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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

Thanks for de-influencing me out of switching to KDE plasma, mint and ubuntu are the only distros I've tried and I've been thinking about trying something new

New users (like me) that aren't necessarily passionate about linux and just looking for a windows alternative can be easily persuaded early on

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Looks like there's still something you can try, brother.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

After bashing my face against the wall getting lutris to run StarCraft 2, I'm avoiding looking at my OS too hard

I feel like I should try arch just once so I understand the memes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I too bashed my head with lutris on some games to the point that i gave up on Linux. Then i tried it again but this time using Bottles and it's working really fine for me, almost flawless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you try lutris out of flatpak? I don't know why but this version has less issues. I compared lutris vs bottles and for me the performance of bottles was way worse. (Sadly). Because the bottles ui is much better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't try that version, I just transitioned to Bottles. I didn't notice any performance loss though I might compare it just to see what it's like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I still wonder what the difference made. I would image, it should be the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I think it's time to stop being lazy and actually learn how wine works, I can't get Warcraft 3 to work

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