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I’ve been using it for a few years on my gaming desktop and I couldn’t be happier about it, it’s the distro that stopped my distro-hopping.

most mods dont work on linux

Mods work just fine, it’s mod managers that sometimes don’t work.

If mods don’t have manual setup instructions, I install them on Windows, copy back to Linux the mod config file and happily play on Linux.

Of all the titles you could choose …

The article is interesting in that it talks about pushing towards open versions of kernel modules, instead of legacy ones, and of much broader scope that the literal 2 lines you chose as title.

Why not keeping the original?

It’s not ready yet (preview state) but NexusMods is developing an app for managing all their mods: https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App, for Linux they’re releasing both an appimage and a standard setup.

On one side, I’m one of those glad for people coming to Linux because Linux is truly fantastic and it can make your life easier on many things, I’m happy for them.

On the other side, I share your concerns, because everything that gets adopted by the masses is inevitably subject to enshittification, I would never want that to happen to Linux.

We should find a sweet middle-point tho I have no idea what that would be.

I surely hope they never will, no user program should ever be allowed to run at kernel level, that’s what malware does.

I personally avoid those kind of games, but those who won’t can dual-boot.

Not the one you’re asking but I’ve been dual-booting Windows and Linux on my gaming desktop for many years, every time a build a new PC, disabling “secure boot” AND “fast boot” in the BIOS is the very first thing I do and I never had problems (I play on Linux but I keep Windows for testing in case I want to report a bug).

Fast boot is even more troublesome, since it’s a Windows specific feature that allows it to not truly shutdown so it can startup faster later, but that can cause locks for other OS that won’t work correctly.

In theory, Linux should be able to support secure boot (not fast boot), but since that one too was made for Windows, there are cases in which it could cause problems, I will always disable it just to be on the safe side.

Why? It’s the point of Lemmy, being able to participate in communities regardless of where they’re hosted and where your account is registered.