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Mint has treated me just fine since I converted.

I’m not proficient with Linux whatsoever, but Mint has literally been the most newbie user-friendly OS I have tried to date. So Windows can suck it.

For gaming, Steam runs things great. And for other things like GOG, Battle.net, Lutris has server me well. Proton does a good job.

Yeah, I know it was unrelated. And I’m sorry for high-jacking your comment.

Just thought I’d add my own little “funny” when it came to writing. :)

my writing is so cryptic i am the only one that could ever understand it.

That sounds like my handwriting. And If written in a hurry, even I struggle to make sense of the mix of runes, hieroglyphics and child’s drawings I call my “cursive”.

One of those “Surely it’ll only affect people I don’t like, right? Not me…” moments.

Nice

I switched from Windows to Mint. Best thing I ever did for myself as It’s extremely user friendly.

Is it the best choice for you? That depends on what you’re looking for in Linux.

Personally I was just fed up with Microsoft and all the corporate shenanigans. But I’m too old and dumb to learn how to properly utilize Linux (not gonna kid myself on that front), and Mint has proven a great “Baby’s First Linux” for me.

I feel like that’s a more general human problem and not exclusive to people of any specific political orientation.

I thought the whole downside of chrome permeated anything chromium and any other subset of it.

A quick look at TPB’s top 100 games tells me that was a lie.

Linux Mint for sure.

It’s more welcoming to newbies than even Windows.

If your company is successful, that’s gonna happen anyway.

If they took the first step and worked towards, or remained, independent and selfpublished, that would make it a bit easier.

But Bethesda, Obsidian, InXile and even Blizzard couldn’t sell their asses to Microsoft fast enough once the offer was on the table.

I get you want to support the Devs, but they kinda made their choice. They had independence, some quite successfully, but they sold it.

Maybe it’s time to look for new studios to support and help up to contest with the old buggers?

Most people do. But it’s not enough.

Even if all their users payed, it wouldn’t be enough.

I’ll make a wild assumption and say that the people that made the adblockers might also be using them.

Plus, it’s likely to evolve into a “less ads” deal eventually.

The one constant is that there’s never enough money to satisfy corporate needs.

I don’t think we should underestimate the savvy programmers out there, who are just as fed up with ads as the rest of us.

And at this point, most of the cousins who don’t know how to update their adblocker are already there. It’s a matter of time. YT won’t keep pouring money into this. Just long enough to the “balance the books.” When the ‘number of viewed ads’ start slowing down again and they’ve hit their max viewership, they’ll call off the hounds.

The question is ‘Do they want to keep throwing money at techs in the hope of forcing people to watch their ads?’

At best, people will keep finding ways to get around the ads and YT will have wasted a ton of money on nothing.

At worst, a bunch of people will abandon YT all together. And YT will have wasted a ton of money getting rid of them.

Both options seem self-defeating and wasteful.

Best of luck to ya

I think a “Top Mods” search should cover you fairly well.

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/top/

You want the Scrips Extender first and foremost. Most mods depend on it.

The 4GB Patcher is also a must, if I remember correctly

After that Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP should cover most of the bugs. (I can’t remember exactly how much it covers, just that it’s was an essential mod back when I was screwing around with it)

Other than that it’s a bit of trial and error. If a problem pops up or if one persists, look around for more specific patches.

If you never finished it, I’d recommend just sticking with Bug Fixers and Stability Mods.

The game holds it’s own without changes.

I’d even hold off on graphical mods as there’s little that can be done to improve the visuals without complete texture overhauls. And they tend to just make the contrasts more apparent and can cause even more instability to an already extremely unstable game.