I’m an educator, and my Windows PC crashed during my first period class.
I had a cinnamon mint USB drive in my bag. I booted to it, and it saved the day!
I don’t have anybody to tell just how much of a godsend that was, but I figured you guys might appreciate it!
What kinds of issues have you had? I haven’t had a single problem since switching a couple years ago. Sometimes there are driver issues with specific hardware.
Yesterday I downloaded a mod manager for Valheim and it opened to a blank screen so I had to google around and find out I need to set an environment variable. Then how to do that via terminal but I also wanted a way to automate it and so I found out about .bashrc and alias. And there’s probably easier or better ways but like half the crap I find online feels like I’m trying to decipher another language and/or its a 15 year old post so idk if it’s even valid anymore.
I play Valheim on Linux and have hosted a server before.
Easiest way is just to use R2 Mod Manager. It’s available for Linux too. You just launch the game through it instead of Steam / wherever you launch it. I use PikaOS now which is based on Debian but had Bazzite in the past and it worked there too.
You do have to tell it where Steam / the game is installed though, but that’s true of it even in Windows.
PS: fastest way to get help is probably venting/ saying something isn’t working in a Linux community lol. It’s a useful thing to know. That’s how I sometimes get my answers too.
environment variables are a thing on windows as well. I grew up with windows and had to set environment variables for random stuff there as well. That is just a (depending on what you do) fairly normal thing. i hate to say it because obviously we all want people to switch to linux and have a good time and want to be helpful but … that’s just a skill issue
Most programs work on Windows though without needing to set an environment variable.
same is true for linux
Well that would depend on what you use to run that mod manager, as that’s probably a Windows application using wine (or proton, which is still based on wine). If you always just launch it from bash, .bashrc is the easiest. Launchers like Bottles or Steam will let you configure launch options per program/game. e.g ENVVAR=value %command% (%command% is a standin for the actual launch command, you leave that as is - it’s necessary because you can add things both before and after the command)
But yes, overall, running Windows software is still the most annoying part of using Linux. At least usually for games run from Steam there’s not much tinkering needed assuming the game works (so no kernel level anticheat games)
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I downloaded r2modman and it worked out of the box. I found out shortly after that some modders moved to a new site and gale mod manager was now the recommended one. I tried and it didn’t work out of the box so I had to do some tinkering. Both of themworked fine on windows with no issues. Yes I am new to Linux and its a learning experience for me. I didn’t blame the OS, I said it didn’t seem as easy as everyone says. There is so much conflicting info and a million different distros that it all applies to differently and people neglect to mention all the details and a million of other little things that compound. Will I get it at some point after using it more? Yes. Has that time come when I’ve used the OS for a collective of maybe 4 hours here and there? No.
To pour oil on the fire (since you said you already decided on an OS), a lot of people recommend Linux Mint as a goto OS when moving from Windows, supposed to be the most similar experience.
Do you see why this might not be the right approach to build a community when someone is asking for help in a polite way?