Bricky is entertaining and laces the lore with memes. Easy entry to the lore, if a bit wrong at times - or so I’ve been told. “Close enough”, imo.

kinda wild a file-link ever went straight to executing it after download - which on it’s own could be dangerous as well.

I guess the “the s in IOT stands for security” also applies to notepad: “the s in vibecoding stands for security”

heh, ofc. Apparently something to do with file:// and such uri handling, apparently executing local files? Yikes.

notepad has formatting now? o_O

does it produce markdown or something?

I don’t know, I don’t play cod. See the links from previous replies for that.

as for should you get linux, only you can answer that once you’ve done the research

The daw/music software? Just wine. used wine to install the app & vst plugins, then just using the “start menu” shortcut for the app to run it. I did have to use winetricks to install dxvk on the prefix (without it, some plugin ui’s did not work properly), but after that it works fine.

as for “does it run good” - well enough for me. Some of the guitar/bass amps and instruments I use seem to use noticeably more cpu than on windows

yep, this.

basically, games that need some extra dll file to get mods running, it’s generally just adding WINEDLLOVERRIDES=“nameofthedll=n,b” as env var for the game and off to modded adventures it is.

I haven’t tested this, but fairly sure you could just install vortex, mo2 or whatever other modmanager to same prefix as where the game is.

Depends really on the games and software you require.

For games, check:

• https://www.protondb.com/ - people post their experiences with games if they work or not.
• https://areweanticheatyet.com/ - lists of anticheat enabled games which work or not.
• https://appdb.winehq.org/ - wine’s appdb has games and general applications listed, with some info on how they work or not. Some info is absolutely ancient at this point.

In general, indies and singleplayer games generally work fine. Battlefield/Fortnite/etc hugely popular multiplayer stuff with kernel-level anticheats generally doesn’t.

I’ve only ever set up few printers to work on linux, and they’ve been bigger office printers. And they’ve all worked with minimal effort. Absolutely no idea about home printers.

edit: as for windows software support, generally win-apps run on wine. Some really well, some with issues, and then some just dont. Afaik eg. ancient versions of Photoshop run, more recent ones don’t.

I run a windows version of a music software (renoise) because my effects/instruments have only windows versions. It works, but performance isn’t quite as good as it was on actual windows.

could have something to do with the odd, and massive, influx of new win10 users?

doesn’t either of the loopback devices provide desktop audio?

this must be the flex-box that’s all the rage

It the map has locations named and there’s a compass, I’ll manage. The quest pointer in later bethesda games is “a bit” too much handholding, imo. But that said I’ve seen some mw memes about some cube and how hard it is to find… No idea what that’s about but probably going to find out :P

so, I take there’s no in-game map then? oof, but I can deal with map on second monitor.

attacks not connecting might bug me a bit, but I suspect there’s some mod for that if it ends up breaking my brain.

Thanks, these were good to know stuff!

ah, in that case I’m gonna venture forth without it. Expansions are cool, but I kinda want to get my feet wet with the base game first. QoL mods which make the experience have “less friction” I’m entirely fine with

oh for sure (near vanilla) experience for first time. Gameplay changing mods etc are for playthroughs after the first one.

I take the Tamrield Rebuilt mods are mostly quality-of-life -stuff?

I’ve been meaning to check out Morrowind, most people have been frothing about it since forever and… tbh, only Elder Scrolls game I have really played has been Skyrim, only dabbled with Oblivion and Morrowind.

And… oh, OpenMW is in my linux distro’s repository too, that’s one barrier removed already! I take MW is quite a bit more approachable than Daggerfall, but probably quite a bit less than eg. Skyrim?

I’ve been waiting for this demo, right off the bat I have 2 technical points to raise:

• please offer a toggle for the filmgrain/noise. streamers and youtubers will thank you, as that stuff absolutely murders capture quality.
• my framerate tanked to 35 and stayed there after the intro interrogation, which ran fine at stable 120 fps (uncapped, vsync). Using linux + proton-ge, rtx3090, r5800x3d, 64gb

it does the “same thing” but it’s the low-iq unga-bunga-caveman option which requires less configuration. Meaning you don’t get a boot menu to choose the os on boot.

if you want to be extra careful, just remove the ssd of the first os when installing the other on it’s ssd & insert back when done. then just in bios/uefi switch which storage device to boot from.

FWIW, I dualbooted for years fine with win10 and Arch - the trick is to keep them separated. let windows have it’s own ssd and linux it’s own, that way the darn windows don’t nuke other boot entries willynilly when notepad gets an update.

This approach needs 2 storage devices tho, and you switch which to boot from bios/uefi.

But on the upside, this makes no changes to either linux or windows, as both are on separate storage devices. Both have their own boot partitions. When you want to get rid of either, you can just remove partitions from the unwanted os’ ssd and make new ones.

so… FBC: Firebreak 2: MTX Boogaloo: Revenge