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In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 26 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I finally committed to the switch last weekend. My desktop PC was the last holdout still on Windows in my fleet, because of Adobe Lightroom. I decided to just force myself to learn Darktable, and nuked the Win 11 install and replaced it with Fedora 43.

Fun side note, some of my games run way better than they did on Windows, despite not having native Linux builds. lol.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    My bottles borked my battle.net install somehow so instead of tackling the issue I'll put it off for months/years and continue dual booting

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    you can just run battlenet through steam:

    • add the installer as non-steam game
    • set compatibility to proton experimental
    • launch/install
    • find the filepath for the battlenet .exe
    • change the filepath for the target of the battlenet installer to the .exe instead
    • never touch it again; it just works!

    a tiny bit of effort, but only required once. everything afterwards just works!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    This worked immediately for me. I did have to change the install path because it still thought I had a Z drive for some reason... I do want it to work not on steam but if I can play WoW on Linux in the interim I'm happy lol

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I tried Lutris before and it would constantly stop installing and freeze up... and when I let it set up in the default directory it will install and then when I launch bnet it doesn't show any games at all..... anddd when it inevitably decides to force quit out of bnet and I click stop on lutris I get "sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found" ......... also constantly slowing the fuck out of my mouse/computer..... I think I fucked my install up when I initially set up mint... might just wipe and start over again.........

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