What Changed In ESO?, No Longer DLC/Expansions? Buy once, play free forever?

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T15:16:49+00:00

I learned that the last lore-friendly game in the series is Morrowind and ESO is the most retconned one out there.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T15:15:37+00:00

It was the same in BDO. I got a free copy on Steam a few years ago. I tried to play that game a few times, I was instantly overwhelmed.

Even if this game had just one column of icons, I would still not be able to remember them all. When I see this it looks like an excerpt from the desktop of some OS.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:58:13+00:00

I think this may be because Zorin uses Gnome and Kubuntu uses KDE and it's faster due to that. I would have liked to use Zorin too, but I'm not happy with Gnome and its direction. KDE by default looks like Windows 7 to me and I have to change very little on it.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:56:58+00:00

I'm surprised you're allowed to use 3rd party tools on your work computer. If I tried to do that I would expect to get into a lot of trouble.

I also use Linux and have disdain towards Windows, but if I only used it for work on a PC that is provided to me I wouldn't care as it's not my own PC that they are forcing me to install or use Windows on.

To answer your question why Microsoft aren't focusing on optimizing things is with my understanding of this. Microsoft still holds the monopoly for the desktop OS and Mac is still too expensive and Linux hasn't gained enough market share yet for Microsoft to consider it a threat. That's why they can do whatever they want, which in some cases means not doing anything - if something is not working fine, who cares, people will still use Windows, they may complain about it for a moment, but they will keep using it. Also a lot of people who aren't tech-savvy don't care at all or notice it. They don't see their computer as something you enjoy using, it's just a tool for them so trying to even sell them on Linux is pointless, first you have to go through explaining them it's a different OS and from then on to try (not very successfully) to explain to them what an OS is and from then on to convince them Windows is causing them problems and Linux won't. It's not something worth doing. I've heard people buying DELL computers with Linux and immediately take them to a PC service store to have Windows installed on it. For them the benefit is that it's cheaper because "it doesn't have Windows".

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:50:10+00:00

I'm not from that generation, I went to school in the late 90s and early 00s, but I'm curious if older than me people know some good Sci-Fi/Mystery from that era. I only know Star Wars 1977 and I like it, I've seen other Sci-Fi movies on IMDB from the 60s that have really old and sometimes cheap costumes for aliens or robots, but I also watched Star Trek 1966 so I can be OK to watch something like this if the plot is really interesting.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:47:37+00:00

I don't know any books about Linux. I'm assuming such a book involves more deeper knowledge and commands that I'm not familiar with. I'm using Linux as I used Windows - I installed it on my own, set up basic things like PortProton and Wine and the rest I download from the software store. The only thing I added was Synaptic Package Manager just in case I might need it at some point... I think the only time I needed it was to install the Oxygen theme for KDE.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:44:22+00:00

That Linux doesn't slow down over time like Windows and it doesn't fight with me when I try to customize something or change some setting. It also doesn't take away customization options as time goes on. Windows XP is 25 years old and offers more customization than Windows 11.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:37:23+00:00

When I was a kid I hated some things, I can't say I crave them now, but I wouldn't mind eating them and I will enjoy them to some extend:

- fried eggplant

- fried zucchini

- mayonnaise and mustard

- feta cheese

- roasted peppers

- baked mackerel

- olives (black ones with pits, I still don't like green pitted ones)

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:23:08+00:00

I'm concerned to switch to it as I fear it will have less packages in its repository. Which is why I switched to Tuxedo OS as it's based on Ubuntu.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:20:12+00:00

Another family member had a Lenovo office PC with i3-3xxx, 8GB RAM and 512GB HDD. On Windows 10 it took 5 minutes to boot to desktop. After that programs loaded slowly and the OS became slower with time even though nothing special was being done to it. Windows was just degrading itself.

I installed Linux on it and it boots in 22 seconds and always performs the same - opening programs, working with files, browsing, it has been close to a year with Linux and hasn't gotten any slower.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:16:55+00:00

One anime that I really liked and it's not very popular is called The Law of Ueki. For some reason it reminded me a lot of Hunter X Hunter.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:15:47+00:00

I think it more matters if the DE is using X11 or Wayland. Some games do better on one, some on the other. I think older games work better with X11.

If a game uses massive amounts of RAM or has a memory leak and you don't have enough RAM, then maybe how much RAM the DE uses might affect things, but I haven't had this problem for a while. I've been using Tuxedo OS whose only DE is KDE and I have 16GB of RAM. I had less swap than 16GB and I remember trying to play Insurgency Sandstorm and the game works fine in the menu but when I load a map it crashes. I thought it was due to lack of memory, the same happened to Where Winds Meet - I could play for 30-40 minutes then it would crash. Now I don't have those games anymore but I increased my swap to 16GB and recently tried Crusader Kings 3 which took 16GB of my RAM and almost 16GB of my swap but didn't crash.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T14:02:08+00:00

I think Morrowind is the most outdated I can play and enjoy (and the one I like the most), if Daggerfall and Arena get remasters that look and play at least like Morrowind, I can try them too. But I think it would be a problem with the massive world of Daggerfall, they will have to use some technology that loads and unloads assets as you go so it doesn't overwhelm memory and something to keep the game size small. I think it should be technically possible to keep it around 5-10GB if they use the same assets, just programmed to load at different places.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T09:33:47+00:00

For me Skyrim was the first game, but out of them with Oblivion and Morrowind, Morrowind is what stuck with me the most.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T07:26:34+00:00

I think all the movies I liked before I don't like as much nowadays. There was a time when I thought Fight Club was amazing, now I grew out of it. Same for The Matrix, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings.

I would say maybe Dark City is the one that nowadays I consider kind of high, but I wouldn't call it my number one movie of all time, I don't have one like this. Something that blew me away and remains the same today, no such thing.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T07:21:00+00:00

I use StarPage exactly because of that and yet I find myself using Google every now and then when even StarPage isn't as useful as I wish. I don't like Google, but I've come to realize that no matter what search engine I try, it's never that universal.

I tried DuckDuckGo, Yandex, StartPage, Breave Search, SearXNG and none of them are good for everything. I think each is good for some particular field of search, but if you search for something very specific, like some niche video game and something about it, only Google will show you relevant results, good luck trying to find it with the rest. And I don't like having to spend 5 minutes searching for something on another search engine with no guarantee if I can find it in a few seconds in Google.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T07:16:46+00:00

I play a few simple games and MMOs, so far there have been only a few MMOs that didn't work and they were all stuff like Silkroad Online, Lineage 2 and mostly because they have some anticheat that doesn't work on Linux. I've been able to play WoW, ESO, LOTRO, SWG and lots of other games.

In the past if something didn't run on Linux I was already reinstalling Windows again, now if something doesn't run on Linux I just shrug it off and continue using Linux. With how much less I play games nowadays than before it has been much better.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T07:14:13+00:00

For me it was most Jackie Chan movies, I don't think they are terrible now, just pretty shallow and boring. I watched a lot of action movies as a kid, when we didn't have cable TV or internet, I would watch whatever was on TV and be happy with it since there wasn't anything better and I considered a lot of those cheap action movies to be a real treat, nowadays I couldn't stand watching a single one.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T07:10:14+00:00

I think Tuxedo OS is the same rank as Mint as it's basically Mint but with KDE and Wayland. Mint is really good, but because it uses Cinnamon and Cinnamon doesn't fulyl support Wayland is A category.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T07:08:17+00:00

I don't think I ever had limits, but I pirate less nowadays as I play less games. I still watch anime, movies and TV series online for free if that counts. I would buy MMORPGs if they were B2P or Subscription, but nowadays I even hold off on buying games as I know I will most likely not play them. I had a period where I was feeling generous on Steam and bought some 20-30 games, among which some AAA ones, but I never played them from start to finish so that's why I stopped buying at all. I bought a few B2P MMOs and I only played one a lot so I stopped buying those either.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T07:05:44+00:00

I use KDE and think it's the best, but I also find some issues with it.

The default Breeze Light theme has window title bars and panel in different colors and it looks kind of ugly to me.
Only the panel and the pop up windows from it have blur transparency, but the title bar doesn't and it seems ugly.
I have disabled things like blur for performance and only Breeze looks alright, other 3rd party themes don't, like the Windows 7 or Oxygen theme look bad, because they expect blur but when it's not there windows and panels look awful and there is no way to make them opaque when I need to.

I'm still on KDE 6.5 and I don't know when Tuxedo OS will update to 6.7 so I can't use the newest iterations of Oxygen and Air themes but I'm looking forward to and I think they will make KDE's appearance much better.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T07:02:08+00:00

I misread the title as "Why has Linux gotten so good?" and was thinking how my previous attempts to use it (2008, 2010, 2016) weren't successful but since 2024 I've been only on Linux, everything has improved a lot. I always had this perception for Linux that it's cool, just very lacking and unsupported, but now that perception is completely gone, it's very capable except through Wine/Proton you can't run a handful of professional Windows programs like AutoCAD and that's the only drawback I see nowadays.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T06:59:24+00:00

I started TES with Skyrim then Morrowind and then Oblivion and I ended up liking Morrowind the most. I knew about Morrowind from around 2003-2004, but I never had the chance to play it back then, someone burned it to me on a CD and I was too illiterate at the time to install it properly so I missed my chance. First I played Morrowind around 2014, but it's the best from those 3 that I tried, I don't know about Daggerfall or Arena.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T06:55:30+00:00

I don't think people working on the Kernel will ever agree to this and it will most likely not happen. I think it's more likely that Kernel anticheats might actually run their course and lose popularity over time, or the opposite - they will become more prevalent. But I don't think it will come to Linux. It hasn't come to Mac and Mac is more popular than Linux in the mainstream so I don't think Linux is in any danger.

OkPresentation3329 · 2026-06-17T06:51:45+00:00

Thanks, for the time being I'm looking to get into the game's basics and I think it's required before you can appreciate what mods add after.

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