Iptables. Because in the end its iptables, so I learned it from the beginning „the right way“ and i am therefore not locked into one or another

@november
I had absolutely no issues in installing and running it with xivlauncher, but I used the AUR package (which isn't available on Mint unfortunately). Needed some Tweaks to get ACT running, but thanks to IINACT and Lmeter this works perfectly now forunately.

I think it needs some tinkering to get it to work, I mean, it runs already, just with bad performance. Have you checked the settings, if everything's set up ok?

@thelinuxEXP
I had a pretty rough start with Linux - but because of using a PreBuilt system with custom motherboard (ACPI bs not working), custom Fans and the like. Well learned my lesson, last PreBuilt I buy. Ended with replacing the Motherboard, the Chassis Fan, the CPU Fan, adding more Fans into the custom built case (which is a sh*tshow as well) and now it runs pretty stable fortunately.

Other than that, everything else was absolutely doable with a tiny bit of research, but here as well, because of my own choices to run Arch. And I'm loving my setup now as is.
What was (and today still even is), is the Arch Wiki ofc and some YouTubers doing an excellent job in showing, describing and explaining how it works on Linux (ofc you, DistroTube and many others).

I still have W11 on a secondary SSD, just in case of, for my peace of mind (made the switch about 2.5 months ago), but if I find myself not using it for months, I think I'll get rid of it eventually.

Nah, I run my updates maybe once a week on average. If afterwards something breaks, I simply do a complete Rollback (with e. g. snapshots). If after the next update its still broken, then I start to dig in „what“ is broken and how I might fix it

Rolling release 🤷🏻‍♂️ there might be updates which cause issues where you might need to rollback, if you can handle that it shouldn‘t be a problem.

I‘m using Arch myself since about 2 months and never happened that an update break something for me - when something broke it was my own fault.

@gnulinux oder, fastfetch :)

@mirekdlugosz
Timeshift and yes, it saved my bacon more times than im willing to confess