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Why does it feel more and more like "The most popular Visual Novel contest"?

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This is actually the hardest matchup in my opinion.

Searching around shows you need at least linux kernel 4.3 for this motherboard, which is pretty much everywhere by now (4.11 is most recent one). Your setup will most likely benefit from newer kernel and mesa since they bring lots of improvements to AMD graphics driver. Something like Antergos should do nicely ootb while Ubuntu ships outdated software you have to update after installation. Visual novels work using wine (not a virtual machine but lighter alternative) but getting videos work in older games can be tricky if you're new to linux. Virtualbox with HyperV backend runs what wine can't. Win XP and 8 run at near native speed once you install guest additions. mpv is great. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=25607

You can use Linux as a powerful base system. It has niceties not available in Windows, like virtual desktops, THE CONSOLE, software manager (installing software is dead easy), etc. You'll still need Windows software (those VNs), so you have Wine or, as an alternative to VMWare, VirtualBox, which is easy to use and never gave me a problem. I don't know about the VNs that need Japanese locale and that's a problem, but with virtual machine you can do it. However I played Yume Miru Kusuri on a Linux Mint with Wine back in 2015 and it never gave a problem. If you like Mint I'd suggest keeping with it. It's one of the best distros and the most popular. Linux Mint supports Steam on its repositories, BUT not every game available for Windows is available for Linux. So I guess you'll be using your virtual machine a lot and why Linux then? Linux gaming works better with GOG, because you can switch to a native Linux version of the game (I don't know though if they like more Red Hat-based or Debian-based). Photoshop is a problem, I haven't tested it but I hear it's one of the last bulwarks of proprietary software still not available for Linux.

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VNR actually changed servers, I made a thread about it: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/17714-vnr-is-back-online/ But that problem doesn't seem to be related with the server, seems to be a configuration problem... More on it here and here.

1-It's compatible with your hardware, no problem. 2-Either using Wine or Virtual Machine, it's doable with a bit of work (it's Linux, get ready to work a bit on it) for example you can run Steins;Gate 0 only using Wine. 3-It's weird that you have problems with VLC, really. 4-Gimp but it's less and less updated, Krita is pretty advanced, if you're ready to give it a chance. For OS? better get some good Gnome pussy.

1. It will work very well with your CPU, your main issue will be getting the GPU working. There is a very good driver for your GPU but it's not installed by default since it's non-free software so you'll usually be prompted to install it after installing the operating system. 2. Visual novels will work very well under any virtualisation software - kvm is the most common one used and is free, vmware is a commercial one but works very well. The reason they work well under virtualisation is you're actually just running windows within a virtual machine. Accessing your linux files from within the virtual machine is trickier but doable. Usually you can only copy from one to the other since they're seen as two separate machines, but you can do some file sharing magic which is now getting into some more advanced functionality and non-trivial. However, in general most visual novels will actually work with 'wine' the windows emulator that doesn't need windows installed, but is a little trickier to set up. I run all of my VNs under wine. Fullscreen works on all more recent ones, but some ancient ones have trouble going full screen. 3. The media players under linux are excellent. mpv is the best player, but if you're familiar with vlc it is equally available though as you said it didn't work for you but most people with vlc on linux have no issues. 4. Photoshop will work under wine again, or if you install a virtual windows you can just run it under that. Mint is still available and a fine choice, especially if you've used it in the past and familiar with it.

No because it was 2016