dang..
i stopped using these cause the cat kept eating the thin cable for the button so then now when there's a ladder reset, i rather just not having to rely on it if mid-ladder gotta change it or try to fix it or whatever
delays sucks tho...

iirc u reason was so could have secondary screen from 2nd computer
but i dont get why u just not plugging that 2nd screen to the one u doing the gaming thing on, have main on main screen and BO barb on 2nd screen

also i used to do 4x windows per virtual desktop to show at once, having them windowed on 1280x720
but just for ladder start and then when all the chars with BO and all were setup, going windowed fullscreen on main
that ladder tho, just stayed in 1280x720 and i dont mind, the screen already pretty big and that way dont have to move my head around while playing, only when dealing with loaders

Or few years ago was on the even bigger screen, like 56" or something like that, in 4k and all the windows (main & loaders) in 1920x1080, also how i used to multibox WoW (well, was 5x but the main was slightly bigger than the alts), was looking like this (but main at the bottom left of screen):


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also how i been running the Linux terminals by using
it can split those screens even more to like infinite numbers of screens lol
and its so powerful too, if getting disconnected for an 'ssh' connection, can just log back in and into the 'tmux' session as well without loosing any work in the process
bottom right of the screenshot is alsoas mentioned in OP to keep track of RAM usage / CPU usage

did some quick math, since the 5700G rig with 64GB RAM is using about 46GB RAM for 9x D2R + music (16GB buffer VRAM + "less than 30GB RAM")
it could probably still have enough RAM to run at least 15x D2R if not more, which so far tried with 11x D2R without problem on same rig

the 5700G CPU has 8 cores / 16 threads
so now the next benchmarking test to do is "GPU passthrough" of that integrated graphics from CPU
with Arch host & Arch VM
then do CPU pinning of each individual threads of that CPU to each D2R instance
so that everyone of those 15x D2R, individually have their own dedicated CPU half core / 1 thread
and keeping 1 thread for operating system

it's just a lot simpler

I like simple things

felt like a headache getting sandboxie and shit to work back then

Vanilla Arch is too involved, I have preferred the lax experience of CachyOS. In this day and age, Windows is seldom used and only as a last resort for legacy software. I do run a few headless servers with Mint.

Obviously D2R does not require dGPU, it runs just fine on Steam Deck without crashes.

oh right, sandboxie.. added to proxifier to run the d2lod instances through their individual residential proxy.. what a pain it was lol
and then the compartmentalization was breaking too often...
I liked that they opensourced back in 2020 tho, that was nice to see, still too much of a pain tho

on Linux is Lutris that takes care of that, so much simpler too, can even have the shortcuts on desktop to run the individual instances, can run all the battle.net all at once and they're not hanging, the compartmentalization is working properly and launching the instances are just super fast and no headache


very nice! and surprised to see the window previews are working with Wayland on the virtual desktops bottom left of the screenshot
very useful to quickly move individual instances to different workspaces through drag n drop
tried plasma the other day as well, xfce4 through both labwc and wayfire but none were able to show the previews compared to with x11 so thought it was just a limitation from Wayland that it cant, which it has a lot of features missing as seen from:

and always remembered KDE to be extra bloated for decades but seems like that move to Wayland made it a lot more snappier, will definitely have to try as well, have a few more smol nvme for systems could have with different setups, thank you for sharing your feedback!

I just use one client

My head hurty

mine here btw:

am more of a minimalist tbh, also why for Ubuntu, used to start of the "server" version and often at install also just enabling "minimalist" distro

so seems like that install uses only 762 packages
no snap either which i just hated when they introduced those in Ubuntu
which both Firefox and Chromium were in those snaps
then the whole having to manually maintain the snaps cause they dont uninstall themselves automatically for the older versions....
so had to do the whole then individually for each older snap, uninstalling by specifying the revision number..
I probably could get that RAM usage down, havent really been in the mood to benchmark gentoo either, having to literally compile the whole OS from source manually and all that... but would probably be the best in term of that minimalism / min/maxing / lowest RAM usage possible

Very nice! My early Linux days started with Damn Small Linux and TinyCore, no GUI, talk about minimalism. I knew very little terminal commands then and thought I was a wizard Peppermint and Puppy became my choice distros for many years as they were very minimal and I have always loved to tinker with antique/aging hardware.

Why not go LXDE if min/maxing? Is it still alive today?

here is my Arch.