I think you have gotten a lot of good answers so my 2 cents are. Install something simple like Ubuntu and try it out. Getting the answers to your questions will not give you the “feel” of using a linux system. Once you start you will begin to have more answers and a lot more questions, specifically in the areas you are interested in.

Also check the Arch wiki, it is really good for any distro because it gives a good reference for configurations.

I mean they don’t understand SW, Licenses and Git. It’s all out there now…

For anyone interested, I found the user and it is like you said, the Multiplayer missing DLC fix needed an additional file after an update.

Thanks, I could not find the details of the fixes. Are you in their discord?

What’s the Elden Ring fix?

I’m curious now, what’s a NZ English word that’s unique to NZ?

And yes, there is no system wide spell check, but I think windows/macos also don’t have this.

The only system I know with system wide spell check are smartphones.

Linux Mint with Mate +1

Linux in general has good language support.

Wrapper and AUR helper.

Is that you?, Crowdstrike?

Bro, install a custom kernel from the AUR and switch all your software to the git versions, just add -git at the end of each package. Do not use pacman, what are you? afraid of life?, use yay like everyone else.

^I ^use ^arch, ^btw.

Gaming: I just Steam for most games, I use Proton GE for better performance in some games

General SW: For things that are light and work with Wine, I will use just that. For SW that needs the Windows “runtime” like the Xbox Accessories SW for my Elite controller, I use a VirtualBox.

Most of my needs are covered by regular Linux apps, such as a Browser, Development environment and Media.

I’ve got a track for that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUdyuKaGQd4

XFCE or LxQT but i have a preference for XFCE if it is for normal use.

Elementary has some very clean sober themes. I fell in the tilling windows craze and ricing so I’m sporting an Arch (I use it btw) with AwesomeWM, so very minimalistic.

Oops

If you have 300 you might have other problems

From the application itself, you can disable the Deals and Promotions.

I was wondering why I have not seen any ads even though I have this active for the app. So there you go.

It’s not in the mainline, you need to either install the cachyos repo or compile the kernel with patches.

You do need a kernel with the sched-ext kernel option. Trying to install it right now.

For those interested, the AUR package is

scx-scheds

It appears you can change the scheduler on the fly so I will definitely try it. There are more schedulers available as well.

There’s a comment in the article that says you can improve performance drastically, hard to believe but we will see.