As others have mentioned, it’s not really anything I even think about any more. The other day I bought Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary, installed it and was playing it before I even thought that I should have checked for compatibility first.
The biggest question is deciding which OS you want to install… I went with Nobara because it already had all of the dependencies needed for Steam, but it is not the only distro that comes ‘Steam ready’.
I heard Mint is closest to the window experience, not sure about steam ready though, i didn’t know that is a thing i need to watch out for. i think i might try that first
I use mint with steam. No real issues at this point.
If you can. Get an external solid state drive and install Linus there to figure out any issues then if you screw up, you still have windows 10 as back up until you figure out all the issues. Then when you are ready wipe windows and install Linux that way
I think Mint is the cleanest recommendation when you don’t want to be held liable for issues; but for gaming specifically, I ended up liking CachyOS a bit more.
It’s very bleeding-edge, which if you know tech is often a good and bad thing. But games work well. It is not quite so clean with things like installing popular apps - I’m using a package manager called “bauh”, which is relatively new, unrefined, but works. I still end up installing a few things from terminal, which I know shouldn’t be needed for casual users.
Last I tried Mint was early in the year and I think I installed from an old version. It could be what few gaming issues I saw are gone.
Don’t see why you wouldn’t be just fine. I am playing Dune Awakening right now on my Linux machine. There’s the proton db website to help if you run into issues, but I haven’t had any so far. If I have a problem with a game, I usually force it to an older version of proton, or just fiddle with the versions and that usually fixes things.
Drives are cheap. Get a new drive, pull out the windows drive and put in the new blank drive and install linux and give it all a try. I just bought a new gaming laptop and the first thing I did before powering it up was swap out the nvme drive to a larger empty one and installed PopOs to match my desktop machine. It’s working just fine.
I just enjoy sharing the screenshots mostly. Honestly I wish I could put more time into it. I have a huge cutting room floor of pictures and things I want to talk about in games that I just don’t get time too or just don’t make for very good discussion
Last time I actually heard of review bombing was for Helldivers 2. So for me it feels like there hasn’t been a big public review bombing event in a long time, and reviews can filtered by country, time, and there’s warnings when there are unusual spikes.
So for me no I had forgotten about it, since it hasn’t made headlines in a while.
Not sure if you’re already familiar with other games in the genre, but look into anything among the modern 'Roguelike’s. While there are skill elements, they’re sure to mix in enough luck-based mechanics that you usually feel like you could have won with better luck.
Besides Balatro, the other mega-popular recent games along this line are Slay the Spire and Vampire Survirors. If you haven’t already played those, definitely check them out.
For deeper cuts, I don’t know. I’ll just add this would also be a good thread to crosspost to !videogamesuggestions
Bit busy so can’t make a long comment. Just wanted to say, welcome to the ‘dark’ side. I highly recommend to check the instance in on for everything you need (Megathread). It tells you where to look, which safety measures to take etc.
I wanted to purchase Metaphor Refantzio because the game seems good and then figured out they blatantly said “you don’t own Metaphor even if you purchase it”. Thus decided to pirate it (it isn’t cracked but it is playable).
And so on. After a few stacks of that debuff, and you can 1-hit-kill any foe with a spell that deals damage.
Weakness to Magic also works on the player character and it will amplify the effect of buffs. Stacking it before casting your buff spells lets you walk around with millions of health, stamina, and mana for short periods of time.
I think anything that increases friction is bound to cause adoption issues.
If you’re fine with that, then I’d recommend making the price for individual licenses public so people know what they’re getting into, maybe with an asterisk that the price is negotiable (if it is).
How would you take care of problem with every currency in the world because they are going the way of the Roman Imperial currency and what about the credit card processor issues how do you take care of that, do you think I should clarify that the price is something that costs $1.00 or $0.25 today for example so there will be a baseline price.
Head over to LinkedIn and contact the culprit directly. Choose your words wisely, as they’ll certainly block you before you can get to your second barrage of abuse.
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