This can’t be a real product.

We’re still here.

My weapon of choice

I like to think they were planning for the mass confusion it would cause on Lemmy. “They’ll never figure this out, muhahahaha!”

But I’m on to them. Oh yes.

Good on ya for lookin out!

Good diet plan! Average person burns around 80 calories per mile walking at a moderate pace. You burned 800 calories to eat a 660 calorie Whopper.

You’re aware that it’s legal to own more than one roll of duct tape, right? Or to tear a really long strip off the roll and wrap it around something after you put the roll inside? 😁

Well I’m not the one taking it to the recycling bin when it’s empty.

What’s the easiest way for a motivated amateur to get that set up?

There really isn’t an easy way. You’d have to run the Windows VM within Linux then assign the PCI device (your GPU) to the VM. Look up gpu passthrough if you really want to dive into it. I find it much easier to just throw a second drive in the machine for a Windows install and dual boot. If you want to dual boot with Windows, make sure Linux is installed first and on a different physical drive, unless you want to be sad later, and by sad I mean learn how to unfuck your Linux install after Windows overwrites the bootloader due to some random update.

Welcome to the club! I did the same thing earlier this year, although I ended up moving from Mint to openSUSE Tumbleweed after a couple weeks due to needing support for some bleeding edge hardware.

Thanks to Steam / Proton it’s been relatively painless!

Found the guy that never worked in end user support.

That’s the whining I was talking about. They’ll hit you and then bitch at you for existing.

the choice between whether you’d rather a bike or a car runs into you is pretty obvious.

No doubt. I pick car every time. Listening to the douchebag cyclist whining after the accident would be too much for me to bear.

The problem is they don’t give a flying fuck what we think of them because they don’t have to and never will.

Indeed. I haven’t run into a modern game that it can’t handle. The only thing it has struggled with that I play is old Command & Conquer titles, but that’s a Proton issue.

I can’t imagine a different distro would be any different.

BZZZZZZZZZZZT I’m sorry but that answer was not correct. Next player!

Seriously try some of the other distros and you’ll have a much more pleasant experience. I already recommended Tumbleweed in another reply but man, anything but Arch is gonna be an improvement for somebody trying to make the switch from Windows gaming for the first time.

I switched my gaming PC to Linux a few months back. I distro hopped for a while due to various issues, and landed on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Everything just works (except for the occasional bug in the updates where I have to wait for the next snapshot for a fix, but that’s NBD).

Caveat: I’m all AMD so no Nvidia stuff to worry about. YMMV.

Have you ever used iTunes? Apples music UI has always been dogshit. I find using any of their music stuff to be a chore. If Google wasn’t so evil I’d drop iOS in a heartbeat.

Dethrones? No. Not in the sense it will overtake Windows in numbers.

Grows its gamer ‘market share’? Absolutely.

I’ve been rear ended twice while sitting at a red light and yielding at a yield sign, so I guess as close as possible?