18+ My experience with Linux Day 4

Recap: Decided to try out linux for a week after Windows was due for a full reboot/reinstall. The goal: use Linux for one week, and give an honest full bore effort to replace windows as my default OS.

If you want to read the previous logs, they’re on my profile.

I did get Warhammer up and running yesterday, also managed to fix my nordvpn issue. Shoutout to those who responded with the ‘set lan detection on’ option, that beat my whitelist 192.168.1.0/24 solution.

Yesterday I modded a game. BATTLETECH was released a while ago, and a fan made mod called BTA3062 was created one of the most extensive mods for any game ever, adding full board game rules, hundreds of models and mechs not included in the game, and tons of gameplay tweaks to match the official rules.

I managed to get it to work. This was actually a hurdle I wasn’t able to overcome last time I tried Linux, so we’re officially further in the ‘will Linux work as an OS for me’ because my favorite game I have thousands of hours with a specific mod I like actually works on Linux, and works well!

This floors me. I remember when Wine first came out. I was so excited to try it out and remember thinking, “ah now I can finally leave windows”.

Funny thinking back on that, but now? Just wow I can’t believe it in a way.

Open RGB gave me control of my orbweaver chroma again. Which is convenient cause the keys are set to green, except my wasd, which was missing and throwing me off.

The brilliantly named “Input Remapper” detected all my hotas gear and inputs perfectly. The last time I tried Linux it did NOT like hotas gear. Even cooler it can ‘remap anything to anything’, which I’m pretty sure there’s no windows equivalent to. Bonus, I’m no longer running the bullshit bloated Razer software, and logitech software for the mouse. Thankfully the G502 stores it’s setup on the mouse, so I don’t really need to reset it of mess with it. That leaves my webcam on the list of devices that need set up, but it’s already detecting the mic, so I’m not super worried.

So what’s next?

Well I sail the high seas, and there be a game release on the horizon I was waiting for, yarr. I also have a 22tb harddrive filled with the booty of hundreds of games. I can already see emulation software is popular for all my old consoles, so’s I’ll be-a seein’ if I’s can get a few running.

That would be the last hurdle though for real. If I can get that working there’s zero reason to ever leave Linux. That would mean you guys are stuck with me, for better or for worse.