C’mon bro, it’s 2023, if I have to tell you that sarcasm is difficult to determine through text then that’s your fault, not mine.

It’d be a lot cooler if you weren’t

RedHat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu.

All are good choices.

Okay, this helped a lot. Got D4 working (noticeably lower graphic quality, but completely smooth fps and very playable), and also massively reduced the stuttering for OW2.

For any future readers, I definitely recommend Bottles over Lutris or standard Wine for Battle.net and related games.

Thank you very much for the suggestion!

Thanks for this, will give it a try!

Nope, not Nvidia, AMD Radeon RX 6700XT

Yeah, I think it may be a shader compilation issue for OW2 but I saw reports of people not suffering this or being able to fix it so I hoped there had been progress.

I did try downgrading VKD3D, as I mentioned in my post, but this didn’t help with D4.

Ubuntu is pretty solid, but there are definitely still issues. Things like screen sharing on Discord etc cannot also share your sound, and it’s still difficult (some cases impossible) to manage lighting and macro keys on gaming keyboards.

It’s not big issues, just a series of small pains that you have to deal with repeatedly.

I think you do have to be careful here though. If you’re too permissive you allow bigotry, but if you’re too restrictive you cut off honest, good faith debate and create echo chamber silos where beliefs are never challenged.

Bigotry should never be accepted but that means non-discriminatory opinions, especially ones you disagree with, should be allowed.