I finally made the jump to Linux Mint yesterday on my gaming tower. ProtonDB and Steam deck support finally pulled me over the edge while Office 365 and Windows apparent path forward was pushing me to leave.

Sea of Stars, Gloomhaven, and Peak installed, ran, and played with zero extra configuration. So I threw something more intense at it. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 runs like a champ, zero configuration. Doom the Dark Ages as well.

Now to throw some curveballs. I’m playing through Subnautica with my buddy because I’m a coward who can’t do it alone. The new version of Nitrox, the multiplayer mod, installed and ran just as simply as on windows. THIS was the final straw that let me upgrade as Nitrox only updated to support Linux a week or 2 ago.

Elden Ring’s Seamless Coop (yeah, I play single player games with friends to make it easier, bite me) is technically the only thing I even had the slightest problem with. But after adding the launcher to steam, I just had to tell it to use the latest proton and the problem was gone as fast as it showed up.

I’m hesitant to say “I should have jumped to Linux a long time ago” because I know it hasn’t been an easy road getting here… But damn, we’re in a good place now!

Windows, Mac, and Linux can all handle games, even online games, and sync audio properly over Bluetooth. Consoles not doing this properly is just laziness.

No, I mean crossfade. The game source does not duck when the chat source is transmitting.

Modern operating systems can offset video and audio to compensate for the delay. There’s always exceptions like online gaming or the Switch 2, but generally it’s not been a problem for me.

I wish more headsets had 2 channel support. One for games and one for chat. The Nari Ultimate has a slider to crossfade between the 2. It was my favorite headset until the mic predictably shorted out because of how much moving and bending is required to store it away.

Growing up in Oklahoma I heard the term “bleeding heart liberal” as an insult. Caring for other people is a detriment to the conservative life style apparently.

“as viewed by the original dev who knows it inside and out”

This is one of my biggest complaints and all I hear when I read this article is excuses. They want the devs of the apps to implement a protocol that they just aren’t implementing. Or the app is old, or it’s running in wine, or… Or… Or… Or maybe this approach just isn’t working and they’ve made it everyone else’s fault.

Maybe I’m just too young to have heard the proper story.

It wasn’t obvious to me.

Is he using the @ of the handle as part of the grammar of the sentence? Have I misunderstood @ all this time?!?

If I wanted Windows perms I would have installed Windows