I’ve been on and off with Linux for about 15 years and just want to counter some of the people trying to troubleshoot or criticize to say: it can be really tough.

We need our computers to work and we expect things to function correctly.

I’ve used dozens of distros over the years. I was a super early Arch adopter, mained Gentoo for about three years, ran my own BSD server for programming projects, and still maintain several small home Linux servers. And even I sometimes want to pull my hair out trying to get semi-new hardware working right in my distro of choice. I spent three hours today fighting Nvidia and sound drivers and eventually just had to give up on that machine after being told that what I want just flat out isn’t supported in Linux on the hardware I have.

Take a breath, set it aside until you’re ready to take another crack at it, and know that it’s a journey. You’ll get there or the software will catch up and meet you halfway. No shame in being frustrated :)

Really enjoy this game with the fan expansion and HD launcher.

If you’re looking for something less involved that scratches that same itch then Circle Empires is a fun game that takes a lot of DNA from HOMM3.

Fully agreed. This kind of thing drives me nuts and other people act like I’m crazy.

I don’t want a “base” game for $70. I don’t like the idea of spending so much and still missing content or cosmetics that in previous generations would’ve been unlockable in the game. It’s frustrating and disappointing.

The recent Space Marine did it and turned me off. Stop giving me tiers of products. It’s fatiguing!