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andros_rex, (edited ) do games w Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

I play heavily modded Elder Scrolls, where my character never touches the main story.

My favorite Morrowind run was a princess who ended up creating an agricultural baron, buying up every plantation and owning probably hundreds of slaves. She also got into the skooma business on the side (needed money for all of her dresses). Morrowind had a ton of wacky mods that were just fun to play in general - people made Star Wars and LOTR questlines. There’s also the work of Tommy Khajiit (RIP), which is something unique and which has never gotten the respect it deserved. (Or Lady Rae - she liked to recolor the game bright neon colors, and basically got bullied out of the modding community.)

Skyrim is a hunting/vagrant simulator for me. I usually play a Dunmer refugee and avoid the in-game quests entirely. Survival and economy mods to make the focus of the gameplay getting enough gold to afford a room for the night, tweaks to loot to make things more “mundane.”

The Sims for me is either 1800s Utah polygamous Mormons, post apocalyptic Handmaid’s Tale scenarios, or prisons.

Elevator7009,

I always like to see people who go all in on the roleplaying in RPGs.

I do wish people would leave mods that aren’t for them alone. There are a bunch of mods extremely not to my taste that I just scroll past instead of intentionally clicking to tell the mod author just how much it is not to my taste and that they should not have made it because I am uninterested in the content.

andros_rex,

Modding is a really under appreciated art form.

Downloading unhinged Morrowind mods in the mid naughts exposed me to new franchises, music, ideas… Like this banger, which plays at some point in the Underground 2 along with this one. (btw, Dawnguard is Emil or whoever wrote it ripping off story beats from a 20 year old Morrowind mod based on the Underworld series lol - play both and don’t tell me that the Soul Cairn sequence isn’t inspired…)

SendMePhotos,

I’m not into mods but if I remember right, isn’t Lady Rae the one who left the modding community and started making music?

andros_rex,

Did she make music? Holy shit - if you have a link I’ve been trying to figure out what happened to her for years. She’s genuinely a major inspiration for my painting and art.

SendMePhotos,

Took some digging and I was incorrect. I was thinking of another modder.

Kukielle went from Skyrim mods to music: www.youtube.com/channel/UCqwchfbSVSfmpLMGe1fhE0w

gamesradar.com/…/it-makes-me-sick-popular-skyrim-…

mojofrododojo,
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The Sims for me is either 1800s Utah polygamous Mormons, post apocalyptic Handmaid’s Tale scenarios, or prisons.

lolwtf

andros_rex,

The prison mod is great for running the “re education” camps in the Handmaid’s Tale scenarios. I usually rezone all of the lots in Downtown to residential, and then explode a series of bombs across them (+ enhance with some assets ripped from the Fallout games). Occasionally I add in a zombie apocalypse to shake it up.

My Utah Mormons I play out the generation after they moved from Nauvoo. Clothing is period accurate, as much as possible. The goal is to populate an empty map, and find something to do with all of the extra men (wars, Indian raids…)

When I was ten and playing the original Sims, it was Roman families with historically accurate slavery (minus the sex stuff.)

Elevator7009,

then explode a series of bombs across them

Have not played The Sims in a hot minute, is this a mod? I don’t remember being able to do this.

ArtificialHoldings,
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I thought that was the Sims intended playstyle? You mean to tell me the developer didn’t intend for me to make a family of 8 of my friends, then trap them in a house until each of them dies one-by-one Hunger Games style? Then build a glorious mansion for the final one?

andros_rex,

Will Wright after seeing everything he owned in ashes after a series of major wildfires in the Palisades: “what if I made a virtual dollhouse for people to explore sexual and violent fantasies that would make Freud say, ‘no, that’s too much.’”

Elevator7009,

I get the tone is jokey but I wasn’t sure if that was a hypothetical alternate universe proposition with a different Will Wright, or something that happened in real life, so I looked up the wildfire thing.

Wright’s house was caught in the Oakland Hills firestorm.

Rebuilding his life, and having to reacquire so many of his basic possessions, fed into the idea for The Sims.

www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/…/ar-AA1yqxwx

Yep, real life and not just hypothetical, ouch.

simple, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Most people won’t budge. It doesn’t matter if Win10 is unsupported or isn’t getting a security update, I reckon a solid 40 of 43% will just stay on it until programs they use stop working.

justsquigglez,
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Basically my plan until I can scrounge enough money up for a new computer. My current one literally won’t let me upgrade due to some component/driver it lacks.

tyler,

You can pay to keep getting windows security updates and prolong the upgrade even further.

wreckedcarzz,
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“you can pay us, and we won’t break your legs for a while longer” -ms

W10 IoT is a thing, and will get updates for a few more years, no mafia shakedown required.

Cethin,

It’ll let you upgrade to Linux. It doesn’t play those stupid games with you like MS does.

KazuyaDarklight,
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For some of the hardware requirements, there are edits you can make to get it to install, but you do have to also force it every time there is a major release, minor updates go through fine.

beastlykings,

Definitely you should look into Linux, it’s really gotten quite good. Especially if you don’t need games with anti cheat.

But if you just want to use Windows 11, it’s super duper easy. Just Google “download Windows 11 iso” and grab the iso file from Microsoft website.

Then download Rufus.

Then pop in a thumb drive that’s at least 8gb. Open Rufus, select your thumb drive and the iso, then choose the option to remove windows requirements, then click start.

Backup your files on Windows 10, save them somewhere. Then pop in the thumb drive and install windows 11 fresh.

The requirements aren’t actually required. Win 11 runs fine on all sorts of hardware. Support stops at 8th Gen Intel, but I’ve installed it on 5th Gen. My work laptop is 2nd or 3rd Gen. It’s fine 🤷‍♂️

Technically less secure? Yeah, in some ways. But it’s miles ahead of running unpatched windows 10 after September.

justsquigglez,
@justsquigglez@lemm.ee avatar

Oh shit this is actually really helpful, I might end up doing the Rufus USB route when I get my stuff back up and running (apartment flooded and I have to wait until the finish fixing my ceiling before I can plug everything back up.)

Thanks for the in-depth info!

murd0x,

What comes after fresh install? Massgrave ?

venotic,
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I predict Valve will stop supporting Windows 10 in probably another 3 - 4 years at most.

Zoomboingding,
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Yeah I’m just going to stick on Win 10 for a while. Apparently the enterprise version is getting support for longer so maybe I’ll see if I can get on that.

emb,

Yep, I feel like people overestimate how much anyone cares about official support or security patches or whatever. People will assume it’s fine until they’re either forced out or something goes horribly wrong.

Regular folks will most likely let it be if possible, until it’s time for a new PC anyway.

zipzoopaboop,

Like the climate

blandfordforever,

My brother in law was still using windows 7 and it had never occurred to him that this might be a security risk. Normal people don’t care.

brightandshinyobject,

Windows 10 ltsc massgrave.dev

GoodLuckToFriends,

Yep. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but valve dropping support for windows 7 was what made me switch to linux. Until the computer stops working for the average user, they won’t change.

LockheedTheDragon, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

I’m going to move over to Mint on my laptop, it’s older but still working great after I swapped an SSD drive in. Biggest issue is backing up the laptop before installing Linux. I have another computer I plan on duel boot with Windows 10 so I have access if I need windows for certain programs. I have no control over my work computer so Windows 11 there.

And unless one of my brothers steps up and buys our Dad a Windows 11 computer (I bought the Windows 10 computer, which is why it was so cheap it can’t take 11. 😆 ) since I’m his tech support if my brothers don’t step up he is going to Linux. No matter what I’m going to have to listen to him complain about how it is different so it will be a good time to move to Linux. Probably a version that tries to mimic Windows.

darthelmet, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

I got a new PC recently so unfortunately I am now on Windows 11. I’ve been wanting to make the swap to Linux but I can’t really make a clean break because at least some of the games I play a lot won’t work on Linux. I do think I’m gonna try to set up another hard drive with Linux on it to try to slowly start learning it and ideally move over anything that I can over there eventually and just keep the windows drive for those few games.

Does anyone have any recommendations related to that? Distro for gaming/ease of use? What’s the best option for setting up the dual boot? Anything I wouldn’t have thought of that’s relevant?

Zwrt,

What games are they?

One of the reasons i am sticking with Arch is because steamdeck os is build on it, whats good enough to game for valve is good enough for me.

I have both Arch and my old windows install on separate m.2 ssds. By default i log into the arch one which uses the windows ssd as a game installation drive.

This way when i do have to use windows for some game modding or testing, i can easily access and sometimes run the games from there.

darthelmet,

There’s a spattering of steam games that don’t list Linux support. Probably the ones I play the most are Deep Rock Galactic and Last Epoch. Outside of Steam I play TFT a lot, which doesn’t work on Linux since they added the anti-cheat software.

Zwrt,

Those first two are reported to work incredibly well using proton compatibility on steam. Proton is not the same as native support, which is why its not mentioned in any official game Information but it is native to steam. (Also works in heroic and litrus for gog/epic/other)

A platinum (community) rating is as high as it gets, may as well be native or better then on windows.

www.protondb.com/app/548430

www.protondb.com/app/899770

For TFT i found they use the same anti cheat as some other games. Used to work before, no longer does now but with dual boot all your current stuff is just a minute away (windows updates not included)

darthelmet,

Cool. Didn’t know about that site. Thanks.

Kurallier,
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If you’re a tech savvy person then I’d recomend Arch, but if you’d prefer a more streamlined approach then Baazite, PopOs, and Mint are all good starting points. As for dual booting, no matter which distro of linux you use you’ll use something called GRUB. The tl;dr of grub is that it’ll let you select which operating system you want to boot into when you boot up your pc

Buddahriffic,

Just in case you are thinking this like I used to, don’t go by “unplayable on steam deck” to determine what games you won’t be able to play on a Linux desktop. While those games include incompatible with Linux games, they also include ones that the deck hardware can’t handle at a decent framerate but otherwise play fine on Linux.

darthelmet,

Oh I was looking at system requirements on the store page. Is that accurate?

MoistOwlette,

no. you can play a crap load of “windows only” games on linux. the trick is to enable steam play in steam settings and use community versions of proton. works like a charm

racketlauncher831,

Since your computer is running Windows 11 already, I would recommend you look for a Linux distro without considering if it’s gaming-friendly. Linux is great for certain productivity tasks.

For dualbooting, most official Linux installation guides offer detailed steps for that. Grub (the boot management program) is well tested and widely used.

Adulated_Aspersion, do games w I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists?

Mercenaries / 2

kerrigan778, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

What does Bill Gates have to do with this, he hasn’t been directly involved in Microsoft in 17 years? He hasn’t even been on the board for 5 years.

Kobie123, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Dual booting with EndeavourOS now. Once i know i can repeat my workflow on it, i’ll switch over for good.

rikudou, do games w Day 263 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing
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That game’s really great, definitely better than at launch. Still many bugs, but it’s been fun playing with my partner on our local server.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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It’s addicting to play. I was up until like 3 AM playing some more. Most of the bugs don’t seem game breaking though which is nice. My Linux PC’s Bluetooth broke midway through though, but that could be a Linux issue and not the Game’s fault. It’s always a mixed bag for me with these issues

Statick, do games w Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

I used to only do something called “surfing” in the Counter-Strike: Source days.

There are dedicated servers that only run surf maps.

whotookkarl,
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world avatar

There was a game called tribes that combined the surfing/skiing movement with combat before the counterstrike mod levels came out, it was pretty fun the sequel tribes 2 was pretty popular for a minute when it came out too. But the skill ceiling on some of those cs surf maps was wild.

Agent641,

TF2 Had surf maps too, and I spent an embarrassing amount of time on those. Got super good at it too.

match,
@match@pawb.social avatar

you might enjoy the game Haste, it has a demo on steam

Million,

Source best game.

I still have KSF Clan server list in my bookmarks for easy access. When theres nothing to play, just play surf.

Also, shoutout to momentum mod, a standalone game with surf, bhop, defrag, rocket jump, sticky jump and more in one single game. Coming out soon ™️

Hazelnutcookiez,

100% of my CS playtime is surfing it’s so fun.

JigglySackles, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

It’s tricky because I have things that just don’t translate well to linux, or become considerably more expensive or time consuming to manage / deal with. Linux has a lot to offer and a lot of great. But I’m just going to keep running an out of date OS until I can switch.

CeeBee_Eh,

What kind of things are holding you back?

JigglySackles,

I don’t want to get into a big debate on it so if you are just curious and have a couple suggestions I’m down to talk about it. But I’m tired of people telling me that my reasoning isn’t good enough for them. Like, great, thanks, glad you can be happy with it, but we aren’t the same person. So I’d prefer to avoid any conversation where I’m just told to suck it up and deal with something. I am working on finding alternatives but all the ones I’ve come across so far are coming up short in a way that’s non negotiable.

My biggest one is my O365 bundle with office apps, oneNote, and OneDrive.

I am going to be trying out libreoffice and OpenOffice this year to see if I can replace word and excel. Last time I tried they weren’t there for me.

OneNote is my second most vital. I’m looking at Notesnook at the moment but I’m really not enthused by a monthly price or the idea of self-hosting in a docker container. I’ve hated most note apps and OneNote was the only one I’ve clicked with so far. I refuse to touch markdown so that kills a lot of them. I’m taking notes with minor edits, and I refuse to add markdown to the process just to do that. I also will not be ok with a webapp. I don’t like webapps in general.

OneDrive is probably my most vital. I have 1TB for me and 1TB each for 5 family accounts. So 6TB total. And I definitely use the space. On top of that I rely heavily on its integration to the file explorer and the mfa locked personal vault section. I don’t want to deal with a web interface or separate app, outside of an authentication hook for the vault, just to access storage.

Outside of the 365 bundle, it’s mostly running dedicated game servers that have no Linux option. And that’s it I believe. Certainly the most impactful applications. I think most other things I run, I can find acceptable alternatives to or can run in wine or something similar without major issue.

CeeBee_Eh,

I wasn’t going to berate you or anything. I was genuinely curious.

I am going to be trying out libreoffice and OpenOffice

LibreOffice is great. I use it on my work system at a medium to larger sized company (every single other person uses o365). I haven’t heard anyone complain yet about doc comparability and I haven’t had any issues myself.

Stay away from OpenOffice. It’s practically a dead product. When Oracle bought OpenOffice, the community forked the project which became LibreOffice. LibreOffice is where all the development and community focus and effort has gone since.

OneNote is my second most vital

I don’t have any recommendations here. I’ve never really found a “perfect” solution for this. Currently I use a few different solutions, but it’s all centred around markdown, so they’re all interchangeable.

OneDrive is probably my most vital.

I personally wouldn’t touch OneDrive with a hundred meter pole. MS does so much screwing around with your data that you can never be sure if the data stored is what you uploaded. They’ve been known to just up and delete files they scan and think is malicious, even if it’s a false positive. Then they’re known to scan all your documents for everything, including potential passwords, then use those passwords to open password-protected files and then scan them also.

Then there’s the situation from a year or so ago where they automatically switched everyone’s documents folder to a “cloud first” folder, where they just auto-uploaded everyone’s local files, deleted the local copies, and did it all without user consent or even informing users. And this resulted in all kinds of wild crap like people not having access to their documents because they were offline and were expecting local files. Then some people had their metered data connection getting maxed out. While others couldn’t even modify their files or even save a file to their “My Documents” folder because the default storage allocation was far less than the total data of their local files. So effectively the data was held for ransom.

it’s mostly running dedicated game servers that have no Linux option.

Most newer games that you can run your own dedicated server will almost certainly have a Linux option, which suggests you might taking about older games, in which case something like Lutris (Wine) might be an option.

But are you hosting these game servers on your desktop?

JigglySackles,

Yeah I know OneDrive is a bad option anymore. I’m definitely looking for options there but nothing is coming close so far. Hardest part is space but each requirement presents an issue.

Thanks for telling me about openoffice, looking at things i think i meamt Only Office. Any opinions there? I’m not keen on the AI push but it also seems optional. Thanks for the positive endorsement for Libre being compatible in an office setting. Looks like they have a good dark mode too which I’m very happy about. I love having a black background to write against and has stopped me from adopting things in the past. I can’t do white backed apps anymore. They hurt lol

The hosting is on my old desktop which is running server 2016. I’d like to replace the OS on it too. I don’t keep the box online so I’m not keen on using it for anything other than game servers.

Appreciate you not going aggro on me over it. Lots of times I mention not being quite there for migrating it gets into this really aggravating back and forth where someone aggressively pushes Linux at me and doesn’t like that I’m not instantly on board or that I have reasons they don’t like. 🙄

CeeBee_Eh,

looking at things i think i meamt Only Office. Any opinions there?

If I remember correctly, Only Office uses LibreOffice as its core and then adds or changes default stuff. I might be wrong about that. But ultimately I hear positive things about Only Office.

The hosting is on my old desktop which is running server 2016. I’d like to replace the OS on it too. I don’t keep the box online so I’m not keen on using it for anything other than game servers.

Sounds like a perfect situation for loading something like Proxmox and then visualizing the Windows Server 2016 instance. You would basically have the exact same functionality but with way more options like cloning and backing up the server.

Appreciate you not going aggro on me over it.

No worries at all. I think the automatic defensiveness from Linux people comes from old misconceptions being repeated often. Or sometimes it comes from how something is read and interpreted. Someone might say “I can’t switch because I need XYZ”, to which a very literal response is “you can use ABC which does the same thing, so you can switch”. When what the first person meant is "I can’t switch because I prefer XYZ", which is a completely valid reason.

JigglySackles,

Right on, I’ll have to check out proxmox, i don’t have any experience with it yet. That’d be dope to switch at least one computer over to something linix based.

Boris, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

I switched to Linux mate and been using heroic games launcher for the windows games I want to play

doingthestuff, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

This sounds like October’s problem.

ddash,

October 2025, right?

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Right?

MutilationWave,

10 bucks says they delay it.

doingthestuff,

Yeah I do OS installs for other people all the time but my main PC is a hot mess and I run a bunch of problematic software including VR. I’ll probably end up setting up a dual boot of Win11 & Linux and avoid Windows as much as possible. But I will procrastinate because I already use both OS’s on other PCs so I know what to expect. I’ll put it off as long as possible, hoping they postpone. Never do today what you can put off til next year :)

blindbandit, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

I already switched to Bazzite Desktop and it’s been so good. I had some pains configuring somethings to my liking, but that was more due to me not being familiar with Linux. I’m never going back.

Tangent5280,

If I was considering Bazzite and Pop OS as options, which would you suggest I go with?

blindbandit,

Well, I cannot comment about PopOS because I simply don’t know how it is, but Bazzite on desktop has been great. I didn’t need to install anything related to gaming because it already comes with everything on it.

Pretty much anything I needed is on the discovery store and it’s handled like the app store on Android, so no headache of messing it up with installations or worrying about updates. Although, Bazzite is an immutable OS so anything that you need to install that’s not on the store can be a headache.

Also, my computer is an old laptop, so I got a performance boost as the system feels way smoother now than with Windows.

About games, I played some indie games on Steam and Lutris and it worked flawlessly. But do note that for more recent systems, it appears to be some headaches, especially with NVIDIA graphics cards. I only play new games on streaming services, so I don’t have those problems. But I do have some problems with the streaming service using my 8BitDo controller, but it’s not related to the system, it’s related to the service’s bad drivers. When I stream the game using Steam, it’s smooth sailing.

rolling,

I have used both Bazzite and PopOs for more then a year. They are both great distros. The reason I stuck with Bazzite is ease of updates since its immutable (I am lazy and updated PopOS only when I absolutely needed, and updating bunch of system packadges after a long time always causes something else to screw up). PopOS on the other hand gives you complete control over how to install things, and system configuration.

TLDR, if you are a power user, then decide based on if you want an immutable system or not. If you are not, you can just flip a coin and choose, Bazzite has better ease of use compored to PopOS on theory, but if you encounter issues PopOS will be easier to troubleshoot because it has more users / information online.

lnxtx, do wolnyinternet w Jak możemy zmodyfikować ustawę o informacji publicznej tak, żeby zobowiązać podmioty publiczne do wdrożenia przynajmniej częściowo otwartych standardów?
@lnxtx@feddit.nl avatar

Zakaz prowadzenia działalności o charakterze medialnym (samorządowe gazety, portale informacyjne, …).
Ale to nie w tej ustawie.

Worstdriver, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

I have no plans to either update to win11 or change back to chanting magic spells at my computer to get it to work (Ubuntu, many years ago).

My computer works and does everything I want it to. Basic internet security and reasonable precautions are sufficient for a low level user like me to stay safe.

ploot,

The Linux experience has changed quite a lot over the years. You’re unlikely to have trouble getting your computer to work with it now.

Worstdriver,

Possibly/Probably but as I said. Right now win 10 runs all my productivity, gaming and streaming software such as OBS and Veadotube.

They run and run well. I have literally no incentive to switch to either a Linux distro or win11. If that changes, then I’ll consider changing my OS, but until then…why would anyone?

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