I shrunk my Win10 partition from within Windows to make space to dual boot into linux so you definitely can shrink an active partition.

I remember being so insanely jazzed and proud that I got into the closed beta for SWTOR like VERY early. Wasn't so fun when the game launched and I was already burnt out on it. lol

To be fair, they didn't address a lot of the main criticisms from beta so the game predictably sunk into "Free to play" hell not too long after. Shame, it had a lot of potential.

Point is, I specifically did not sign up for this beta for the same reason as you. I think this one is worth waiting for.

It's a janky game for sure, but in a charming way. I love it. You get used to all the oddities and they fade into the background. And there is a pretty solid modding community too... lots of mods to help with things you might not like about the game.

IMHO, Xbox is a better console than PS this gen. I was a PS guy all the way but I got both XSX and PS5 when they came out and I barely touch my PS5 compared to the Xbox.

To be fair, most of the reasons I prefer the Xbox are just user experience things. The biggest one is that I think the PS5 controller is horrible. The ergonomics are all weird for me (yeah I realize that everyone's hands are different) and the fancy trigger buttons are real cool in the one or two games that make use of them but they're squishy and vague feeling in the other 99% of games. The Xbox controller has better ergonomics, and better feel in the hand with its materials and button feel. Yes, ergonomics and feel preference will vary from person to person but it's worth mentioning since I never had an issue with PS controllers until the PS5.

The other reasons I prefer the Xbox are things like how much better it is for things on your TV that aren't gaming (streaming shows, watching movies, etc.), I think Gamepass is WAY better than the Sony version, it has more exclusives I am interested in, etc.

Anyhow, you do you, but you might look into the Xbox a little before blindly just going with the PS5 on the strength of the older consoles. I was surprised by how much I didn't want to use the PS5. And a little bummed if I'm honest. It was a lot of effort to get one at launch and a lot of money and it mostly just gathers dust.

And to answer your specific question, if you do decide to go with a PS5, just get whatever is available when you are ready to get one. When it comes to tech, there's always something better coming so you can wait forever because they will never say "okay, all done!".

I swapped last summer and landed on Pop!_OS after trying a few different options. If you game, Nobara is a great choice too. Other ones I considered were Mint, Ubuntu and SUSE Tumbleweed.

I would highly recommend trying them all with the live disk thingy. Mint didn't even work at all on my computer for some unknown reason, which was rather surprising considering how often it's recommended. It kept freezing right when the GUI logged in. So yeah, try em out for a little bit just to make sure there aren't any weird incompatibilities.

I don't know what to tell you, I played it on Xbox just fine. Played the whole game through from start to finish and had fun. I believe the issue was with last gen consoles specifically.

And again, I think a lot of the criticism was reasonable. But my point is that the game itself was and is fun, but suffers because of the bad reputation it got at launch thanks to some ill-advised (intentional understatement alert!) decisions by CDPR.

The real shame here is that TFT uses the LoL client and so we can't play TFT now either. LoL could disappear tomorrow and I will miss going back to TFT for a few weeks every once in a while.

The irony of arguing for the death penalty while taking the moral high road on "adding negative things the the world"... wow.

The timing coincides with COVID so I wonder if it really is the whole anti-masker "government can't tell me what do and besides I'm immortal!" mentality.

Poor Apple... if only the most valuable company on the planet could afford to pay the patent-holders their fair share... but money is tight. They only made $99.8 billion dollars in profit last year.

NGL, I bought a PS5 on the strength of the first two Spider Man games alone. Been waiting for this game for a long time. Glad to see the reviews are solid!

I know right? But it turns out there's a lot of satisfaction to be found in seeing a perfect 0 at the bottom of a column of sums. It's like being able to play puzzle games and get paid for it.