This is the third time today that I have seen a reference to the sword of Damocles. Almost as if the entire fucking world feels like it’s only a thread away from destruction…

I've been seeing it a lot more recently, too. IRL even. Did it get used by sometime famous recently or something?

The idea here with the VM is two-fold: First, to keep a potential Windows Big Brother update from spying on my documents and whatnot, while also preventing it from tampering with the security of my PC. Secondly, to maximize compatibility, since I lost trust in Linux to not have technical issues with my gaming. That means mods, Japanese games, emulators, and so forth. Windows is simply more reliable and documented, unlike Linux. If something goes wrong with a game playing on Windows, there is decent odds of me troubleshooting. My hardware should be able to handle a VM, it being a 5950x with a RTX 4090+3060, and 128gb of RAM. Anyhow, I don't really remember the specifics regarding how my efforts with Lutris, Heroic Game Launcher, and so forth went: I don't like remembering unpleasant things. All that I recall is assorted errors or lack of features that rattled my willingness to trust Linux for gaming. I will try again some years for now, if I hear Linux has become more suitable to the task.

Wow, I didn't know that was an option, I thought we did 4k, then skipped to 6k and 8k. What's the actual resolution on that thing?

This is the third time today that I have seen a reference to the sword of Damocles. Almost as if the entire fucking world feels like it’s only a thread away from destruction…

I'm curious which specific games you still need Windows for? I'm only aware of a handful (Riot games and some Chinese ones).

There was a king once named Damocles that had a sword suspended over his throne that could come crashing down at any random moment and kill him, to remind himself of the fragility of his power, and human life. I have no idea how that anecdote might apply to people in power in this day and age, or why people would reference the anecdote. *Glares at the fraying rope*

So is pretty much any Linux distro. Don't pick a distro because it says "gaming," they're all extremely similar. Pick a distro because it looks nice and you can get help when you need it.

That's what I initially thought too, but as soon as you install it, it gives you the option to install Steam, lutris, Wine, and some other gamer stuff. It basically feels similar to Windows people know and has been stable for me. Sure, you can use vanilla Fedora and put all of the stuff yourself but the point of this is it's ready to go out of the box.

But it's really not hard to install on any distro. I could pick up any distro and be downloading games on Steam and Heroic in <15 min, just like on Windows, and that's without knowing anything about the distro. I don't even use Lutris anymore, Heroic + Steam is more than enough. That's my point. A "gaming" distro doesn't have any pivotal secret sauce that make games work there that don't elsewhere. It might be tuned a little, but unless you're watching framerates closely, you probably won't notice. And you can always rice whatever you pick of you really want those 1-2FPS gainz. I'm not saying they're "bad," just saying Linux is Linux, so use what makes you happy.

Definitely, but bazziteos is catered to more new people or people who don't want to spend a lot of time getting stuff to work. I use arch on two computers and have bazzite on another computer I know I want to be more stable than arch and not spend time fixing it

Have you succeeded in making things less crappy? I've been debating the upgrade for a while and I'm basically hoping this is possible by the time I do it. I already use shutup10 on win10, but I wasn't if win11 kneecaps it somehow or not.

Start menu is permanently lacking features. But besides that it's not a major change. There is third party softwares that puts back 10 style or other start menus, but heard there are issues with windows updates. Besides that just get shutup10 again and tick stuff off. Pretty much solves it imo.

There are a _lot_ of options between Arch and Bazzite. Arch is bleeding edge with _very_ few guardrails, whereas Bazzite has a read-only filesystem and tries its hardest to stop you from breaking stuff (e.g. like a console). I _never_ recommend Arch to new users because there are just way too many ways to break it. it's a great distro (I used it for 5+ years), but it's not a good option for new users. I usually recommend Mint, Debian, or Fedora, because they're pretty stable, popular, and you're unlikely to break stuff by normal tinkering. I personally use openSUSE Tumbleweed, which is safer than Arch (openQA testing of packages + snapper by default) but still bleeding edge, which works for me, but I also don't recommend that either just because of how much churn there is in the packages. If you _only_ want to play games and want something like a Steam Deck experience, Bazzite may be the best option. My point isn't that Bazzite is _bad_, but that it's not the only or necessarily _best_ option.

What's missing from start? I don't actually use the start menu much so not sure I would miss anything anyway.

I thought I already replied to this, but apparently not. Sorry for the late response. The start menu no longer has the windows 10 tiles. It's just search and icons of apps you've pinned. Similar to phone app menu. You can put some into folders/groups together. And that's it. There's no further customization possible. You can get third party solution to bring back more features such as Start11 from Stardock, but that means paying for an additional software and I've heard it gets buggy with windows updates.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11 Download multi version ISO Windows settings has all the privacy stuff but they ask you to approve (or not) a bunch of it on installation The UK trick makes you "a European" and there's a bunch of laws that restricts the bullshit...