I use the XFCE version, it’s around 400 MB idle, fluxbox should be even less I think.

I work for a big enterprise, we have RHEL on all our Linux servers save for a few that are SuSe for SAP.

Oh didn’t know that, thanks!

I agree those arguments have no legal ground, but I don’t believe emulators are made with the primary purpose of circumventing protections, it’s just naive to think people wouldn’t use them for that purpose IMO.

Haha :D English is not my first language, if the wording is not correct or there’s a better way of saying it, I welcome any correction :)

Valve then forwarded us the statement from Nintendo’s lawyers, and told us that we had to come to an agreement with Nintendo in order to release on Steam.

We all know Nintendo is a bitch and there’s nothing illegal in emulators, but Valve’s stance looks reasonable to me, it would be serious damage to Steam if they were involved in legal litigation.

I doubt it, if it was you can imagine the uproar about every other mount still having a cast bar.

That’s not to say I wouldn’t love it, I love instant mounts in GW2, but in WoW either they make all mounts instant or they better do none.

Why all the negative comments? What’s wrong with having some tribute to another game?

The concept of having to compile something yourself is basically foreign to me

There’s no need to, what software do you need that you can’t find on Mint repositories?

having to basically rely on a built-in app database/store to easily install apps… Kinda stinks to me, and not being able to simply download an installer from a website and having the program, whatever program, up and running reliably within a minute, the concept seems ridiculous

Having an app repository is way more secure than downloading software from random websites, it’s also way faster.

But it’s fine if you don’t like it, each person has its own preferences.

I played the hell out of Rift before it went F2P, it had 2 support specs (Bard (rogue) and Archon (mage)) that were mandatory in raids but not so much in dungeons, raid bosses were designed around having them while in dungeons there were useful only if dungeons were new so people weren’t geared enough yet for them. I guess that would equal to raids and m+ designed around support going forward.

If people actually end up being OK with doing less damage because they buff the group

That’s not something to take for granted IMO, some people just want to top the dps meters, that happened in Rift regardless of the game being designed with support in mind from the start, I believe it will happen in WoW too, tho it’s perfectly fine.

In any case, I love what they’re doing, support is fun and “shaking the meta” this way is fun too IMO, gives people something totally new to learn.

I don’t because no antivirus can protect you from yourself, I learned that the hard way while I was still using Windows many years ago.

I had antivirus and antimalware on Windows and I kept them updated and ran scans regularly, almost religiously, than I got a malware that antivirus couldn’t detect (they take a while to be updated with new viruses/malware that constantly come out) and the only way to remove it was a blank new install following a specific procedure to clean it all.

That day I understood that no matter how attentive you are about your antivirus, you’re never really protected until it’s you who learns what to do and what not while accessing the web, so I did a bit of research about how to better configure my PC, how to better recognize phishing/scamming, using adblocker, don’t download random software, stuff like that.

I basically learned “how to behave”. I stopped using antivirus/antimalware on Windows and I didn’t catch a virus since, then I switched to Linux and I still apply the same principles of “good behavior”.

That’s not to say I’m immune to viruses, I’m certainly not, but my mindset now is that if I ever catch a virus, it will be my fault for doing something I shouldn’t have done, and I’ll do my best to learn from it instead of relying on software to do that for me.

Yup, I’m very casual too, did serious raiding in the past but I’m getting too old for it :D

Overwhelming beginners with more than they can chew is not the best way to welcome them to Linux, giving them the chance to learn a bit at a time is instead.

There are distros that need little to no intelligence to set up and maintain

It’s not a matter of intelligence but prior knowledge, Arch wiki is the best thing ever for everyone, even if you don’t use Arch, BUT you need some Linux knowledge - at least Linux “lingo” - to be able to understand it.

That’s something a Linux newbie doesn’t have yet, exactly the reason why Arch is not recommended for newbies.

Being lightweight or not doesn’t depend on the distro but the desktop manager (the graphic interface). Unlike Windows, the graphic in Linux is separated from the system so you can use different desktop managers on the same distros.

The lightest DE is LXQT but it’s pretty barebone, XFCE has more features while still being very light, avoid GNOME and KDE.

That being said, I suggest you try Linux MX XFCE or Mint XFCE first, if that’s not light enough for your liking, try Lubuntu, that’s Ubuntu with LXQT as default DE.

I used it a lot years ago, I can confirm it’s extremely easy, both using it an customizing it, I haven’t seen another editor making it so straightforward and easy to setup your own color coding for example (I used that a lot for dokuwiki pages), but I thought that project was abandoned at some point so I switched to codium.

I see by your post that it’s still being actively developed, I’ll give it another shot, thanks for sharing.

That’s if you use opensource drivers, good for AMD but not so much for NVIDIA.

There’s not a “best” distro for gaming, it very much depends on what games you play.

If you want to play latest releases, a rolling release is most probably the best option for you, I hear Suse Tumbleweed is very good if you don’t like Arch.

If you want less “aggressive” updates but not exactly a stable, you can try Solus, it’s a sort of middle-ground between the 2.

If your games are not the latest ones, a Debian-based distro is a very good option, rock-solid, updated enough and without any “extra fluff”.

I personally use Linux MX XFCE and I’m very happy about it.

Glad it can help :) Good luck with your mount!

They’re not telling (rightfully so) and hopefully won’t until all instances are fixed.