TL;DR: A step-by-step installation of Linux Mint on real hardware and setting it up for typical gaming tasks.

I don't really care much for SOG's other content but his forays into Linux over Windows were incredible for demystifying the operating system to a mainstream audience (i.e. people who watch his content).

Some nitpicks:

  • Muta should have used the flatpak version of Steam instead of the system package, the Steam client updates itself (with its own runtime and all) so using a system package over just sharing with flathub is a bit wasteful (it does complicate external storage devices a bit since you have to manually set permissions via flatseal but that's it). (Edit: this is just a small nitpick, the native system package is fine as well).
  • There should also have been mention of Bottles over installing Wine as a system package as well as things like the Heroic Games Launcher for GOG and Epic Games titles, Lutris is fine though.
  • On long term stable release systems like Linux Mint or Debian, Flathub (or foreign package managers like Nix/Guix) should be your go to for installing software, let the distribution itself manage its core system components which I wish he clarified when he saw Flathub taking multiple GBs on first download.

Other than that, Linux stays winning. aubrey-happy

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    the fact that I can't drag and drop files into signal to send them? awful. I have to use a file picker, like a neanderthal

    I do use the clipboard a lot for images though, at least that works

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      Exhausting to just have random core features never work and the only solution is to import a PPA or build from source by yourself

      • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        I like the AUR for that sort of thing but I guess that's not that much better than a PPA. Plus Arch are being massive dickbags and saying "we're x86 only" and deleting arm packages from the AUR so that kinda ruined it for me.