Can you provide more details? What you've described so far sums up most RTS games. Was it real time? Turn based? Were the units modern day? Historical? Sci-fi?
I recently did the same. Had an opportunity to buy a laptop at a good price, and I immediately swapped the m.2 drive with a blank for Linux Mint. There's definitely been a learning curve and a lot of web searching for tweaks and fixes, but the overall user experience has been great. I'll very likely be swapping to Linux on my desktop soon.
It really helps that there's a quest book to guide you through some of the mods. Otherwise, you're just searching for recipes in your inventory and hoping for the best.
I highly recommend playing with a mod pack on a return playthrough. You can still do all of the vanilla stuff, but the experience is also expanded upon with things like steam quarries, programmable mining bots, digitized wireless storage, blood magic, dimensional travel, and cozy kitchens with in-depth cooking.
I used to dive pretty hard into Feed The Beast, but All The Mods seems to have taken over it. The big thing with these packs is making all the mods play nice with each other, so they can share resources and be cross compatible.
I recall one pack where the world was a wasteland. All the ores were depleted, and the oceans were toxic. You had to figure out how to try to grow crops, make survival gear to explore, and eventually make mystical crops that could produce tiny bits of ores that you could harvest.
Somehow, our gaming habits keep overlapping. I just started playing Minecraft again a few days ago. However, I'm playing "All The Mods 10". I've been focusing on creating an aesthetically pleasing factory this time. So far, I have a cozy house with a workshop. My mineshaft is behind the house, and it's my starter shack converted into a garden shed.
I just get a quick black flicker and it goes back to minimized. I also tried changing the win argument to :SELECT: from the documentation you linked, but it still doesn't pull up the window and keep it there.
The command does work for other windows, for clarification.
An extra detail: I'm using 2 monitors. When playing with borderless window and moving the mouse rapidly, I've had my mouse escape the focused window a few times and start clicking stuff on my desktop.
If you feel tempted to try Star Citizen, just go play Elite:Dangerous. You'll have a much better experience for a fraction of the cost, and still get to do all the things you were hoping to do in SC.
I agree. The transition has been fairly smooth, and cinnamon edition looks great.