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.

Unfortunately, it looks like gamescope just isn’t going to work for my system.

It didn’t seem to have an effect, unfortunately.

I’ll take a look into that. This laptop is using one of those hybrid Nvidia GPUs, so it took me a bit to work out the performance issues at first.

I’ll give that a shot tonight and let you know

It does not seem to work for me. After inputting

wmctrl -a helldivers -b toggle,fullscreen

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.

From what I’ve looked up, it does. However, at some point the ability to change border settings in Themes was removed.

I just gave that a shot. When I come back and re-fullscreen, the game minimizes and goes back to the problem state.

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.

Steam Deck 2 isn’t coming for a long time. Steam Deck OLED is still more than viable.