Do Bazzite. It will be unbeatable for just working and ease of use.

Stay away from Manjaro for anything.

SteamOS that Valve offers is not the same as what’s on the Steam Deck. It’s extremely dated and is what it used to be. A real distro from Valve has yet to be released.

The best way to install WoW is using Lutris, which also comes with Bazzite. You search for and install Battle.net, then you can install WoW normally. Lutris can also add a WoW shortcut once WoW is installed, too.

You can also just copy and paste the WoW folder from your Windows Program Files folder. It keeps all your settings and addons.

For addons use Wowup-curse. It’s a open source addon manager that is just straight up better than all others.

Currently, WoW needs Proton-GE to work. Using wine-staging, or the dated wine-ge, and Battle.net will have problems starting. It’s something weird with authentication and connecting online. Proton-GE contains a patch specifically for this.

The easiest way to get Proton-GE is using Protonup-Qt if using KDE plasma, or Proton Plus if you’re using Gnome. For Protonup-QT, you select Steam, then install Proton-GE for Steam. Lutris will also be able to use it.

Just general advice, I’d use the latest Proton-GE as the default for all Steam games.

In Lutris set the runner for Battle.net to Proton-GE.

Source: I’ve tried all but Drauger OS, and currently play retail WoW.

Its anticheat is proper server sided.

So this is why multi monitor support has been a never ending hot mess?!

They really need to start differentiating; between multiplayer mainstream, and singleplayer mainstream, IMO.

Ranked will not be F2P. If you already own Seige, you won’t have to pay again for ranked.

I sincerely hope LoL never shuts down, because then all those players will have to go to some other game.

Thats crazy you experience this. I have like 1500 hours in SoT, and it’s Rare (pun intended) to even hear other crews use voice chat. I can’t remember the last time someone was toxic. My only gripe is their servers suck sooooooooo much ass, I legit don’t think they have a single employee that knows how fix it.

Do you do open crew?

Yea, Shroud helped a lot during early development.

Essentially, most cheats for games work because the program can access the RAM addresses that the game uses. Anticheat works by scanning the computer for these running programs/services that are known to be cheats.

Historically this has been done in userspace, ie. no elevated permissions. Nowadays, Kernel level AC let’s the AC check for deeper cheating methods, like devices that are operating on a driver level.

Currently, the most difficult to detect method is cheating using a 2nd PC that connects via a cable to a special PCIe device in the gaming PC. It essentially analyzes everything going to RAM and plucks out game related info. It’s currently a back and forth trying to hide that PCIe device from the anti-cheat.

Unraid is the bee’s knees, especially for being beginner friendly. You use the internet browser of another computer on the same network to access the web GUI of the server.

Most game servers, Palworld included, have ready to go templates in their “App Store,” for running the servers as Docker containers.

Same, with their current 14 beta.

Lmao, that got me good! “List of things it does better than Windows: open dxdiag.”

Beat me to it. Outstanding controller, with replaceable parts staight from 8bitDo.

IIRC MPV can be configured to play HDR video as SDR, and you set the .conf things like quality and standard to what you want.

Just look up W10 LTSC. Shouldn’t bug you with upgrades, and has a few more years support.

My hype is so strong I reinstalled Rising Storm 2. They even fixed the performance problems I had last time I played, roughly 3 years ago!

Released on Steam 17 Oct 2024 and currently @ 49% positive reviews.

Gods I need to replay it and go around slapping the English, again.

What a shame, it’s in my top 3 games I’ve ever played, but I pirated it because Epic app sucks ass. Was going to buy it once it was on Steam.

There’s a systemd OOM service that can be setup. I use CachyOS and they have it as a checkbox to turn it on or off.