Funny, because I had the opposite problem with my laptop… Bazzite couldn’t seem to keep the nvidia gpu happy and working so I switched to Garuda and it hasn’t had a problem gaming since.

I love Linux, but hate the user-to-user inconsistency - it really makes answering the #1 question “which distro should I use” basically impossible to answer. Go download all of them that sound interesting and put them on flash drives and try them out in live environment - narrow down to the ones you like the look of the most, and then install them and try it out and see if you can do what you need or not. It’s not a difficult process but it is a process and there is no simple answer.

Anytime someone asks what I am or have been up to:

“Oh you know, just hanging out and playing nintendo”.

No one I’ve ever met got that it was a direct movie quote.

One company decided to not sell consumer ram anymore

One of the only 3 companies making it. And a second has mentioned following suit.

target non-vital areas if you’re able, shoot for graze shots. But don’t shoot to kill if it can be helped.

This is bad advice and will possibly leave you in more legal trouble then if you killed a home invader. Most places in the US, you aren’t justified to shoot at someone unless you reasonably fear for your life. Shooting to wound or maim has been used successfully in the past to “prove” you weren’t fearing for your life, turning an otherwise “justified” shooting into an "unjustified"one.

This is not advocation to shoot people. It is always a better option to get away to safety or prevent the intrusion via security methods like bars on windows and heavy, locked doors.

IANAL.

I’d likely update it a few times a year, knowing me.

I think this needs to be clarified… I dont know anything that isn’t going to be getting security updates fairly regularly, which you’re going to want if its hooked up to the internet. Do you mean you don’t want to have to reboot often? Because that’s more doable, but bazzite is a bad choice for that, it can’t apply an update unless it reboots because of the immutable file system. Also cachyos is arch based so you’d likely be wanting to run updates around weekly.

Those problems exist in windows too, you are just used to them.

For example: Is my game data going to be in C:\Program Files<game folder>, or C:\Program Files (x86)<game folder>? Oh, no, maybe they are going to be in C:\Users<user name>\Saved Games? Maybe just C:\Users<user name>\Documents<game folder>?

How do you even get an installer for mspaint?? Like, I’m honestly baffled and intrigued at this point that mspaint is the “killer app” keeping someone on Windows and how one would even try to install it under wine…

I did a bit of hunting online and most people report no problems with the windows xp version of paint under wine, but 7 and later requires some tinkering because of missing .dll files or won’t work at all.

And here I thought everything in this comic was just sweating profusely, including the words on the laptop screen.

mspaint…? Is. Is this a troll?

Most of it works fine if the devs aren’t actively making it impossible to work under Wine, either as a conscious effort (which is more often than you would think) or as a side-effect of other shady practices like constant communication with servers for DRM that is poorly or aggressively implemented.

Check out Bottles. It has been great for getting stuff to work outside of steam - tons of options for different versions of wine and does most of the work for you. Although, you can just add any windows program you want to use Proton as a “non-steam game” in steam, and let steam sort it out with Proton. The downside there is that Steam will always be trying to tell people that you are “currently playing” whatever it is… So I used that for WoW (technically Blizzard launcher), but didn’t want to use that for just programs.

If by “port over stuff” you mean play your games, then you generally are going to do the same thing you would on Windows - go to steam, click the game, and click install. 98% of my library that I have tried playing since switching to Linux worked just that easily. A couple of games that I bought in early access or as soon as they released, I went into the properties for the game (in steam) and changed the compatibility setting to use “Proton Experimental” instead of whatever the default version was and then they worked fine. Disclaimer I do not play games that require kernal anti-cheat and have not for several years on principle. Many of those do not work in Linux as an active decision to block by the developers.

Now, if by “port over stuff” you are meaning you want to move your save games and the like, they might be a little trickier as the file paths will be different on Linux than Windows (because you don’t have the same OS file structure). You can usually find where they need to go relatively easily, and if you have been using cloud saves in Steam those should come over just fine without doing anything.

Sorta same, but my problems expand beyond just Mint… I had a lot of problems with Ubuntu several years back, so I was convinced to switch to Manjaro. That was an absolutely unabashed fucking nightmare. I thought I was either cursed or just too stupid for Linux for a while. I still don’t know if I just got very unlucky or if I was/am too stupid for the distros that everyone shouts praises from the rooftops for… I stumbled into Garuda Linux and it has been a dream come true.

Jesus christ my eyes are bleeding. What the fuck is even that?

This brought back some memories. I miss Fractured Space and Hawken, feel like they got taken too early. I just learned reading about it on that site’s listing that Fractured Space died because Wargaming bought the dev… Why buy the dev just to kill the game? :(

Logical next step, build all the nuclear reactors in space?

The job market is in the shitter and you are blaming the people trying to find jobs and assuming they can’t because they got a “bogus degree”… That’s a very boomer response of you.

omg, you use = for eyes, you sick fuck?