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  • It is also helpful to know that if you make any mistakes in you character build, you can respec your class and ability scores very early in the game for a fairly low price. The things that you cannot change are your origin, race or appearance, but these don’t have such a great impact (unless you take the Dark Urge origin and find a bit too bloody for your tastes - in which case you have to start over)

    Personally, I never played DND but I did play a bunch of RPGs before (such as the Pathfinder games on PC) and I love checking out character build guides. The learning curve of BG3 was pretty smooth for me.



  • Dropping by to throw some more praise onto the pile for Nobara Linux - it’s my current distro and I have an AMD RX 6700 as well. All the games in my Steam library work great, including Baldur’s Gate 3 (no tweaks necessary other than enabling the latest GE-Proton version). Unfortunately I haven’t played any of the games you listed; my preferences lean mostly towards RPGs like Elden Ring, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, Valheim (with mods!), Enderal and so on.


  • This, or the Tray Icons: Reloaded extension for GNOME, which adds the Steam icon to the tray bar. From there, you can click it and it shows a list of the installed games.

    If you are new to Linux, GNOME has quite a different feel from your usual Windows flow. I personally love it and would never swap back.

    (Off-topic, but If you would be interested in a gaming-oriented distro, I would recommend Nobara Linux - the official version looks fairly familiar for Windows users and it also comes with a bunch of gaming-related stuff preinstalled like Steam, wine dependencies, mesa drivers for AMD, etc)



  • Since people have suggested virtual machines, I wanted to mention that most of them will not be using your GPU (and GPU passthrough is tricky), so they won’t be helpful if you are using GPU-intensive apps.

    On the other hand, moving form Adobe Illustrator to Inkscape was a pretty smooth transition for me, and I can’t say I miss any of Adobe’s features (except the Shape builder, which is also coming to Inkscape). However, I’m not a professional illustrator - it’s mostly a hobby for me and I only use it for creating icons, simple illustrations and infographics

    Gaming experience has been really good, though! (Steam/Proton and yuzu for emulating some Switch games)




  • Surprised no one mentioned Enderal yet. It’s a total conversion mod for Skyrim (special edition) and it really fits the bill of mystery/horror. It’s my favorite game from a narrative point of view; the soundtrack and voice acting is also excellent, and I have re-listened it long after finishing the game. The only issue would be that you mentioned you would prefer a more linear experience, rather than an open world. The main quest is fairly linear, but you can still go off the rails and explore - but the pull of the story will always set you back on track.

    One of my favorite tracks, which summarizes quite well the atmosphere of the game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKLkOnvFG5w
    Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DHkmHBPs2Q

    ProtonDB lists it as playable on SteamDeck; the game itself is free, although you will need Skyrim Special edition (which is around 10$ on Steam right now).