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I'm a mint bro also, you wanna get a wine front end, mint comes with "software manger" for basic tasks you'll want to start there and try "playonlinux". It's worth noting linux gaming is still so-so, though it can be more powerful due to the game not fighting the os, the driver support can be sloppy, again use wine or just try out some of the free linux games. You'll also need to learn to use the command line for sudo apt get and ect.
I know about things like wine and proton, but thank you.
Brave are too much of a bitch to offer the downloads directly. All the command line prompts they give you for ubuntu can be copy pasted into terminal on your machine, and they will install the .deb file for you.
Almost all of that stuff can be done through the GUI. The first week is always the hardest, but what can you expect when deprogramming from decades of The One True (Microsoft) Way™?
It would be nice if Brave offered a deb release, but I think the current method to get it installed in Debian or Ubuntu based distros is fine. Adding Brave's release channel to your sources list makes it easier on you when they update the browser. You'll just update through your package manager along with any other updates there may be.
Lots of multiplayer games won't play nice, since anti cheating can treat linux wine as hacking.
Read any of like half the pages in this thread. Anticheat will flag you except when it doesnt, and DRM will break except when it doesn't. Anything more than 10 years old runs better than it does on windows.
While I agree the way they do it works well, the issue is there should be a one click solution for non tech savvy individuals. For instance, there is 0 reason they couldnt provide a .deb 1 click installer that would add the release channel into your package manager and install the browser. After all, thats how chrome does it.
I use Libre Draw to edit PDFs if it's not too complicated. It works perfectly fine for basic editing tasks but if depending on the source PDF, it can sometimes screw up the kerning and other formatting when you import.
That's really more of the Brave dev's fault they don't supply the deb package as well. Maybe it's more of a convention type of thing the Brave installer is that way and they don't feel like supplying the deb, Beats me though
Man just install PopOS. People will make fun of you, but it works and is beginner friendly
yes and no. It's perfectly feasible to boot linux and telling it to ignore a GPU and start directly into a VM. (at that point you might as well dual boot though, probably) It's at least theoretically possible to "unload" a graphics card from a running linux, hand it (together with USB ports etc. with peripherals connected) to a VM and then reverse this process when the VM is shut down. Wouldn't need a second graphics adapter or even a KVM switch in that case but can't "switch back" to linux on the fly. (except remote connection) That being said, theoretically. Last time I tried about three or four years ago unbinding and rebinding an AMD GPU was a cointoss in wethever the card got into an unrecoverable state where only a hard reset would help making it show up again or even where the enitre system would crash. The kernel might've gotten better since then though.
It very much depends on the specific games. For example, I'm doing my gaming through steam and so far I've played more than 250 titles which run very well on linux. Some of them have native versions, most not.
The point is - people don't want to understand (and I can't blame them), they just want to grill.
Yeah, that was my first distro (and last) because a friend of mine was using it and I didn't know better. >15 years later and I'm still compiling my own kernels. After having passing experience with debians/ubuntus and various redhat abominations, I wouldn't replace it with anything else.
This was gnawing at me, so I went back and gave it another try. I'm going to post the instructions here just so that the one goddamned place on the entire goddamned internet to have a complete, working set of instructions is Kiwi Farms.
winbind, libnss-winbind, cifs-utils/lib/systemd/system/winbind.service and make sure that the "After" section includes "network-online.target". On my system it only had "network.target" by default, which is not enough./etc/nsswitch.conf and add "wins" to the hosts line. Internet sources suggest that the order matters, and "wins" should be inserted after "files" but before "dns". Mine looks like:hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dnsmount.cifs, and set some sort of appropriate file protection on it. (chmod 400 seems to be a good start - not sure if this is sufficient)/etc/fstab and add CIFS filesystem mounts, with a special parameter to have them only processed by systemd after winbind is loaded.//servername/sharename /mountpoint/path cifs credentials=/path/to/creds,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777,x-systemd.requires=winbind.service 0 0The best part is trying to edit PDFs from state governments. I have no idea what black magic they use to make those documents, but the ONLY thing that will open them is adobe reader.
Brave is far from the only company that does this. Look at brother printers. Their instructions for installing their scanner software is similarly complex, and on top of that doesnt even work properly, you have to use another FOSS program to get the scanner to work. In fact, I believe that HP is the ONLY OEM that offers a package installer for their printer/scanner setup on linux.
Those are good points and for that reason I don't mess with scanning stuff in Linux. Printing works fine with a cups server and that's all I need but for scanning I've no idea. The software I've used already comes compiled with the executable ready to run once you untar the archive, including the drm free games I have. Otherwise, Steam takes care of managing my games library and it works nicely.