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  • Pop!_OS in early 2023, I used it for about 3 weeks before my bootloader broke so bad even Pops own recovery tool couldn’t fix it. I went back to Windows 10 for another month before trying again with EndeavourOS and haven’t had to use Windows since.

    Funnily the thing that triggered me to install Linux on a spare SSD was I couldn’t play Battlefield 4 on my Windows install anymore because the EA app randomly stopped working even after reinstalling the whole thing, Got the EA app and BF4 working on Pop within an hour.



  • Honestly might be the other way around for me. I was mainly a multiplayer guy for the longest time but most franchises I was invested in quickly went down the drain and a lot of the newer battle-royal style shooters didn’t appeal to me.

    Started mainly playing older games that had been on my backlog for a while. And videos of the Steamdeck running them games started popping up.

    So since I already hated Windows 10 from the start and I didn’t need my PC to run the latest AAA multiplayer games anymore, seemed like a better time than ever to switch.

    I still play some multiplayer with Battlefield 4 and Battlebit Remastered. (R.I.P Battlefield 1 and Ironsight on Linux though…)


  • EndeavourOS because someone said it was Arch for lazy people, and I’m a lazy people.

    I did use vanilla Arch before for a while, but just ended up being more work for the same setup with more issues from stuff like missing dependencies I didn’t have to worry about with Endeavour.

    Only other distro I’ve used was Pop!_OS when I first tried out Linux.




  • Heavily depends on the game and how the patches are installed.

    If the patch comes as an exe, on Lutris next to the Play button you’ll find a wine glass icon with a menu next to it, you can use ‘Run EXE inside Wine prefix’ to run the patch installer and I’ve had it work most of the time. Sometimes you’ll need a .NET dependency which you can install through Winetricks using the same menu.

    A lot of patches for older games require DLL files which you have to manually declare in Wine, One again in that Wine glass menu you’ll fine ‘Wine Configuration’ and in the Libraries tab of that, you declare what DLLs you need to “override”.

    I don’t play either of those games you mentioned but I mainly play and mod older games these days and had pretty good luck running 95% of them through Lutris. You just sometimes have to find workarounds.



  • HouseWolf@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    22 days ago

    As a Librewolf user I wouldn’t make it default for casual users this kind of distro is aiming for. Sure enabling logins to use it as a main browser is piss easy, but that’s still more work than the average person wants to put into setting up their system.

    Waterfox would be the better choice since it’s just default Firefox in every way besides Mozilla’s spyware.






  • HouseWolf@lemm.eetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldthe perfect browser
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    1 month ago

    It’s not really an issue for the end user. But it’s basically made for companies to take advantage of free hobbyist developers without needing to give anything back in return.

    So if you’re the kind of person who runs to foss software to get away from corporate tech bull, having a license that benefits companies more than users just kinda feels scummy.