For me both have their use cases. Heroic is my go to for GOG and Epic games and everything else not Steam (e. g. old Windows install files that I still have lying around). EA App only ran for me on Lutris until one day it didn’t. Then I tried with Bottles and it worked ever since. Not trying to add more confusion, but for some people Bottles has a more intuitive interface than Lutris.

Why not test Secureblue instead of Silverblue?

It’s not what OP asked for.

Forgive the not so serious remark: you can run Linux in Excel!

I’ll sure try Diablo, I totally forgot about that. Having played Diablo 2 Resurrected recently, that fits. Also want to try that Lego game, never heard about it, but it looks fun. And maybe some Icewind Dale, but not sure how that holds up :)

This is great, thank you so much. Saved so I can add something if I come across anything you hadn’t covered yet.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some gaming to do!

FAQ on their website: password manager is disabled

Sorry to hear you had trouble with the installation. Since we have such a vast variety of hardware, you will always find a person having trouble with a specific distro I believe. That’s why having so many to choose from is awesome - but also a bit daunting at the start. Glad it’s working now, hope it stays that way.

I remember you asking about what distro to pick, what a wonderful follow-up post. Thank you so much for sharing this.

Thanks for the explanation! I agree, this has been very helpful already. Now I go and do some reading on it.

Oh I see, thanks. I thought you could also edit images with Inkscape. I’m apparently not very well versed in these topics.

Curious why you would need Gimp and Inkscape? Wouldn’t one of them be enough? Is one of them better suited for certain tasks?

Some others on ProtonDB are reporting this. For me switching to an older version (7.0-6) worked fine.

EA App works great with Bottles. I haven’t tried Ubisoft Connect myself, but the website says it works on a “gold” level - so might have some problems.

You can use the Bottles installers for that: https://docs.usebottles.com/bottles/installers Here’s the list of all apps they have preconfigured: https://usebottles.com/appstore/

Well, these launchers can be a bit confusing at first, but you will get used to all that. And if you still have questions, that’s what the community is here for.

You can select GE-Proton in Heroic under “Wine Manager”.

Most games simply work for me in Heroic but sometimes I have to try a few versions until it’s working properly.

That’s not too hard a question for me, I’ve been using the same DE for years: KDE

Glad you got it sorted.

I don’t think that’s distro related. I’ve played GW2 on Mint with an Nvidia card and it worked just like on Windows. I installed the Steam version though and linked my account.

What Proton version are you using in Steam to play it, did you try some different ones? Without knowing what your issue really is, there are some tinker steps mentioned on ProtonDB, maybe have a look. It’s really hard to recommend anything without more info.

And here’s KDE’s: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/design