AW2 is DRM-free. I imagine it can be run completely independent of Epic. You’d need the store to purchase and download it but you could probably even uninstall the Epic app afterwards. I haven’t tested this though, so please don’t just take my word for it.

Such good memories! This is an amazing game!

Agree. RDR2 may not be the best test of high end hardware though, since it was already beautiful on the PS4. It’s just incredibly well optimised.

My field is software engineering. I agree.

I am aware of that. Unfortunately that’s not how I see it mostly used in the field.

I’ve recently had success with minimal (read: some) pain using BG3ModManager.

Unfortunately trying to play multiplayer gave me the dreaded GustavDev version mismatch, but that’s not specific to Linux.

Now say “Liz Truss lettuce” 10 times in quick succession!

Circa 1993, at the age of 13. Took me weeks to download Slackware from BBSs and get it installed. Played around with Mandrake (got an installer CD on an event). Eventually settled on Debian (which took me another few weeks to download, then burn the CDs and install it).

Used Debian on all my computers for many many years. Eventually got a MacBook (around 2005 IIRC) and have been on Mac laptops since. My gaming desktop runs Debian (wrote a blog post about my setup recently: https://blog.c10l.cc/09122023-debian-gaming). My servers, VMs and containers are usually Debian or something directly based on it (Devuan on some containers, Proxmox on my homelab’s bare metal).

I’ve used many other distros along the way, either for work or to experiment. I have huge respect for Fedora on a technical level but still prefer Debian’s philosophy and the apt ecosystem.

It took me a few weeks to get into it. I put it down a few times along the way and went back to CP2077.

A lot of the mechanics, items, spells, etc. still elude me.

That said, I’m now on the third act of my main campaign and every day I look forward to when I get some time to play it a bit more.

The story is fantastic, the voice acting is excellent, the graphics are beautiful and despite some clunkiness and the inherent complexity of a D&D game it’s thoroughly enjoyable by someone like me who’s never been much of a fan of the genre.

He’s 83. Definitely old but I wouldn’t write him off anytime soon.

Strange New Worlds has been quite good tbh.

Picard has its moments as well. It’s more valuable as a TNG revival than as a whole new ST work but it’s not bad, especially the last season.

Discovery is one of the worst sci-fi ever produced though, so definitely stay away from it.

Sounds like bullshit. This is based off job adverts on LinkedIn. Given Guerilla have been releasing for PS all along, it’s likely they already have the people to write that. They’re lacking for the other platforms so they’re hitting for those.

Same. Git GUIs can be great for examining commit trees, visualising patches, etc. For any write operations (this includes things like fecth and pull which write to .git), it’s all in the shell.

You can pay for early access and I think some bonus content but otherwise it’s free.

I second Debian. Stable is excellent.

Testing has newer packages and is generally almost as stable.

I published my Debian gaming setup a few days ago. Haven’t tried VR on it either as I don’t have a headset, but I assume it works.

https://lemmy.world/post/9543661

It’s definitely free to listen, if that’s what you mean. I listen to it on Apple Podcasts without paying a penny.

Yes, generally introverts like aloneness. That doesn’t mean they’re immune to loneliness.

Aside from the arguments posited by this comment’s siblings, I’ll add: artificial scarcity is scarcity nonetheless.

We’re very far from post-scarcity despite the fact that there’s seemingly no material conditions stopping us from achieving it.

No worries! I also posted the blog on this community (https://lemmy.world/post/9543661) and someone mentioned in the comments they’re running Debian stable for gaming.

That can also be an option if you’d like to avoid testing for the minute, though I’m not sure what pitfalls that setup might have.

Good luck on your journey!

Imagine loading a modern game from spinning rust. And then loading textures. And the next area to render. And its textures. And… I’m getting tired of waiting just from imagining it.