Really I think a temporary dual boot to test everything would be the sanest option, and then when you’re ready to commit, back up your home folder and repartition your drive accordingly. If you end up never ready to commit, well, second-gen Ryzen is officially supported on Windows 11 as long as you enable fTPM and Secure Boot in your BIOS.

Here’s a few pointers based on what I’ve found out:

1. The desktop environment or WM is important. Given your need for Steam Link to work I’d suggest using one with X11, as last I checked Steam Link just gives you a black screen and audio under Wayland. Linux Mint would carry over your knowledge of apt while maintaining an interface that’s pretty familiar to Windows users and is I believe still an X11 distro for now.
2. I got the EA app working using Bottles but it constantly feels like a cat-and-mouse game fixing it whenever it has an update. I basically stopped using it altogether for that reason. Not trying to scare you off — it’s just not a great experience.
3. Play with drivers for your GPU. The situation with Nvidia is, I’m told, not as dire as it once was on Linux but still needs more work than AMD or Intel graphics to work well. The proprietary driver may still give the best experience on games, though Nouveau seems to be doing very well. This is admittedly something I need to come back to in order to confirm (I have one machine with Nvidia graphics and it’s in storage specifically because Nvidia graphics under Linux were such a pain).

I’ve clearly been doing the purse thing all wrong

The kids are alright

Gungrave G.O.R.E, since the headline doesn’t say

It’ll be compatible with 5 Gbps devices, but if you’re intentionally looking to restrict even 10 Gbps devices down to 5 Gbps for some reason, you might be able to find something in your BIOS that lets you do that, or you can get a USB 3.0 extension cable that’ll limit your speeds to 5 Gbps.

Damn, this is a shame. Penny’s Big Breakaway has been the most fun I’ve had on a game for a while, but I kind of expected it wasn’t going to be a huge success for people who hadn’t been following the Evening Star team for years with a new and unproven IP and a rather unique gameplay style among platformers.

Same energy as “Sappho and her friend”

Figma balls

English-speaking countries try not to police other English-speaking countries’ dialects challenge (impossible)

Respectfully, this is unhelpful. This is talking about Unplugged, a completely different company, in reply to Phi.

Yup, addressed in my original reply.

You’ll have substantially better results from modern integrated graphics (even on the low-end Intel UHD side). This is genuinely the card you get if you just need the extra outputs and don’t care about performance, or you have a CPU lacking integrated graphics and don’t care about performance.

In other words, there are use cases for it, but I absolutely agree that a gaming card this is not and it has a very specific niche.

I would argue that NixOS absolutely is the OS you get if your time is worthless, but not every distro is the same. I’d argue that if you need something that doesn’t have so many issues a stabler or easier to use distro (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, and even Fedora or openSUSE) is going to be a better option than trying to bend specifically NixOS to do what you want.

I personally use a mix of Pop, Debian, and Fedora, not because they’re particularly powerful, but because they tend to be more straightforward for what I want to do than NixOS, Gentoo, or Arch. I don’t mind tinkering, but for my main machines I don’t want to tinker much.

Edit: I should clarify that there are plenty of reasonable uses of Windows and I don’t fault anyone for using it especially if their familiarity is keeping them from understanding Linux as well as they want to. But I also would make the case that there are a lot of distros out there.

I like this one, it’s pretty cute and has a neat gameplay concept involving “hacking” other robots to get to places you can’t get to with your regular ball form. It’s rather short; I have 45 minutes clocked in it on Steam and have gone through the whole game and gotten all its collectibles.

If you’re using Linux, use Proton 9.0 or Experimental; earlier versions will play the game without any audio.

I hope I’m not the only one who finds these endless Chromium forks extremely yawn-inducing. I realize that rolling your own rendering and JavaScript engines from scratch isn’t totally feasible, but Firefox is right there.

The info from the Steam Hardware Survey is collected on an opt-in basis. I’m sure Valve has plenty of ways to get this information otherwise, but this specific data set requires acceptance of the terms of the survey.

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I think their joke was that Thinkpad Arch users (at least online) have a strong correlation with trans women

I’ve also had this issue with both of my SN30 Pro+ controllers but haven’t really found a reliable fix. Sometimes it works if I connect it undocked, and then plug the Deck into the dock, but that doesn’t always work. It’s a shame because it used to work great!

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