Do Bazzite. It will be unbeatable for just working and ease of use.

Stay away from Manjaro for anything.

SteamOS that Valve offers is not the same as what’s on the Steam Deck. It’s extremely dated and is what it used to be. A real distro from Valve has yet to be released.

The best way to install WoW is using Lutris, which also comes with Bazzite. You search for and install Battle.net, then you can install WoW normally. Lutris can also add a WoW shortcut once WoW is installed, too.

You can also just copy and paste the WoW folder from your Windows Program Files folder. It keeps all your settings and addons.

For addons use Wowup-curse. It’s a open source addon manager that is just straight up better than all others.

Currently, WoW needs Proton-GE to work. Using wine-staging, or the dated wine-ge, and Battle.net will have problems starting. It’s something weird with authentication and connecting online. Proton-GE contains a patch specifically for this.

The easiest way to get Proton-GE is using Protonup-Qt if using KDE plasma, or Proton Plus if you’re using Gnome. For Protonup-QT, you select Steam, then install Proton-GE for Steam. Lutris will also be able to use it.

Just general advice, I’d use the latest Proton-GE as the default for all Steam games.

In Lutris set the runner for Battle.net to Proton-GE.

Source: I’ve tried all but Drauger OS, and currently play retail WoW.

Its anticheat is proper server sided.

So this is why multi monitor support has been a never ending hot mess?!

Seconded. You subscribe to channels you like, and your feed is just the newest videos first. Plus built in sponser block.

Same, with their current 14 beta.

IIRC MPV can be configured to play HDR video as SDR, and you set the .conf things like quality and standard to what you want.

Just look up W10 LTSC. Shouldn’t bug you with upgrades, and has a few more years support.

Released on Steam 17 Oct 2024 and currently @ 49% positive reviews.

What a shame, it’s in my top 3 games I’ve ever played, but I pirated it because Epic app sucks ass. Was going to buy it once it was on Steam.

There’s a systemd OOM service that can be setup. I use CachyOS and they have it as a checkbox to turn it on or off.

All my friends remember when by about +/-3 days. Every year I invite everyone to meet for food and drinks one night.

While not exactly a plot, LoL launched with a decent amount of lore, and grew over time. I still have my physical copy that came with a map of the nations and where main characters were from.

If no side window, who cares, let it be messy! Call it your sleeper office PC.