This may be a silly question, but as far as online games that work, it shouldn’t matter if my friends are on Windows, right?

For the most part it’s fine like the other comment mentioned.

However there are a few edge cases like Borderlands 2 that is like pulling teeth to make work.

Not having touch anything is a selling point for me. Bonus points if I can roll up the window too.

I’m not the original commenter.

However any game with invasive anticheat tends to be allergic to Linux.

Microsoft game pass has really good value that isn’t supported on Linux. (I’m told the streaming stuff did work but I haven’t personally confirmed)

I have family that likes to play fortnite with me and that didn’t work last time I looked into it.

You could migrate jellyfin into a Linux container and share the media through a local loopback and configure it for a headless installation if you can’t give up that Windows installation.

Alternatively like another person suggested configuring it as an service could help here

The paperclip problem begins with this.

You forgot the daily scrums at 8am sharp!

I might buy it when they go on a blowout sale.

After seeing the mouse with ports on the bottom. I’m convinced that there’s a disgruntled designer on their team and this is a cry for help.

If you’re familiar with any Zelda game I wouldn’t worry about playing oot first. (But I would still suggest playing it if you enjoy retro games) They tell different stories and happen in different worlds. Majora’s mask does build on mechanics you would have learned in oot but it’s not essential. They do make the occasional reference to oot. (To save dev time they recycled a lot of the assets from oot)

I’m glad you had fun with Luigi’s mansion. I never got too far playing as a kid. But I had fun playing the new one with a buddy.

In my opinion, the GameCube version of Majora’s mask was the best one. It’s still a N64 game under the hood but the controls feel nicer and the game runs better.

Edit: some emulators don’t handle the clock correctly in MM. If you feel like you’re always running out of time or rushing. It may be a bug!

Also there is a PC port of both oot and mm. But I’ve not tried it

I’ve tried a few different services, aside from hidive the rest had a fairly poor experience.

So give hidive a shot if you’re interested in a smooth experience.

Did you have fun?

Have you experienced majora’s mask? (great for a spooky experience)

I’m just being a little pedantic. But I believe you meant x64?

Edit: x86_64 thanks guys

My 6TB drive just died. So I’m in the market for a new one.

They both look the same on mobile. 🤷🏻‍♀️

https://www.newgrounds.com/

telnet bbs.lunduke.com

https://www.neopets.com/home/

https://www.oldschool.runescape.com/

Generally speaking that’s ill-advised, antimalware tools rely on heuristics and active samples.

You don’t wanna be the first person to get xyz virus. It’s certainly better than nothing though.

Unless you have an app you can’t live without Linux is the most accessible than it ever has been.

I kept each installation on a separate hard drive for that reason.

In this case it didn’t matter how it’s installed

I’d suggest using IFME (https://x265.github.io/download.html) it does support MKV.

Due to the nature of video, using another codec will have some differences even if it’s minimal.

But if you encode the video as AV1 with conservative settings it should be possible to reclaim a lot of that space with minimal impact.

Metadata should be retainable but you’ll likely need to experiment.

Microsoft has largely mitigated this concern by pushing all their fresh updates to the consumers for testing before pushing them to their sensitive business customers.

They also released an update that broke dual boot Linux installations. Still feeling that one