I very recently made a shift similar to yours, though I don't play anything MMO. I've been playing Minecraft (finally moved to Java) and Starfield, and both work perfectly well on Bazzite Desktop. I keep Windows for my CAD app and some other little garbage apps.
Between Steam and Heroic, most Windows games seem to install fine, though I haven't dived into many of them really. Because of Valve funding Proton development, gaming has gone from a huge liability for Linux to a significant strength.
I get it. Personally, I can't do ISO-style left-shift where it's smaller and has another key between it and the nearest letter. I don't use Right shift much, and when I do I land on it's left side, so that wasn't an issue, and it didn't take me long to get used to curling my thumb a bit more on the numpad. Layouts that compress things a bit but retain a numpad are my sweet spot.
I honestly forget who at this point, but I think a few people still believe that I met my wife during a brief educational stay in her home state, when in fact it was online and years later.
Just that whatever level of fame he achieved, his talent and performances warranted more, IMHO, and between being choosy on projects, the occasional commercial dud, having a few of his greatest performances before he was a major name, and finding success in supporting roles while having "classic Hollywood" looks, there was just a disconnect. I have enjoyed his work much more than I have Tom Cruise's, for instance.
Not entirely surprising I guess, but still a sad one. Somehow stayed just a touch under the radar despite some of the most iconic roles of the 80s and 90s.
Yup. Anyone other than an equity partner is literally a little money machine made of meat. A third-year will bill 2000+ hours (and most can bill maaaaybe 80% of their working hours) at $800-$1200 per hour and take home maybe $300k in salary and bonus.
Well, then there's the Indiana Jones brainstorming session with Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan.
G — He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve.
G — It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time. S — And promiscuous. She came onto him.
G — Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he…
I guess by the time the movie gets made, between script changes and casting decisions, nothing is certain and 17-22 is probably most likely, but George is a product of his time and place, and not exclusively in good ways.
The 580 is definitely the current bottleneck on Starfield, and likely on any other remotely intensive games. I am going to return the old-stock 2600 as soon as it arrives and instead use an eBay 3600 I got for slightly cheaper, and I'm going to stalk 6600 class GPUs until I find a good deal. I've had the mobo and 2400G for 5 and half years, and the HTPC case it's in for something like 18. The poor thing has had a couple of extra fans bolted on and almost 40 holes drilled into it to increase airflow. It has a FIREWIRE port (disconnected), a floppy bay (with 3D printed insert to mount USB3 ports) and two optical bays (one of them still filled). And I still think it looks better than the RGB monstrosities that seem to be in vogue, LOL.
Okay, so I actually bumped up the Amazon 2600 to an eBay 3600, and yeah, I think the GPU camp was right. Starfield is pegging my GPU but not stressing the CPU, and Minecraft bedrock pushes harder on the CPU but doesn't quite max it. I think a used RX 6600 will finish out my budget and be about what I want from this platform, which I've had for 5+ years.
Ahh, the rare and prized Ancho Banana.