This is really intriguing, but am I reading the instructions correctly? Call me dumb, but I don’t know how to reinstall Win10 Home; I don’t have a recovery CD or anything like that. I’d also need to back up everything first… which would be a pain…

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    8 months ago

    Well that’s unfortunate. I guess different hardware and configs can really make all the difference. In my case I’m using a desktop with no integrated graphics at all, so no chance of that particular problem happening. This build is all-AMD and using Wayland.

    I’ve only had two small issues thus far, across the dozen or so games I’ve tried on this setup. Both were very easy to fix, though one is worth mentioning as it’s loosely similar to yours: in Valheim literally every time I started the game it’d default to the wrong audio output and I’d have to manually switch it back.

    Sorry to hear about your own bad experience. Given the rate at which the desktop ecosystem keeps improving, however, and marketshare creeps up, I’m sure in a few more years it might be worth giving it another shot with your setup.

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      Yeah, it was frustrating because using Ubuntu for gaming on it was the main reason I got the laptop, but I couldn’t deal with changing launch options in steam every time I rebooted. Hasn’t soured me on Linux gaming, still hoping for that bright future. :)

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        I definitely see how that’d be an annoyance. Glad it hasn’t soured you long-term on it though.