For any onlookers reading this, I used https://rufus.ie/en/ and I did not get my USB stick bricked.

Oh wow, how did it do the latter!? (I’m more technical than the average person, but half the time I feel too dumb for programming.dev, but I’ll never smarten up if I don’t stick around and learn, so…)

Also shifted off Windows 11 to Fedora. Well, at least, a modified version anyways—Nobara—on the suggestion of a user in the thread.

I understand reluctance to move because of ease of modding.

This does not answer it for all your games, but did you see this post about Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim modding on Linux? It might help for those at least.

I have managed to mod Dragon Age: Origins successfully with the help of winetricks and/or protontricks, I forget which one.

I’m really lucky that I avoid anything that has anticheat. Not because I’m a cheater but because all the slur-screaming 12 year olds and my own fear of getting addicted to MMOs if I ever gave them a try have mostly dissuaded me from anything with online multiplayer.

Which means most of my games are Linux-compatible and I have no gaming group I’m giving up by making the jump :D

Saw something on programming.dev about some extra telemetry Windows 11 was adding or something like that? I forget. It was definitely something I think is bad, that people on programming.dev also think is bad. Then, despite having done registry edits and everything else I could think of to turn off auto Windows updates to make sure I would not get the bad new feature added in an update, my Windows 11 computer auto updated anyways. Got mad, wanted to switch to Linux, asked [email protected] for help, and finally did it four months later, a few days before the new year started.