Drathro

The answer is toolbox or similar container systems. It runs a sandboxed version of another OS inside your Bazzite install with minimal performance overhead. Not quite the same thing as virtualization, but thinking in those terms can be helpful for those new to the concept. It won't let you run and install everything, but it sure will handle a lot!

This might be due to windows hibernation behavior. When you shut down windows 10 and 11, it actually hibernates the drive instead of a full shutdown. You can disable it by turning off "fast startup" option(s). I haven't had to do it in a while so I can't recall exactly where the option lives. Hibernated drives get marked to prevent writing to them as it may corrupt the windows install.

I'm on an AMD system, but adding "VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv" to my launch options fixed all the weird stuttering and significant performance issues for me. It disables reBAR while the game is running, which I wouldn't think would do much, but boy was I surprised when it solved the issues! I've also seen some reports on protondb that running the game through game scope might solve your issues on Nvidia hardware.

As others have said, it might be the new steam recording feature being a touch buggy still. You could also try running the game through gamescope. I've had that resolve weird stuttering when game frame pacing wasn't matching up with the refresh rate of the monitor or compositor properly.

"Collapsing" by Demon Hunter slaps. Thank you, Killing Floor 2, for introducing me.

The older Tribes titles if you're into classic arena shooters. Tribes 2 had some maps and modes that were more Battlefield-esque too. The old Age of series were excellent LAN games as well (empires/mythology). These are PC titles and I'm not sure of your target platform.

Epic generally works fine through Heroic launcher. Though I've had some occasional problems with Heroic and in those cases Lutris running the Windows Epic Game Store Launcher solved every time. Steam and Proton are still the easiest plug n play though.

My napkin math says I'm closer to $212~ per day for my household... That's still WAY higher than I would have expected. And we try to be pretty frugal in some areas. That includes taxes though. Just shelter costs ballparks to $90-ish per day. Start adding in food, transportation costs, communication costs, taxes... It all adds up REALLY fast. Close to $200/day in just bare essentials to exist and operate within the modern world in my area of the US.

Smart home stuff can be incredibly fun and handy, but you have to go into it with a tinkering and very IT-centric mindset. If you've already got a homelab set up then running a home assistant VM/container is pretty dead simple. Beyond that, keep as local an ecosystem as you can to reduce friction and improve security. Set up proper vlans, etc. and most importantly, only make smart what you can either live without or effortlessly control WITHOUT the "smart features". My lights automatically turn on when I get home from work if it's dark- but if my server is down, I can still just hit a light switch. My camera doorbell still rings as long as the power isn't out, etc. Yeah it's work, to set up right, but well worth it if you enjoy tinkering.

I can vouch for Bazzite and always will as long as they keep up the solid work. Running on a laptop (gnome variant for easier fingerprint login) and desktop (KDE, cuz I just prefer KDE day to day). It just works™️.

1000% on the money here. You want encode, decode, calculation, acceleration? They got it. Rock solid, beautiful and simple. You want that shit to actually SHOW UP ON SCREEN? Get the fuck outta here. What do you think nVidia is, a GRAPHICS CARD company!?

Just rock an atomic distro. You choices then become: it boots, OR: the OS is no longer present so I guess it's not my problem anymore.