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Yeah I feel Linux has a lot of dead ends. Its easy to follow the wrong path. My saving grace has always been that once you get things working, you know how you did it and it likely won't change much.
So really its a big search, but once you hit a steady state it really feels like home.
I feel its the inverse of windows in that sense, maybe I am just used to it and its ways but if I st out to do something it just id achievable...mind you Inwouldnt be doing anything complicated but even te mundane is complicated here.
I am young and have a computer science degree, and I still struggle at times. I get it.
For games, I'd try to install steam and run them through steam if thats how you'd normally do it on windows. Then for me the main setting to play with (on a game by game basis) is setting the game to use proton (in the compatibility settings of the game) and whether or not to use steam input for controller support.
If you are trying to install a non steam game, maybe look into lutris. Though I'm on the techy side, and I hear a lot of people like heroic game launcher on the less techy side.
Good luck. I think it's fair to run out of energy while trying get the right combo, but if ya stick to it I'm confident you'll find the set up that works for you.
I actually did get lutris perfect last time for what I wanted it, this time is different.
I had steam told to use proton in general compatibility settings but I just copped that on a per program basis it was off for some reason so I selected it and it progressed to install which is great. Unfortunately it did stall in the same place as bottles, by claiming there was only 8GB free of a necessary 60 so I have to figure out why that keeps cropping up. My only drives are 300gb free ssd and 1tb free hdd.
Thanks for the confidence though, much appreciated.
which distro and hardware config? Can't speak to docker as I don't use that any more, I've yet to get stuck into homeassistant, but games are just click and run on most distros with steam?
I am running the most recent mint on a Dell 7060
I7 8700 processor. 480gb nvme SSD. 1tb HDD 16gb 2666 MHz DDR4 ram Intel UHD graphics 630
Id suggest watching the videoes of LearnLinuxTV on Youtube, he covers linux on a very basic level, hes got loads of videos on a vast amount of different topics.
Some distros and technologies can be more complex.
For Home Assistant, consider using Yunohost. It doesn't require Docker skills. You can find step-by-step guides on their website.
I guess gaming with Linux has always been tricky, you can check ProtonDB to see which games are easily compatible with Linux.
Yunohost is great, Portainer is also useful.
For gaming? You need a distro that does stuff for you!
To elaborate, if you’re using wine bottles, you’ve gone waaay into the land of manual from-scratch configuration, when you should just use stuff from a community that spends thousands of man hours figuring it out and packaging it.
Try CachyOS or Bazzite! They have a bunch of packages like advanced versions of preconfigured Proton one install away.
For docker… yeah, it’s a crazy learning curve if you just want to try one small thing. It’s honestly annoying to go through all the setup and download like 100 gigabytes of files just to run a python script or whatever.
You can often set up the environment yourself without docker, though.
And to reiterate, I’m very much against the ethos of “you should learn how to do everything yourself!” I get the sentiment, but honestly, this results in suboptimal configurations for most people vs simply using the packages others have spent thousands of hours refining.
Try CachyOS or Bazzite!
Bazzite, sure, but it's not gonna magically solve these kind of issues.
However, if one is struggling as a beginner with Linux, I would strongly advise against switching to an Arch-based distro (CachyOS). Arch is great, but this is not its target audience.
For docker… yeah, it’s a crazy learning curve if you just want to try one small thing. It’s honestly annoying to go through all the setup and download like 100 gigabytes of files just to run a python script or whatever.
Idk, when I started out I just copy/pasted commands (later compose files) and it worked
If that is actually what the difference in disros is then great, I looked at bazzite and did not get it I thought distros mainly differed in how desktop environment works.
Yeah docker was a stupid goal, I wanted to start automating downloads and such through rdarr. Seems less time consuming to trawl and click.
Yeah I do this to myself, pressure on to fully understand every facet.
Yeah. Distros are basically just preconfigured sets of Linux, with the communities focusing on what they are interested in.
Yeah it makes sense, I was just picturing the surface changes and everything else was default. Bazzite is probably the way to go so.
I'm a massive fan of CachyOS, personally! Installed it years ago, kept the same image since then and haven't even considered switching.
Different philosphies, I suppose. I suspect Bazzite may work better if you want stuff to just work, while Cachy is more tweaking focused and gets quite rapid updates, though is still quite set up out-of-the-box.
I opted to install a game, fail.
What game? Install how? Is it from an online platform?
I just want to try home assisstant with a few lights but fair enough it is beyond me.
The installation of home assistant, or its usage?
@Squizzy you're not getting the full Linux experience if you can install everything on the first try, lol. sad but true
Before using docker u need learn how to use it,it would be problem no matter what os if u don't know how to use this technology.Bottles yes or portproton,storage scan u can use gnome disk storage analyzer
Yeah this is the kind of thing I need, a list of what to get through. I know fuck all about cli or ide or anynof that stuff so I have work to do.