I 100% get what you are saying. But I’m also 100% fine with voting with my wallet by not supporting game developers that demand kernel-level access to my machine.

Think about the EA stuff. You install one of their games, and now Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner* have kernel-level access to your machine. Why, why the hell is that worth it for just a game?

*I wish I was joking

Should i unplug everything other than the new drive, and have the installer do it automatically?

This is what I did. Made the installer mostly a bunch of hitting ‘next’.

Plus, I don’t trust Windows to not fuck up my Linux drive, so when I used to dual boot, I would only have one or the other in the computer. Though, haven’t booted into the Windows drive for months now.

He did make a new, expanded version about two years ago. I’m probably going to give the mod a go. :)

They already made this remake. You can buy it on Steam for $10.

Remake #2 is getting kinda lazy…

Yet another reason the ‘just turn it off’ crowd is not making a good argument.

With Microsoft, there is always another thing to turn off. It’s never-ending wack-a-mole.

please don’t mention Heroic or Lutris because they barely work either

Odd, been enjoying Silksong and earlier Baldur’s Gate 3 via Heroic (GOG) and it just works on Linux. Not sure what the ‘barely works’ part you are talking about is. Hell, half the games I buy are through GOG now. Only one I had to do anything for is Breath of Fire IV, which isn’t even offered on Steam…

I’m all for this. Game exclusivity prevents many from enjoying them.

GOG is doing wonders for the later as well. Just recently enjoyed a run of Breath of Fire IV. :)

Unironically, yes. Keep the kernel-level anti-cheat shit off my computer.

Good news, you can download and run Microsoft Teams in Linux. I have no clue why you would want to do this, but you can!

Considering the Steam Deck is the PC handheld market leader, doesn’t run the bloat that is Windows 11, and is vastly cheaper than the Ally X, I’m really confused on why they didn’t include it in the comparison. Literally not even a mention of the Steam Deck in the article.

The Ally X is a really, really bad value proposition compared to the Steam Deck. A 3-way comparison would have been much more interesting.

The best situation for consumers is for games to come out on as many platforms as possible. Exclusives are cancer. It’s awesome to see less and less of them every generation.

Mass Effect 2 was the last great game Bioware made. So, yeah.

EA is well known for turning studios to shit. They have quite the impressive graveyard at this point.

Nintendo just continues to go down the shitter.

I’m still amazed they were able to get the patents for summoning a creature and for a flying mount to transition into a ground mount. It isn’t like almost every RPG since ever has done one or both of those. But, according to Nintendo, they should be the only ones who can do either!

It would be really funny if Microsoft, owner of World of Warcraft, sues the fuck out of Nintendo over this. One can dream…

It’s also unreasonable to have to wait FIFTEEN MINUTES after every setting change to verify it did what you need.

Edit: OP corrected the link. Please support Gamer’s Nexus.

This is a re-upload by a third party. Which is perfectly acceptable, but do note it’s not back up on Gamer’s Nexus’ page.

Downvoting since this is a game guide/spoilers, and not something that is intended to be brought to someone’s attention. If someone is confused about how to get this, they will either figure it out or look it up and come to this article themselves.

In fact, I’m now annoyed to find out heavy attacks are a thing in the game. I haven’t gotten to that part yet and finding new things yourself is half the point of a metroidvania.

Naw, 5 and 6 are where it is at.

Phison swears up and down there is nothing to see here. Yet, guy in the video is reproducing it on-camera.

Valve clearly uses a base-3 numbering system. Next installment after 2 is Half Life 10. ;p

Wooo! One of the few games I have been looking forward to. Decent chance I get this shortly after release when the reviews say it is good.

I have a very specific memory of coming in with a jet to shoot one of my buddies in a chopper. Then he does a damn barrel roll, dropping well out of my cone of fire almost instantly.

The helicopters in Desert Combat gave you a ton of control. They were a quite simplistic compared to DCS, which is where I get my aircraft fix now, but I really enjoyed the wild shit you could pull with them if you got good.

We transitioned to boardgame parties. Works much better as you can’t do those online.

We tried Tabletop Simulator; it works, but it’s not nearly as good as in-person boardgames.

Yet no other game requires secure boot and plenty of them don’t require kernel level access either. Many of those games have no such cheating problem.

It’s a cop-out because they aren’t good at their jobs and instead want to gobble up more and more access to your computer instead.

Root kernel access isn’t enough for them? Jesus fuck are they greedy.

People buying Steam decks are likely the majority of those numbers.

The Steam Deck shows up as Arch Linux in the steam numbers; Arch is only 10.7% of the Linux user-base on Steam. And this is on top of the fact desktop Arch Linux is a thing as well sharing space in that line-item.

The Steam Deck (and Microsoft tomfoolery) certainly was the catalyst for the current wave of adoption, but it is barely a notable percentage of Linux installs on Steam.

An interesting fact: English-language adoption of Linux on Steam is over 2x the overall, all-language adoption. This mostly cuts out Chinese (25% of users), Russian (8% of users), and Spanish (5% of users). Seems America and Europe is adopting at record pace while China isn’t.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

Just avoid the games that use them.

Agreed. I have no desire to give EA root access to my system, full access to everything I do on it … just to play a game.

I’m amazed Microsoft even allows such on their platform, given how large of a vulnerability it creates; as CrowdStrike demonstrated.

Bazzite is the go-to gaming distro. It’s basically Steam OS.

I’m personally a fan of Mint (old, stable) or Fedora Plasma (cutting edge), as both feel very familiar coming from Windows. I went with Mint personally.

This is a great use-case for a live Linux environment. Throw one onto a drive and see if it works well, and if not, just restart and go back to what you have.

But, like you said, not a big deal either way.

If you have a desktop, these work great for swapping SSDs out. Get a pair and swap them out whenever you need/want to. You just need a spare x4 (or larger) PCI-e slot, which is pretty common to have. (Technically they work fine with a x1 slot, but then you are slowing the SSD down.)

What do you mean OSes are sticky as hell?

What are your feelings on switching to a different OS, such as MacOS?

I’m currently on Arch … I’m thinking of switching to gentoo

These are both the same OS: Linux. And one of the nice things is Linux lets you switch around so much at-will as you are thinking of doing.

what “many 3rd party companies” are you talking about?

When I switched to Mint about 6 months ago, most of my programs existed on both. And my games just worked. That wasn’t the case just a few years ago.

Whereas EA are still actively blocking Proton in the BF6 beta?

I can’t imagine wanting to give EA root access to your entire system, full access to everything you do on your computer…just to play a game. I’m honestly surprised Microsoft still allows such on their platform, it’s a massive vulnerability to users, as CrowdStrike demonstrated.

Steam has over 132 million monthly active users

That month on month Linux expansion is ~422,000 computers. That is a shitload of people switching in just a single month.

OSes are sticky as hell. People don’t like switching. As Linux attracts these people away from Microsoft, MS is not going to get them back. And importantly, the adoption rate is high enough that many 3rd party companies are taking notice and releasing for both.

11% month on month expansion is fucking crazy. You can see from the data it’s mostly Windows 10 users deciding to upgrade to Linux…and even OSX.

Better than VII!

Yeah, I’m just going to wait and see. If it’s good, I’ll buy it, otherwise I won’t.

DCS (Digital Combat Simulator)

Tons of well-simulated combat aircraft. IL-2 is probably the closest simulator to it.

Don’t finance DLC purchases. If you are that bad off for money, you need to just play the games you already own.

followed by (unless you’ve been very very careful) a total lack of anything productive for 95% of any of those people to do for the forseeable future

It amazes me these game companies putting out game after game don’t simply reassign these people to a future game. These are your seasoned veterans, they know how to do their job. Laying them off and picking up newbies just sets you up for a rocky future.