This community has been mind-blowingly helpful every single step of the way so far. At this point I cannot see myself going back to windows. Other than the few things I use that won’t work obviously.

Does this work for games that I have in the EA App and Ubisoft-thingy too?

Oh, I misunderstood completely what Wine Manager actually is it seems like. Though that was just a configure tool for Wine.

I’ll have a look. I like Heroic’s interface WAY more than Lutris

Edit: Would you look at that, if I only actually looked in that menu I would have tried it already. Giving it a go now

They’re not relevant to me specifically, that would mean Qwant would need to collect data. But they’re relevant to the thing I’m searching, sort of.

Google ads were scary specific before I degoogled myself almost completely.

Yeah, I find it more varied and there’s less ads. Ads are still there though, but they’ve been relevant to what I’m searching for so far.

Qwant has been decent for me. Try it out and see how it goes

Played a few missions after installing Linux. Works fine with Proton Hotfix enabled in Steam. Honestly feels like it has less stutters too.

I’ll look into this too. I’ve had this issue with TibSun for years but the unofficial patch from cncnet usually fixed it.

A lot of the stuff I come across in Linux makes more sense than in Windows honestly. It’s just completely different and that makes it hard when you’re used to messing with .exe files, .dll files and regedits.

This worked for TibSun. Thanks!

Got the cncnet patch installed. Now to check if the patch actually fix the black menu issue.

Edit: Didn’t fix the issue for that game. But I now know how to uninstall patches using .exe files!

I used to prefer cncnet back in the day. I noticed they have Linux builds for a lot of Westwood games so if I fail to make the EA App version work I’ll just get that or openRA.

Absolutely incredible info. Saving this for later!

It’s passable so I don’t really mind it. It uses Bing’s image search if I remember right.

As someone who used to love pre-reels instagram a lot. I hope this happens.

Or that Pixelfed takes off

Been using Qwant for about a month. Feels like of like old Google did, very happy.

Only place it’s lacking is image search, but Google has been pretty shite for the past year too.

I’m not changing anytime soon. I ended up choosing Nobara after this thread ☺️

Ended up going with Nobara KDE. So far just about everything I’ve tried to do just worked flawlessly.

That’s the reason I was considering Fedora instead. But I just installed Nobara, so I’ll see how it goes.

I’m VERY curious about Arch, but I’ll stay on this distro for a little bit(I think)

I absolutely despise installing Windows. Takes forever.

Linux distros take like 10 minutes. I love it!

You guys might have talked me into Nobora actually.

I’ve not been someone who’s favored stability over new tech and performance on Windows, so why should I on Linux?

Also, like others have said, changing the Distro if I hate it isn’t exactly the end of the world anyways.

That’s an excellent point.

I run a brand new GPU, I like to play both very old and brand new games. I sometimes overclock my hardware, I’ve been really into modding games in the past.

Stable isn’t really how my gaming ecosystem is on Windows either. Not to mention Windows, Nvidia, AMD etc have always had a element of instability to it. I’ve ran beta updates on my PC for years and also do that on my phone. The amount of times I’v messed around in regedit, cmd, bios, eventviewer etc. is beyond what I can remember. I’ve been adopting windows versions early since Vista came out too.

I’ve never really been happy with stable. Maybe I this question should be «Arch vs Fedora» instead, but I’m not cocky enough(yet) I guess 😂