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Noise rock band from NYC, I got turned onto them a few years back. They're pretty different from a lot of what I'm used to, They've got an industrial edge with some interesting instrument lineups in studio.
Finally bought my favourite album of theirs and although I wasn't planning too, I got an original 1993 UK pressing for £25 and it still sounds great!
First vinyl I own that's older than I am.
It really should be.
Battlefield 4 still works on Linux and we always been more transport pilots...especially on Flood Zone.
Pop!_OS in early 2023, I used it for about 3 weeks before my bootloader broke so bad even Pops own recovery tool couldn't fix it. I went back to Windows 10 for another month before trying again with EndeavourOS and haven't had to use Windows since.
Funnily the thing that triggered me to install Linux on a spare SSD was I couldn't play Battlefield 4 on my Windows install anymore because the EA app randomly stopped working even after reinstalling the whole thing, Got the EA app and BF4 working on Pop within an hour.
I've only had like 3 games from FitGirl not work fine installing with Lutris.
2 of them needed some dependency like .NET installed first, and only one I could get working at all but the DODi version worked fine.
Everyone kept telling me Wine sucks even before I switch to Linux. But I've had it work fine a lot more times than not, even for some old obscure software that barely works on Windows 10 anymore.
I'm still a relative newcomer and switched fully in 2023 after having zero experience with Linux before that year.
I feel like I've only just gotten comfy with regular Linux and don't feel like reworking my setup around the quirks of an atomic distro.
And if you count the Steamdecks "SteamOS" then the only time I've remembered it isn't standard Arch is when it's "atomicness" is forcing me to do workarounds for something that I can easily do on my Arch based desktop.
But I'd give NixOS a try if their docs page didn't block my VPN when literally no other FOSS or Corpo site does...
Honestly might be the other way around for me. I was mainly a multiplayer guy for the longest time but most franchises I was invested in quickly went down the drain and a lot of the newer battle-royal style shooters didn't appeal to me.
Started mainly playing older games that had been on my backlog for a while. And videos of the Steamdeck running them games started popping up.
So since I already hated Windows 10 from the start and I didn't need my PC to run the latest AAA multiplayer games anymore, seemed like a better time than ever to switch.
I still play some multiplayer with Battlefield 4 and Battlebit Remastered. (R.I.P Battlefield 1 and Ironsight on Linux though...)
EndeavourOS because someone said it was Arch for lazy people, and I'm a lazy people.
I did use vanilla Arch before for a while, but just ended up being more work for the same setup with more issues from stuff like missing dependencies I didn't have to worry about with Endeavour.
Only other distro I've used was Pop!_OS when I first tried out Linux.
Just without the ridiculous tie.
The Simpsons.
There's something new to see every time! I've only just got back into watching the early seasons again recently.
Heavily depends on the game and how the patches are installed.
If the patch comes as an exe, on Lutris next to the Play button you'll find a wine glass icon with a menu next to it, you can use 'Run EXE inside Wine prefix' to run the patch installer and I've had it work most of the time. Sometimes you'll need a .NET dependency which you can install through Winetricks using the same menu.
A lot of patches for older games require DLL files which you have to manually declare in Wine, One again in that Wine glass menu you'll fine 'Wine Configuration' and in the Libraries tab of that, you declare what DLLs you need to "override".
I don't play either of those games you mentioned but I mainly play and mod older games these days and had pretty good luck running 95% of them through Lutris. You just sometimes have to find workarounds.
Think most people just use ROM as a catch all for "console video game format" these days.
I got this Harley Benton DC Junior a few years ago and it's been my main axe since.
Only issue is it has the worse tuning stability of any guitar I've owned, Not only going out of tune but getting it to correct pitch can be spotty in the first place.
Any ideas for replacement tuning machines? I've already replaced the nut with a graphtech one a while back and it only slightly helped when tuning up. I also don't mind drilling new screw holes if need be.
Belfast Doom trio I got turned onto a few years back and can't get enough of! Sadly missed my last opportunity to catch them live, hopefully it'll get to soon!
Album is Future Echo Returns
You underestimate the tab hoarders.
I'm also like you where I barely have more than a few tabs open. But I regularly witness people I know fill the tab bar until you can't read the first 3 letters of the title anymore.