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Yeah, I have not really been liking the direction a lot if headset manufactures are going. I am never going to give meta money if I have a choice.

My works used windows only industrial software. I have tried it in wine but there are to many companion apps and the accompanying licensing issues.

I palayed half life Alex on the Vive when it came out on popos. That said I tried to play it again about 18month later and it was broken; would launch but not load properly. Beat saber has worked for me very consistently, mods are hard to get going but it's possible.

Not sure that's 100% true anymore. It's not uncommon for people to go years without interacting with a windows PC, most will just use their mobile instead. When I say interacting I am not talking about using a self check at a grocery store running an app in kiosk mode, I mean startup, shutdown, update, install apps and use them.

I friend asked me for a laptop last year and had not used one for 8 years since his previous job. Even then his previous job was as a traidy and he only used it for generating invoices. I am sure their would be an app/service for that now.

Windows is in decline mainly because desktop and laptops are irrelevant for large swaths of the general population.

Provided the OS does not get in the way of what people are trying to accomplish (mainly accessing the web browser) it does not matter anymore.

Most people normal people now days need a web browser and LibreOffice (or google docs variant). Pair that with Bazzite or other "ready to go" OS that comes pre installed with multimedia codecs, navidia drivers, a mobile like app store, a mobile like DE and it can be that simple.

That was a good read, thanks.

+1 bazzite as well. It comes with waydroid for android apps, its Linux (so WSL covered), it does have a gaming focus, it has various Virtualization tools (toolbox, box-buddy) but you can get other options depending on what you actually want.

Don't like it you can rebase to one of the other ostree based images from uBlue or fedora with about one command and a reboot.

I would start with looking at what are the recomended specifications for Dota 2 and any information about specs for dota 2 that will achieve 60 FPS.

Then once you have an idea of what CPU and GPU you need you should have an idea of the total price of the PC would be if you add another $250 USD for the rest (I am in Aus and would typically use $500AUD for this but we also have less options, it's just a rough estimate anyway). There are a lot more parts you need but don't get lost in the weeds specing it out and checking compatibility just yet.

From here depending on your budget you might want to get the next tear of GPU or CPU etc. I suspect this might be the case as DOTA 2 looks like it would run well on budget hardware quite well.

You might very-well get away without a GPU but it might be a good idea to get a motherboard (with a spare PCIE slot) and PSU (600+ W) and case (with space for a GPU) that can run a low end GPU just in case your not quite happy with the performance of the integrated GPU. Who know you might get a GPU 3+ years from now when DOTA 3 comes out and it needs ray tracing or some shit. :P

General advice. Cases are not special if you can read use one or mum\dad have an old Or broken PC try to salvage this.

For snappy web browsing you have to go out of your way to make a system that fails at this these days. But as long as you have an SSD (M.2 or SATA) and 16GB or more of RAM you will be fine to open way too many tabs and the system will still preform well.

If I where you I would also look at one of your countries PC recyclers that sell ex goverment, schools, business computers referbished. You might get 90% of when you need at a good rate. If you don't mind buying second hand and some scuffs. Especially seeing that you might get away with integrated graphics only.

Check this link out for some CPU GPU combos and their expected FPS for DOTA 2: https://www.pcgamebenchmark.com/dota-2-system-requirement

Use Excel or something to track various builds and more importantly the specs, prices and links that make them up. This way you can compare new vs second hand and mix and match parts etc.

Hope this give you a push in the right direction.

Good luck.

Sorry to hear that. My 1080 works just fine and I use it daily, but that's using the legacy navidia drivers. I assumed the newer cards with the newer driver would be in a better state. What card do you have?

Sorry for the delay, two kids with gastro :$

I cheeted, I used my partners Win11 desktop, installed the XBox accessorys app, update completed in about 4 minutes. I have had success with windows based firmware update tools using wine in the past; with a lot of troubleahooting. Her PC is 2 meters from me and it was done in 4 mintes.... Yes I feel dirty, but it's a one-off firmware update. Pick your battles.

I am Australian. Yes, "suggested apps" masquerading as installed apps. Most if them shitty micro transaction games and adobe software. This is not preloaded software, I used to fresh install Windows on all my systems to get rid of that crud.

The final straw was when win10 started putting ads in the start menu. The start menu is so broken and bloated....