Thats not the point.
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Zorin or Mint.
Zorin is a bit more dumbed down, so there is no way for normal people to do anything wrong and a lot of things work just like they would expect them to. What really shocked me is when my dad downloaded some exe from the internet, double clicked it, installed and ran the software… No other distro supports that I think. On the other hand, when he had a specific wish, there was no way to change that, even though there are other distros/de’s where I know you can. You mostly have to take it as it is given. Streamlined might be the appropriate word.
But mint is also very good for people that come from windows. No personal experience with it though.
Personally I prefer KDE over what my other two suggestions offer, but I’ve noticed that there is a lot of fiddling around involved when setting it up for specific personal preferences. If I do a fresh install, I have to go through all the kde apps and into their settings and change some behaviour here and there, which takes a whole weekend. I don’t like the defaults, but at least everything can be configured to nearly perfectly suit me. But I would not want to do that for a relative, who is not tech-savy and patient enough to do it thenselves. Thats like a constant part-time tech support job.
https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux
iirc I used this one
me running adobe ps cc 2023 in wine for the last 2 years: * stares in doubt
when i was about to install steam i found a tutorial on it with 3 - 4 pages full of text and was a bit overwhelmed
Here is my tutorial:
- enable multilib repo by editing pacman config
sudo pacman -Syu steam
It’s as easy as that. Thats how I run it.
and i read now im responsible on maintaining it, what does it mean? is it just finding and testing drivers? or system update? what is the easiest way to do it? and what i getting myself into?
When I started my Linux journey, I went with Ubuntu and kept breaking it every year for a couple of years, which taught me a lot. Then eventually I hopped to Arch and I’ve been running the same setup since. For over 6 years now. I am very lazy, so I don’t do anythjng special unless it breaks.
My setup has automatic btrfs snapshots and manual offsite backups with borg.
My workflow is:
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every friday evening after work, I do an update and reboot.
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If everything works, I do a borg backup. Most update fridays are like this and end here.
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If it’s broken (this year it’s been 2 times so far, last year iirc 3 times) I read the journal log, find the cause, fix it by live booting an arch usb stick and chrooting into mt system and following the archlinux forum or reddit or news. (For example recently, there was a kernel bug with btrfs, someone on reddit posted a mailing list link with a command that solved it)
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Sometimes there is an issue with an app I have, especially if it’s from the AUR. Often a reinstall fixes it, otherwise I fix the PKGBUILD and let the maintainer know what was broken.
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After it is broken, I go through all the .pacnew files and merge them (The wiki says you should do it after every update, but I’m lazy)
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After I fixed it, I do a borg backup.
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If it takes too long to fix or I am especially lazy, I restore a btrfs snapshot and try next week. Usually the issue is resolved by then or somebody solved it on reddit.
So yeah it’s quite involved, but I got better at it with time and again, most of the time everything just works and I can enjoy weekly improvements or new features to play with.
I am a bit on the fence which advice to give you. Either keep it and run with it for a while longer or install a simpler gaming focused distro. It’s up tp you really.
In a live environment I was not able too install too much - it always ran out of space, but I am not even sure what space it used, maybe a RAM disk?
So if Steam even fits with all of it’s dependencies, you may be able to try out a tiny game, definitely not 150GB Forza Horizon 5.
There are ways to make it work by using persistent storage, but it’s a hassle, at this point it would be easier to buy a 25$ 500GB ssd and install Linux on it.
“content” has become such a creepy word
I’ve read whats in libraries, it is usually way better than what you find on google and my personal recommendation is to look at the available selection and pick one that personally suits yourself instead of getting recommendations which suit other people. Thats what I personally like best and why.
What? No.
At least in all the libraries I’ve been to in my life there is a dedicated section for operating systems, which contains a subsection with just Linux books. You can ask the receptionist “Where is the Linux section?”, walk up to it and there it is. And you can grab a book and skim through it to see whether it suits you.
How is that not information on exactly that specific topic?
Genuine question:
Have you ever been to a library when looking for something specific? Was your experience vastly different from mine?
Try your local library - one of the most underrated free resources.
Nearly every lib I’ve been to had at least a couple of decent linux books, so you can just snoop around and check out which ones you like.
If anybody likes the concept of generating a backend from a yaml, but doesn’t like the LLM focus - there is a well established project for a well established format.
Since I started using xPipe, everything looks like a nail.
Not sure if it is part of the free tier, but you can use xPipe to ssh directly into a docker container, on a remote server or on the local machine.
Looking forward to future updates! Keep us posted
Not trying to dunk on your project, but if people look for something a bit more feature rich - I’ve been happily using xPipe for a year.
Same, but I’ve been glancing at alpine for a while as well.
I install or configure something every week.
In addition to doing the config, I’d have to edit a script as well, which seems like more hassle. At this point, why not go for nixOS and have just the latter part of the hassle without having to also edit config files in / ?
Instead, I run the backup command after I change something. When I want to restore, I can mount any of the last 20 backups from the borg repo and either manually revert a file or use rsync to mass overwrite.
I was thinking of using btrfs send, which would probably be even better for the purposes of recovering from disk failure, but borg file based backup takes way less space and works well so far. And I don’t have the extra effort of a declarative os or setup scripts.
Also works offline as long as I am with my NAS unlike a script that installs a list of packages from the repos.
I’ve been backing up my OS and my personal files with borg to my NAS.
Saved me a weekend of setup and config editing once before, when my drive failed.
Or do you just remember all the config changes you did and type them out from the top of your head? And all the apps you have installed? It’s over 300 apps and 100 config files for me.
The OS is tiny compared to personal files. It doesn’t make sense not to back it up.
What did you do before the reboot?
Why not let her try in a live booted environment first?
If I understood correctly the laptop is not there yet, but surely there is another device available which can boot from a USB stick?
I’m too lazy to spin up docker containers and config for stuff that would make my life a bit better, but not enough to warrant the hassle… Like for example a finance management software that can hook into my bank. Or document management with automatic email imports etc.