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Honestly anything with a non LTS release schedule will be fine. So long as you keep a relatively recent kernel and GPU drivers it pretty much doesn't matter. You can go for a rolling release like Arch or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or a staged release like Fedora. Even Ubuntu or it's derivatives are fine so long as you stick to the yearly versions and don't have a particularly bleeding-edge hardware.
My only advice is stick to the popular stuff. This applies to both distros and desktop environments. Much easier to troubleshoot things and find help and they have more people using them, which usually means the experience is more polished and bugs get fixed faster.

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TennoCon 2023 Megathread

How can DE always manage to take this game in the absolute fucking wildest possible direction and surprise everyone! I love it! When they teased Wally getting involved, never in a million years would I predict things going this way.
I love the way the stone Man In The Wall tileset looked and the weird creepy enemies shown there, hope we can play some actual missions in there and it won't be just for the quest.
The only thing I'm sad about is that I have to wait all the way to 2024 to see more of it.

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What can you ACTUALLY use Mage Hand for?

I used it a whole 2 times in my entire playthrough. Once to get a certain book from it's trapped pressure plate by throwing it, another to help a certain dwarf from his predicament. The biggest thing that stops me from experimenting more with it is it's limitation to once per short rest and only being present for 10 turns. I get that it's for combat balancing purposes but it does make me just never bother summoning it. Wish they removed that limitation, gave it more utility uses and just completely disabled it's combat abilities instead.

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Patch #1 Now Live!

I don't know why our poor shorty races are so under-represented, Larian did a fantastic job on their models! Compared to male elves and tieflings, the dwarf and gnome selection is vastly superior. And gnome racials are absolutely crazy, who wouldn't want advantage on all the most debilitating saves!?

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Baldur's Gate 3 Final Q&A - Larian on Origin vs Custom Characters, Rule Changes, Crossplay and More

I'm not happy that they still haven't figured out the "pick who initiates dialogue" problem. This has been a thing in Divinity: Original Sin 2, and continues to plague us into Baldur's Gate 3. It's really annoying to watch your party face Sorcerer or Bard sit in the background while the Barbarian gets to fumble all the dialogue checks with their 8 Charisma score just because they happened to be the first one to enter the room, or the one who was closest to the boss before they decided to plea for their life (looking at you, Hag...) There is also the dilemma of whether to pick the dialogue options you would pick or the ones the character speaking would. I would love to pet that puppy but Astarion happened to walk into the door first, so I guess I'll have to pick the option to kick it instead or break character.

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Brand new Linux Mint user having lag issues with external monitor.

Using the open source driver with Nvidia is a bad idea, your card is locked at the minimum clock speed and it's general quality is not comparable to the proprietary driver (this is purely because of Nvidia's hostility to open source, not due to any inabilities of the developers of Nouvea.)
I'm gonna assume you are using the default desktop environment of Mint which is Cinnamon. Have you tried booting a different DE, or even better, a different distribution with something like Gnome or KDE to see if the issue persists?

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Long Resting

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Yeah, I don't know why they didn't bring the Day/Night cycle and Fatigue mechanics from the previous games, it made resting feel much more natural. You even had inns that gave you more healing depending on the quality of room you choose. I know that the companions say they are exhausted, but they like to do so while I barely done anything and still have most of my resources available. In BG1/2 when I heard my companions complain, you bet I'm looking for a safe spot to rest, Fatigue debuffs were no joke!

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Beat the game!

My favourite "good guy" ending was during my 2nd playthrough as a half-orc berserker with Lae'zel, Shadowheart and Wyll in my party. I severed Wyll's contract and saved his father so he became Blade of Avernus, turned Shadowheart from Shar and made Lae'zel abandon Vlaakith for Orpheus. I of course proceeded to murderize our favourite charming cambion and acquire his hammer, freed Orpheus after telling Emperor to fuck off, like I have been for the entire game, and turned myself into a mind flayer. I killed the Netherbrain and at the end, after Orpheus gave me his heartfelt thanks and flew off with Lae'zel to free their people, me, Wyll and Karlach went to Avernus to kick ass together.
The respect both Orpheus and Voss shows you for sacrificing yourself to give their people a chance for freedom really makes the choice worth it, and going to Avernus with Karlach gives you plenty of guilt-free brains to eat and even if you do ultimately loose yourself to your new form, at least you are trapped in the Hells and away from Faerun.

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So, I accidently won the game. A warning...

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Yeah, this is just plainly untrue. All it takes is getting their approval anywhere beyond medium (for some even that's not required) and doing their specific personal quest objectives and they are down to fuck IMMEDIATELY. Ironically in my playthrough, despite not once giving them any signals I'm down, the only companion who didn't try to bone down with me was Karlach, the most openly horny one.

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On the future of dormi.zone

Glad to see dormi.zone is here to stay! Good to have another place to discuss Warframe on, away from the white alien site. Weekly Reset thread sound like an awesome idea, I always forget when Teshin brings his Umbra Forma back (thanks for reminding me to grab it this week!) As for new thread ideas, maybe something like Grinding Tips thread (weekly might be too often though, maybe every new patch?) where people can discuss drop locations, tips and speed-ups for whatever the newest grind is. Might be a good place for people to find info without having to scour through wiki pages and video guides.