I have Radeon 6900 rx and it games sweet on Linux. I’ve played games on Windows with it too without issue (dual boot).

Generally, AMD is king on Linux, Nvidia is suffering (had drivers updates break OS installs). Nvidia is only really if you want ray tracing or Cuda, and I’ve never needed to.

OpenSuse Tumbleweed is my distro of choice. Up to date kernel. Rolling distro. Stable.

You’re in the UK? Lol

The community centre can be a really interesting place.

Going to the mines can also be quite rewarding.

Depends really. I say it this way, but talked to a Spanish speaker who said it was Lee-bree.

It’s a double edged sword. The channels are bridged across to Matrix, and the poll ran in multiple places, but 90%+ of the player community are on Discord.

Because MineClone2 is a dreadful name, and unfortunately, when ever anyone tries to differ anything slightly, a head can be taken clean off. The project doesn’t want to be a full clone, but heavily inspired by, but with it’s own direction. It needed to go.

Something up to date with a newer kernel. Wine devs say that’s best to get updates and benefits quicker given how things are changing quickly.

Given that, I’d say Open Suse, Arch or Fedora. I use Open Suse and am very happy with it. Meets my indie gaming needs.

Unreal Engine. I’ve been enjoying learning it and building it. It’s powerful and so far has solved every problem I’ve had without much pain.

It’s an indie. Indies just piece stuff together based on the experience of their devs.

Games industry is mostly binary files. Especially in Unreal. Perforce is popular from what I’ve heard from those in the field.

Where you are… I’ve never seen an example of this yet in the UK.

Even legacy codebases get migrated easy. SVN etc. belongs in a museum. Best red flag for dead end dev job.

Project zomboid had to start again after flat got burgled and laptop gone. Offsite backups are key for theft and fire. Version control is the easiest and cheapest way.

Someone always knows someone that drinks, smokes and eats crap and lives until mid 90s. Doesn’t mean it’s good health advice.

Beware anecdotal evidence.

I have no idea. It’s quite subjective.

You can install packages and remove them and it resolves dependencies, just using different commands…

It’s a strategy, it requires planning and thinking. Comparing to FPS is crazy. Pick up gun and shoot.

HoMM3 is quite simple. Get towns and upgrade them. Make monsters. Kill. Most stuff you can learn and figure out as you play. It was the first game of that type I played. I’m not great at it, but that’s more because it’s hard to master, but you can still play a reasonable game.

It’s worth persisting as its one of the best games made and people still play it decades later.

I think WINE recommend an up to date distro due to rapidly changing stuff needing up to date software and kernel. I think Debian wouldn’t be great for that. I’d personally recommend OpenSuse. Rolling, up to date and great with KDE. Good luck.

I would second up to date distros for the same reasons. I think the WINE guys suggested as much. I’d personally go OpenSuse as it’s rolling, up to date, solid and great for KDE.