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Mathsiel, Good that it worked for you. I am still playing Skyrim too.

Thanks for the clarification, clear now. I don't like to "sit around" neither...

Re "six years after support for XP ended" Are you a thrill seeker? :) Re "I played with RedHat linux" Then I think you could start with Fedora! Re "(is there something wrong with me??)((you can lie to me, please. :) ))" Hmmm, sorry, I'm afraid that my knowledge of English is not enough for getting the nuances of meaning like in that phrase... Did you mean working just for communicating with your co-workers? If yes, my answer is - Why not, especially if it is the only way to communicate with them! :) (I couldn't lie here... :huh:) Re "I have a laptop... Might try some flavor of linux on that. Provided my software will run on it." The most full collection of the information about Linux laptop compatibility that I know of: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop - please note the line "Acer – Apple – ASUS – Dell – Fujitsu – HP – IBM/Lenovo – MSI – Samsung – Sony – Toshiba – Other" with links to the corresponding chapters.

Yes, I also liked XP better than 7 and 7 better than 10... But 7, since it is not being updated anymore, has become less safe... Quickly as possible - understandable. I thinks your move from 7 to 10 was "inevitable" too. But now, when you have (quickly) got your new system running, you could try Linux. Sure, a lot of stuff has changed during 20 years. Linux history is not much longer than 20 years :smile: I think you could try some distros first in a VM (for example, in Virtualbox), without haste, step-by-step. A good starting point for choosing distros could be the advanced search on Distrowatch - "all rolling distros", and reading reviews. Unfortunately, I am not experienced in many different distros, because before Gentoo I had only Debian, it was a long ago. Since I found Gentoo, I tried other distros only for testing purposes, in VMs, mainly Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, a little - CentOS Stream and PCLinuxOS; liked, in general, all of them, except PCLinuxOS (a combination of non-systemd and rolling system seemed promising for me, but I didn't like how it all has been implemented and a general OS quality); CentOS is not for desktops, though, it's a server OS.

@zixi: Yes, you could use symbolic links. Or, I think, you could try to install Vortex in the way I did ("custom install location"; pointing where the game is) - in this case, theoretically, it should not matter (?) when the game was installed...

@HeyYou: Re Win I see... I thought I can congratulate you on joining the world of Linux users :smile: Are you looking for "*nix that will natively support DirectX"? But AFAIK there is no such thing. DirectX is supported via wine (proton) only in *nix. I think you could make a list of Win apps (games etc) which are important for you and then check if/how they are supported by wine (proton) in https://appdb.winehq.org/ and https://www.protondb.com/ - that will give you understanding of what should work OK in *nix, what - not, and what - yes, but partially (with which limitations). And https://lutris.net/games is also helpful. Re HOMM3 modding So, it is not difficult technically, the point is in finding the proper place to edit? Good to know! Re Dragon Utopia I have always loved Dragon Utopias but your suggestions remind me descriptions of Ultima Online, where all the loot of a player is being lost after his death - it's a little bit "hardcore" for me, I've always liked to keep my loot, because I am not such a "hardcore" gamer :smile: For this reason I never tried Ultima Online; WoW / TESO are more forgiving in this sense. And when fighting in HOMM locally, not with a player (or in Skyrim), and dying, I've always re-played from a save :smile:

Hi HeyYou, Nice to see you agian too, If I remember well, about a year ago you said something like that moving from Windows to Linux is inevitable for you... Did the inevitable happen? :) I remember, me and my friend were fighting in HOMM3-Multiplayer by nights, me - for Solmyr, he - for undead (a lot of troops resurrrected), and the results were 50/50, we were roughly even :) Eh, I was only starting to learn programming languages in times of HOMM3, and didn't think to mod games... Good... But you didn't mention the Dragon Utopia :)

What a coincidence! :smile: Also, totally OT: I remember, my favourite player was Solmir, with Chain Lightning...

You have Oldrim now, right? Which are the current issues with your Oldrim/Vortex? I've read that your Vortex doesn't recognize Oldrim, and you believe, it's because you installed Oldrim after Vortex. You could try to re-install Vortex and will see if that will fix the ussue. SKSE - did you try the "manual install"? Something else? Yes, having /home on a separate partition is very useful! Though, a separate partition is not the only way to "separate" a folder: there are also bind mounts. Can be useful when one can't make a separate partition / a free space on a partition is ending. After 12 years in Gentoo I don't understand why people are using Linux distros with the "fixed" (not "rolling") release cycle - it's so inconvenient to re-install the whole OS every year or two. It is usually said, the main advantage is stability... But Gentoo is rolling and at the same time perfectly stable. I've been running few servers on Gentoo - and no problem with stability. Not to mention desktops/laptops... With a rolling distro, you will always have fresh, modern versions of all the software, no need to wait for a new release.

I have Vortex too, and it works well for SE and all of its mods. I installed it after SE and before all the mods, not using Lutris, not using Proton, but using a "standard" Wine, in a separate prefix. At the first launch I pointed to Vortex where my SE is located, and Vortex recognized it. When I was downloading Vortex, I chose the option "custom install location"; for make it work correctly I had to install corefonts and dotnet 4.6, in the same prefix, using winetricks.

@zixi: Getting Games to Work and Modded! @mkienenb: I used to joke that my housemate spent all of his time installing games and never actually played anything other than the intro video before moving on to the next game. Doing so is OK!! The main thing is the process, not the result! :laugh:

Well, I can't compare them, because I don't have Oldrim, but SE's compatibility suits me perfectly. It "just works", including SKSE and SkyUI. Thanks for the heads-up! Useful to know, even if I'd made the saves folder a symbolic link initially... It's what I call "manual installing", I consider it normal :smile: Interesting! Though, I haven't played Might and Magic. But I played (for a very long time) Heroes of Might and Magic 3 :smile: "The more we learn, the less we know"? I like that principle :smile: And I've been playing in WoW for 2 years, and than in TESO for 1 year...

I remember, I quoted some of your sayings :smile:

Yes, these are strange times... I would definitely uninstall a pair of mods from the real life :)

Nice to see an activity in this thread! Oh, zixi, Long time, no see! How are you? I haven't been playing Skyrim for a long time... Lastly, I launched it only for updating/fixing my mods. (I created 4 mods, 1 of them - especially for Linux users :smile: ) Thanks to both of you and to this discussion, I felt how much I want to continue to play Skyrim. I'll have to remember a lot of things that I forgot during this time... Regarding SKSE: I would recommend to install it manually. I have always installed it manually. But I can't say nothing about Oldrim on Linux; I've been playing on Linux in SE only. mkienenb, don't you consider moving to SE? I believe that it is more robust, with a lot of bugfixes. Compatibility with the latest mod versions is another its advantage. My saves are located in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/Skyrim Special Edition/Saves, and yours?