Dundee Lad

…you are now dead to me!

After weeks and weeks and weeks of futile attempts to get this fucking program to install and run on Linux, I have finally given up and sent it to Oblivion.

For, you see, something better has come along. Folks, I present: Amethyst Mod Manager. A native Linux mod manager that works along the lines of MO2 but actually works a thousand times better.

As an example of what I mean, MO2 makes you manually install SKSE into the Skyrim directory, whereas Amethyst allows you to install automatically the way you do every other mod. Same goes for Part 2 of the Engine Fixes that required you to manually drop the files into the Skyrim directory–Amethyst does it for you.

Of course, in Windows this is a much easier procedure than it would be in the psycho circus that is Linux, so thank fuck sanity prevailed with that decision.

So anyway, apologies to anyone who may have kept an eye out for the promised Mod Organizer 2 tutorial I was writing–and I was writing it and taking screenshots to illustrate procedures–but that all got lost when I deleted my Windows partitions and switched to Linux full time.

It should be noted that on every site that recommends CachyOS for gaming, they neglect to mention that it doesn’t actually include any of the programs you need to fucking play games. Steam wasn’t installed by default. Proton wasn’t installed by default. Lutris, Hero, or anything that helps Windows users acclimatise to gaming on Linux was not fucking installed. FPS and optimised this that and the other is pointless if the newbie has to jump through 10 dozen hoops to install and play their favourite fucking game.

Didn’t see it mentioned anywhere, so only found out after loading the live boot but it should be stated in big letters right at the beginning that Bazzite DOES NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHER LINUX DISTROS. Yeah, you read that right. I have Cachy and Tumbleweed installed, and wanted to try Bazzite but was told it cannot be installed alongside any other Linux distro but you can dual boot with fucking Windows. How fucking shit is that?

So for the last couple of weeks I’ve been lazing about at home on holiday. To keep myself occupied I decided to give Linux another go, since I’d been hearing it has got so much better for serious gaming. After a lot of fucking about with various distros, I finally settled on RegataOS, which is a Brazilian distro that runs on OpenSUSE. And so far, the biggest criticism I have of it, is that unlike pretty much every other distro out there, this one has no support forum. The only official support seems to be on a fucking Telegram group. Uh, fuck that Russian shitshow. Anyway, the few issues I’ve had with it have been covered elsewhere on the net and all in all, it is running beautifully. So good, in fact, that I’ve hardly spent any time on Windows 11 this past fortnight.

Anyway, more later but for now I just want to point out one important difference between Linux and Windows; in Linux, USB actually works properly! Seriously, on Windows transferring a 2 GB file to a USB3 memory stick takes ages because it averages around 30 to 40 MB/s. That same file, on that same memory stick takes seconds on Linux because it is being transferred at an average of 130 MB/s. Good job, Microsoft.