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Heroic with GOG works great on Linux. Why wait?

All the people wondering why they don’t support Linux

The Heroic launcher works great on Linux, and manages GOG, Epic, and Amazon games.

Option 1: When you go to their website for the flathub link, it takes you to a download for a .flatpakref file. Dowload that and run it. It will open the Software Manager to the gopher64 entry. If it isn’t opening with the software manager for some reason, tell it to open .flatpakref files with the Software Manager.

Option 2: Search for gopher64 in the Software Manager.

Germany just requires that all games have an age rating

Germany straight up bans many video games. Here is a partial list. This game has much more obvious blood than many already banned in Germany. This is the chilling effect in action, it keeps many works, even those not explicitly banned, out of the market.

I would guess the blood. Germany has some really weird censorship laws.

I can confirm M.2 to PCIe adapters work for booting Windows. Had both my Linux drive and Windows drive each in a separate one when I used to dual boot. Then I would swap out which adapter was in the computer to switch OS.

I haven’t plugged the Windows one in in a loooong time, but wanted to mention the option since it would do what you want.

Yet another reason the ‘just turn it off’ crowd is not making a good argument.

With Microsoft, there is always another thing to turn off. It’s never-ending wack-a-mole.

Is that a good idea?

I did it on one of my computers as I wanted a feature that was in 6.14. It didn’t cause any issues, nor should it. I believe the disto maintainer is simply being cautious and not having people auto-upgrade kernels as part of minor version upgrades.

I believe 6.14 is somewhat recent, so it might be just a matter of when each installation file was obtained.

Yeah. If you upgraded to Mint 22.2 from 22.1, you will still be on kernel 6.8. But I believe if you installed via a full install directly to 22.2, you will be on kernel 6.14.

I recommend upgrading your 6.8 installation with a fresh download from your preferred source and a full reinstall.

You can upgrade the Mint kernel to 6.14 via Software Update Manager > View > Linux Kernels. No full reinstall required.

Though, OP, unless there is a specific reason to change it or you just like doing so, I would leave it alone: don’t fix things that aren’t broken.

If it’s on the distros, don’t fret it too much. They all do everything, it’s just an initial configuration.

I have been recommending Mint specifically, as it targets the average user with a ‘it just works’ mentality.

Any specific things you are getting stuck on?

Yeah, active PoE is the only kind worth buying. Passive PoE is an accident waiting to happen.

Mass Effect 2 was the last great game Bioware made. So, yeah.

EA is well known for turning studios to shit. They have quite the impressive graveyard at this point.

Not all of us know what this is. Can you expand on your thoughts?

Ebay, Cragslist. Doesn’t fully fit in with the sub, but, it’s what I do when I get too many.

Nice.

Very much so looking forward to seeing rigorous benchmarks of GPUs on linux.

It’s also unreasonable to have to wait FIFTEEN MINUTES after every setting change to verify it did what you need.

Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it’s specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them (as well as a POE switch), because I really like POE.

Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.

The dedicated NAS appliances really annoy me. Every time I have had to use one I just think ‘I can just do this in Linux on any random desktop lying around, why am I learning another proprietary thing?’

Of course you could just bypass all that nonsense by pirating your media

And this is precisely why piracy is on the rise. People will pay for convince/features, as we see with steam and music streaming.

The video industry has yet to figure this out.

All hail Windows 11 for making the future brighter on that front too; with Microsoft pushing forced obsolescence!

Yeah, tons of businesses are and will be offloading intel 7th gen and older computers.