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Cautiously optimistic.

It’s also not worth my time or money to track down old, beat-up Chromebooks and put Linux on them, and yet here we are.

I’m weird, so the things I find fun are weird.

I look forward to thrifting one in a few years, then installing Linux on it.

Attempted satiation of the curse. Probably.

Sir, if you are inserting actual shit, you’re not going to have much success either turning screws or making holes in things.

If we’re speaking philosophically, do we really know that an electric kitchen mixer, when fitted with a bit, would make a terrible drill? It’s probably not something that’s been tested or studied much, if at all.

For all we know, it would make an excellent one.

Maybe we should apply for grants, talk to labs. Set up some experiments.

They’d probably die long before they had a chance to try working.

The device is the drill.

The driver or bit is the thing you insert into the end of the drill.

Oh yeah, totally correct. But it bills itself as a “gaming distro.”

You’ve already gotten several good replies, and I’ll add a couple more details that might be related to your use case:

Bazzite is a “gaming distro” with built-in Steam integrations. It’s great if all you do on the machine is game and do gaming-related things, like streaming. It’s what I use on my dedicated gaming PC, under my TV. Things mostly Just Work, and I’ve only had to mess with configuration files when setting up things like wake-on-USB and my custom Network shares.

Gaming and streaming will work on basically any distro. And if you pick a distro based on Debian or Fedora, it should be stable and fairly easy to get used to.

Don’t wipe out Windows yet. Install Linux on a separate partition, or even better a separate drive. That way, you can switch off between them until you’re fully used to Linux. Let yourself transition over a few months. That way, if you struggle to do something in Linux, you can switch back over to Windows and get it done.

Some folks try to change all at once, then get frustrated if they hit a stumbling block. It’s safer to keep Windows as a backup, so you don’t feel trapped if something goes wrong.

It’s not that they aren’t as good, necessarily.

More that the others do less “grey-hat” stuff, and therefore are less likely to cause harm or alter the content they host.

No.

They think that relying on a hostile archive will ultimately harm Wikipedia.

They know the shortcomings of the other options.

And, following that, a laxative

So, what you’re saying is, you’re not writing code.

Yes but what kind of soup

This is important

Why would anyone not like that? I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

Yeah, it says it couldn’t load an API-related windows file/group of files. So yes, either something is missing, or something isn’t in the expected location.

If it can’t load a file, and if that file does exist, something path-related needs to be fixed.

Other folks have responded with good advice about things to try, so I won’t repeat any of it here. Hopefully once you get that fixed, your games will launch!

Are you logging your attempted game launches?

I wonder if the games are trying to search for files in a specific path, failing to find that path, and exiting. Or maybe something similar. The logs should tell you.

It’s disconcerting to see how much Thingiverse has been bounced around.