A VPN is a must have for browsing the internet in the UK these days, our laws and only getting more Orwellian by the day.

By all means do what you must to avoid handing over data to our police-state government.

I don’t use Battle.net but I had a similar issue when using EA Desktop through Lutris. The program would demand a restart to apply updates then would just shutdown and say the same thing next time you ran it, if it even still ran.

My permanent fix was to use Bottles for EA Games and it’s worked fine ever since then. Lutris works fine for everything else though.

EndeavourOS is what got me to daily drive Linux finally.

The installation is easy, it’s got sane defaults and pre-installs most common dependencies.

Here’s what I use to get them back and I’ve been pretty happy with it.

As crazy as it sounds, some people only trust software backed by a large corporations.

Valve for the most part has extremely good will amongst the typical gaming crowd. While Linux as a whole doesn’t.

I’ve tried to sell people on Bazzite before when they’ve brought up wanting SteamOS for the desktop, But I always get ‘But it’s not “REAL” SteamOS, just some random Linux devs clone’.

I agree it’s the wrong way to go about thinking of it, Probably backed up very few people outside the Linux space understanding what a distro actually is. But it’s still the general consensus among your average gamer sadly…

Still I’m hopeful an offical SteamOS release will be good for getting more people to try and explore the Linux space.

I dunno about you update issues, But one thing I have to point out is the Linux native version of BL2 is an outdated build so if you want to play co-op with Windows players you have to run it through proton.

Not all the time, some mod creators lock their stuff behind a paywall. But also a few modders a while back started taking down their own mods official downloads so it was up to others to keep archives.

That’s what a lot of people were using the ModPiracy subreddit for but it kept being taken down and migrating to new subs.

Awesome! thanks, I’m sorta living under a rock these days when it goes to video game news.

As someone who doesn’t follow the Halo series, what is this? an older canned game or some new unreleased thing?

I didn’t clock much on my Steamdeck time as it doesn’t seem to count non-steam games…

Honestly my Steamdeck has kinda become a bigger beefier PSP for me, mostly PS2 games or PC racing games of that era.

The average person thinks digital = magic! and marketers/governments, etc are well aware of that, and will abuse that fact anytime they can.

Ever had to explain to someone that “the cloud” isn’t a physical cloud in the sky keeping their passwords & nudes safe? I have way too many times.

I agree but it’s sadly the new standard for mainstream gamers to be drip fed “content” like crack so if they feel a games lacking behind they go somewhere else to get their easy fix.

I’ve played games for 100s more hours after their last DLC release just because I loved the gameplay. So it makes my eye twitch when my people I know load into a new game and immediately comb over the battlepass n skins to see if it’s “worth their time”

Game hasn’t received an update in what will be a year later this month.

The main dev keeps promising a huge update is in the works but won’t so much as drop a hotfix for obvious flaws in the game currently. They made more than enough money to bring on extra staff but just didn’t.

BUT you can still easily find games most days on the main modes (assuming you live in the US/EU) And the games been left in a pretty decent state.

I’ve clocked in 319hours and still think Battlebit has been the best FPS game we’ve seen in nearly a decade. Which is why it’s so frustrating the way the devs are handling it currently…

I play Plutonium BO2 and MW3 semi regularly. Would play more BO1 but it kinda runs like shit through Wine/Proton sadly…

I installed it through Lutris and also had issues with updates until I switched the wine version to GE-Proton 9-20 and that seemed to fix that.

And yeah getting used to the Linux file directory is kinda a pain at first but something you gotta get used to. In Wine games you’ll find your root directory listed as Z: you should be able to find your Steam directory in.

/home/YOURUSERNAME/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/

Or if you have other drives mounted you should know where you mounted them, It’s normally in /run/media/

Another tip would be to cap your FPS to something like 125 because them old Cod games start acting weird at higher frame rates, and you want to keep the FPS as consistent as you can since the mouse sensitive is also tied to the frame rate for some stupid reason!

14yo me spent all day waiting for extended cut of the original Dawn of the Dead to download only to find out at 2am it was an Italian dub.

Who’da thunk it.

I switched a while back before all the Ai and “privacy preserving” telemetry stuff.

Every update note I see for Firefox now just reinforces my decision.

Not only that but the physical phones themselves are dumping features while charging the same or often increased prices…

My current phones literally being held together with tape but wanting a current phone with an SD card and headphone jack has seriously limited my options.

I’m sure they probably could but they don’t really have the incentive to add support for them.

I’m an older GenZ born in the late 90s and I’ve had to show a few younger peers how to torrent recently.

The idea of you needing a “special” program just for downloading a file seems to throw some of them off.

I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but “generally tech savy” people seem to be declining. It’s either you’re really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.

One other thing I’ve noticed, People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices. Which its good people give at least a bit of a shit about security but convincing people Firefox isn’t a virus gets a bit annoying (Yes I’ve had that conversation).