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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)
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[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zidane@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks 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

[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

My condolences

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Zidane@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks 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