutris. For the longest time I was able to run the StarCraft games and Overwatch without problems. Over the last few years though, I’ve encountered random issues where I can’t get it running again.

Rather than keep messing with Lutris, on my current install (Bazzite), I installed the Heroic launcher and did a manual install for battle.net. You can choose multiple wine versions or even Proton if you prefer. I have not had any issues with either the launcher or StarCraft games since. Good chance it may allow you to run WoW too.

Good luck!

Every single gas station in my state has gas pumps with screens and ads. Honestly one of the most annoying things today.

I have one gas station that I frequently use and found one of the pumps has a blown out speaker. Even though the ads still play, I hear nothing! The infuriating part comes when that pump is already in use when I arrive. I’ll have to try some of the other comments suggestions here about pressing a side button to mute it

+1 for the framework laptop. Have had zero complaints with mine. Framework also has some guides on their website for specific Linux distros if an issue comes up.

And just echoing another user here: AMD is better supported for the Linux kernel. Speaking from personal experience, I have used both an Intel based and AMD based system with no real issues

I’ve used a wireless mouse, keyboard and xbox series controller with my Bazzite desktop. I usually use the proprietary Microsoft adapter with my controller and it just works. Occasionally I will have to disconnect and reconnect the adapter so it will pair, but that’s about it. Using bluetooth for the controller works too

This is what I did personally. Definitely the easiest route to go as no additional hardware is needed outside of an SD card.

For me personally I took it a step further for gens 1-3 and installed the Pokemon Legacy rom hacks to get a “definitive” experience. No complaints so far.

Should be possible using proton. I did this for Majora’s Mask before Ship2 was released