Stillhart

IMHO it depends on what kind of gaming you do. For me, I play all the big tentpole AAA games on console. My PC gaming is mostly indy stuff and things that suck on console like 4x strategy games. For my uses, gaming on linux has been... surprisingly good.

I would definitely recommend trying it out with dual boot.

I'm not linux expert. But I have been messing around with it again lately, trying to get it working on my gaming laptop. I was using Nobara for a bit, which I liked quite a bit. It's a Fedora-based distro that's put together by the GloriousEggroll guys so it comes with Nvidia drivers and tons of gaming stuff preinstalled.

I ended up ditching it mainly for one reason: it didn't handle my hybrid graphics well. Some games worked fine, some refused to even start.

I ended up swapping to Pop!_OS because it supports hybrid Nvidia graphics with no issues. The guys who make the distro sell laptops with hybrid graphics so they have incentive to have it work well. All the games that wouldn't start in Nobara work seamlessly in Pop.

I'm not a huge fan of the desktop environment but I'm getting used to it and there's definitely something to be said for everything just working.

League was the poster child for toxic communities a decade or so ago when I played. It must have gotten better (it certainly couldn't have gotten worse!) if this isn't the top comment by a mile.

As someone who played hundreds and thousands of hours of Destiny, it still weirds me out to hear people call "Destiny 2" Destiny. They are very different games.

Destiny 2 is predatorily-monetized garbage. Destiny (the game it was at the time of its untimely murder by money-grubbing assholes, not the game at launch) is one of the best games I've ever played.

Random update: I had to swap to Pop!_OS because some games were having issues with the hybrid graphics on my laptop. I couldn't figure out how to get it working in Nobara but Pop supports hybrid Nvidia graphics (because the company that makes Pop sells laptops with hybrid graphics). It took a little longer to get Pop working as well for me as Nobara was, but so far so good.

I really don't like the desktop environment as much but I've got it working well enough and I'm getting used to it. I don't want to mess with it more, trying to install Wayland and whatever, so I'll stick with what just works.

Honestly, I've had Gamepass Ultimate for so long, I'm not even sure anymore. Maybe, tho? I can edit that bit out... doesn't make a huge difference to the rant. lol

I have no idea how the PS5 is doing so well. I have had both the PS5 and the XSX since launch (yes, I got VERY lucky) and I almost never use the PS5. The Xbox is a significantly better box for doing everything besides gaming (like watching Netflix, etc), the controller is about 100x better, they're actually available to buy whenever you want, Gamepass is way better than PS+ equivalent, and Xbox has more exclusives.

Spiderman 2 in a couple months is going to be the first real reason to turn on my PS5 in ages.

Sorry, just ranting a little here. I have been a PS fanboy for ages and the PS5 being so meh is pretty disappointing. I totally agree that Sony sat on their laurels while MS improved. I firmly believe that if more games had cross-platform support, Sony market share would tank. Being able to play with friends on the PS4/PS5 is the main reason I even have a PS5.

World of Sims-halla-craft?

So after a lot of dinking around on two different machines and trying about 6 or 7 different distros, I've settled on Nobara and I'm really into it. It does everything I need right out of the box, it looks good, and it just works. I haven't gamed a ton on it yet, but so far the light-weight games I've tried have worked perfectly.

For day to day stuff... linux is there. There's no reason to use Windows for day to day computing stuff and, if gaming works out, I don't see why I'd ever need to go back to the Windows boot. I'm impressed.

Anyways, thanks for the recommendation. I have a RL buddy who also recommended this distro. He said it's a good balance between the slow updates from Ubuntu-based distros and the rapid updates from Arch-based distro. Too slow and your drivers get out of date. Too fast and you get a buggy mess. Makes sense to me.

Looking like the Tesla connector is well on its way to becoming the standard now. GM, Ford, Rivian, (I'm forgetting one), and now Mercedes all switching over. The Tesla Supercharger network in the US is fantastic, much better than the alternative. Hopefully that doesn't go downhill as more cars flood the network.

Looking into Manjaro, it sounds like it's kind of known for having issues with reliability. Seems like that might not be the best pick for something that "just works". But I've heard good things about Arch so I don't know.

Yeah, I have no pride about using summons for the boss fights. I figure I can be l33t and solo bosses on my New Game+ play through if I ever get that far.

I do have alt-itis bad in these kinds of games. I started with a 2h Strength build, tried dual wield, sword and board, pure int mage, pure dex sword/bow, and dex/int spellblade. So far my 2h build and my spellblade have been the most fun for me. As you mentioned, I realized that the versatility of the spellblade worked really well... the ranged magic trivialized some areas and having a melee tool let me hold my own when range wasn't an option. I am starting to think I need a better dex sword than the Estoc/Rapier tho. The poke poke move set is really bad against groups.

ANYWAYS, I'll look into the mimic!