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20 years ago things weren’t so shit (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Honestly, here's the thing. My PC is still running Win10. It just works. My life is stressful and chaotic and my escape is gaming. I love modded Skyrim and I love gaming and when I get a chance to sit down at my computer I just want to fucking escape. I don't want to troubleshoot, I don't want to fiddle, I just want to load my game and have fun.

That is what has been keeping me from switching to Linux these past few years. I have Win10 tweaked in the registry so it can't run copilot or AI, the start menu can't connect to the Internet so it can't show me ads, it's still Microsoft and I don't love it but I don't have to think about it.

If someone came along and said hey, for $100 I'll install Linux on your computer, make sure all your drivers are installed, make sure all your hardware works, and get your games and files moved over, tested and working, and be around to troubleshoot in the future and teach you basic troubleshooting if you need me (for an additional reasonable fee), I'd pay it. I'm not made of money, but I don't want to spend my time or limited brain power doing that stuff and I'd be more than happy to offload it to someone else.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    modded Skyrim

    Probably a good thing you haven't switched then. In my experience setting up mod manager and any external tools (like Nemesis) was not easy, but it's doable. Mods themselves may not work though, especially if they are more external to Skyrim. So, for example, you can forget about ENB shaders. I mean, when I tried them they worked, but basically no other mods and in an empty area with 7fps is not exactly playable (on Windows it was unstable ~30fps with mods).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Vortex is a flaming turd on linux. I recently deployed a 2300 mods collection for CP2077 with it. It took around 35 hours - with a premium nexusmods account, and thr download itself was only around 1 hour. In comparison, the multiplatform NexusMods App they mothballed completed the same task in about 3 hours, but since it never was really finished, it failed at the end of deployment. There is a community fork of the Nexusmods App available, but it sadly failed the same way - it can't cope with really large collections, and i am not good enough of a programmer to really help out - i can read code as long as it does stay simple, but writing it is a completely different thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Apparently there is such a thing as a "Nexus Collection Downloader" for Mod Organizer 2, although I've never tried it. MO2 generally works fine though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Will give it a whirl. My experience with Vortex after seeing the NexusmodsApp, that was coming along nicely, being shelved to go back to their tech-debt ridden piece of shit client (even back when i used it on windows it was a buggy mess, and the experience on linux is far worse with awful r/w performance and loads of different UI glitches. Once the whole window just collapsed into a 1x5 cm square with one black and 3 white borders while i was doing something else on the pc not even involving the app - unrecoverable. I became so infuriated that i even posted on the nexusmods forums (https://forums.nexusmods.com/topic/13543600-useable-linux-support/ - i was somewhat surprised that the mods approved the post at all, but since noone engages with the post, i will probably not get any response regarding their plans)

    Edit: If anyone stumbles over this thread and also has issues with Vortex under linux: steamtinkerlaunch has integrated support for automated setup of MO2, Vortex and HedgeModManager, syntax is 'steamtinkerlaunch <mo2/vortex/hmm> install'. This also downloads a costum proton version for running these tools.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I had heard it was an issue in Linux. I'm running Lost Legacy and Yggdrasil (Skyrim VR) which are both 100+ gb mod packs (and highly recommend them both, Lost Legacy is breathtakingly beautiful). Lost Legacy is also very stable and runs very smoothly, especially compared to some of the other pre built mod packs I've tried.

    If I did get brave and make the switch, is this something that theoretically could be run in a Windows VM or would it be better to dual boot and keep Windows hanging around for Skyrim?

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  • [+] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I understand that you do not want to fiddle with a computer, I was once like that and that is what kept me from switching to any OS on my computer. I want to let you know as an experienced Linux user though that once you setup linux, you do not need to do any more fiddling. For the files and personal stuff, just back it up to an external hard drive. That is pretty much it. I could help you for free, but I do not really have somewhere to message anyone.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    This is completely false ime. Updates can break your setup, though on stable distros they usually don't. Also anytime I installed a game I'd have to invest time to set it up. For older games this could take an hour or more to get everything working. For newer games some features might not even work.

    I ditched Linux for a reason. It was useable but I need my gaming machine to be stress free, not another work project.

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