It’ll be out before Silksong, anyhow.

I was there, too, my dude!

FYI, there’s an No-VR mod for Alyx in case you want to play it, and lack of a headset is what’s stopping you.

I gave up on KVMs.

Each of my screens has more than one input, my mouse & keeb can each pair with 3 PCs and there’s a button on to toggle between.

Sure, it’s a few more button presses, but it doesn’t cost me a dime for functionality that’s baked in already.

TNG 4x17 - Night Terrors

Still a fave.

Hollow Knight is my favorite game of all time. It’s tough though, and you will feel lost and “where the fuck am I supposed to go?”.

I recommend that new players install the mod manager and enable “free” Gathering Swarm and Wayword Compass charms mods. Frees up 2 charm slots for two QoL charms – those two free slots will make the midgame a tad easier.

I’ve only ever really liked the original 2 isometric ones, and Vegas. The Bethesda ones are boring.

I’m using Tuxedo OS. Based off Ubuntu, but without snaps, and using a up-to-date KDE desktop environment. I don’t like Cinnamon.

Early-mid 90s.

The latter years of the NES, the entirety of the 16-bit console era (SNES/Megadrive [“Genesis”]), the golden age of PC adventure games & the dawn of multimedia (CD-ROM based games & talkies).

Just before the release of Doom, where FPS took over; and the PSX/N64, where (bad) 3D was teh hotness; is where it’s at for me – likely why I love my MiSTer FPGA so much.

Side from being really out of date, yeah, it’s a good distro. Once they finally finish Cosmic Desktop, I may give it another look.

Pretty much all this. I do use my OS drive to dual boot both windows and Nobara. Grub does the heavy lifting. Windows plays along fine.

Highly highly recommend Nobara over Mint if you’re primarily going to be gaming. It’s a fork of Fedora by Glorious Eggshell Eggroll (the guy behind Proton-GE), who himself works for Redhat.

It. just. works.

v40 should be out within a week or two of Fedora 40 dropping on the 23rd.

Edit: Wrong Egg-thing

also amd cards work with linux much better

It’s gotten a lot better with the Open source Nvidia drivers and the latest Kernel. Fedora 40 in March is ditching X11, and it’s expected that Nvidia cards ought to work fine.

I’m an AMD guy myself, but Nvidia isn’t the headache on the penguin like it used to be.

Regardless, your best use of your $100 is to change the CPU to the son-to-be-released 5700X3D. That 3D cache is amazing.

The Ryzen7 5700X3D will be $249MSRP at the end of the month. That’s your $100, right there, and it’ll be one hell of an upgrade.

S2 will be on Netflix

Premise was great, buildup was okay, outcome and resolution were awful.

Project Diablo 2 is a pretty vanilla version of Diablo 2 LoD. Yes, it rebalances.skills and items, and adds corruptions and endgame maps, but there’s no new skills. For a complete overhaul, you want MedianXL.

That said, I’d still forego both and go with D2R. Modding is coming along, finally. After a regular playthrough or eighteen (6 classes × 3 difficulties), give Diablo 2 ReModded a try.

Sir Patrick Stewart as the Encarta (or was it Britannica?) encyclopedia “help” narration was hilarious in how unnecessary it was.

Loved him as the evil Protoss in SC2.

Play retro adventure games, or modern Telltale ones.