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Accidentally clicked on a metal album while looking for music on YT (Dionysus' Anima Mundi if anyone happens to recognize them) and just kinda went with it for the second pic. Turned out to be a pretty good decision, I think.

Be glad you aren't on Arch. Steam on 64-bit Arch is nearly impossible to set up. I also remember having to fight with Windows to get the dual boot going, and that was six hours of my eight-hour install. To be fair, getting Arch configured took days and days of nonstop work, but that's because I'm a perfectionist and I had access to Arch. These things do not end well. 

As far as getting acquainted with Linux, I would advise to just read up on everything you can. If you're on Mint, then the bulk of tutorials and instructional articles are written for Debian-based platforms like Mint, so you'll have a (theoretically) easier time. Reading about everything is one of the best ways to go.

Also, StackExchange is your best friend.

Steam on Linux is a mess in general, but with Arch being a distro without official support it's especially painful, yes. :r

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On windows, I've used Wallpaper Master for several years.  I have it monitoring two folders, one for each monitor.  Very effective.  I'm hoping there's some equivalent.

I'm pretty sure that the KDE Plasma 5 desktop lets you set up separate wallpapers (and a bunch of other things) through its activities, but my experience with Plasma is fairly short and rough, however I do appreciate it for the absolute plethora of customizability options, even though I'm a Gnome guy myself which within Linux is about as un-customizable as it gets, short of using Ubuntu's Unity (which is still a fair lot given the existence of plugins and all that).

If you do not want to change desktop enviroments (which is totally fine) one way to get that to work is to stitch two wallpapers together in your image manipulation program of choice with one wallpaper on the left, one on the other and setting the 'big picture' as a wallpaper in 'span' mode. I have no experience with Cinnamon or that level of wallpaper management though but that appears to be the only solution for Cinnamon specifically, other DEs like KDE or Xfce provide less 'cheaty' methods from what I'm reading.

Got myself a password manager (KeypassX), started to change my passwords to be much more secure (or at the very least longer).
And now waiting for the Blizzard stream, revealing the new expansion and whatnot.

Good times.

Quote from: Darkmere on March 08, 2016, 04:47:45 pm

I remember getting a lot of enjoyment out of Heroes of Might and Magic 5 ... But at least it wasn't Heroes 4, amirite? Eh?

Dudes, HOMM4 was actually pretty good, at least in hindsight.
It was very unpolished, especially on the audiovisual end, but I loved some of its gameplay concepts that were sadly never expanded upon in future titles.
And the music was the absolute bomb. I dare say it was better than HOMM3's.
It's not my favorite game in the series, no, not by a long shot, but it really had potential to be very good. :v

Right now I'm at the stage where I have basic iron, copper and coal mining and processing (though I still have to reload furnaces and boilers manually but that's not a huge issue since I should be able to get electric furnaces fairly soon), but setting up the main bus seems like is going to be a nightmare. :v

It also tends to be pathetically easy if you're even a little bit competent. Get in the largest vehicle in the map, park on top of the enemy's command posts one by one until you win. Unless the map is bullshit unfair like Yavin IV: Temple from the first game, but that's another story.

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In other news, I'm sad for games not having kick-ass menus anymore, almost as much as I'm sad for the death of the printed manual. TIE Fighter's "menus" are presented as you navigating an Imperial space station, using its facilities as if you were actually a pilot. Starcraft's menus and briefings had the same feel, to an extent. Classic Fallout kept the retro aesthetic even for the options menu.

Nowadays games just have the most boring, perfunctory, "I guess we technically need to have one so here you go" menus. Where's the imagination, the excitement, sucking you into the game world?

The Binding of Isaac (and subsequently TBOI:Rebirth) had a relatively immersive menu in my opinion, with the whole "Isaac's drawings" aesthetic.
Not the most over the top thing ever, but better than just some abstract minimalist menu from a shitty mobile game port.

Roblox that doesn't have a horrible community of prepubescent children, runs on Linux (and runs well) and doesn't have a rather horrid monetization model (though to be fair there have been worse ones out there).

I just want Roblox back damnit.
And Blockland.

I miss those games and the associated "Roblox VS Blockland" war dearly.

That list has some really atrocious points about it.
Good thing I'm on Linux so I don't have to care about that pile of BS personally, but I pity those that do.

You could argue that Steam does need competition, like the article says, but given just how inherently anti-consumer Microsoft as a whole is (or so they have become in my eyes, at least since I've hopped on the Linux freedom 'wagon.), I don't foresee this as being anything but a complete and total disaster which will hopefully meet the same fate that GFWL did (which I thankfully did not have to put up with myself as far as I remember).