I thought this was going to be a community for linux newbies, who come here and find little tips for how to better use linux. Like little tips and tricks to better use linux that are so addictive it’s like crack.

Alas, no. This is a sub on how to download pirated linux games.

Which I’m still all here for, by the way. I just wish the community I envisioned ALSO existed. It would be like the first time I ever found out about the registry editor on windows XP.

I need THAT moment, but for linux. The moment where I figure out how to take control, and understand what I’m doing.

Because right now, I’m just distro hopping, but hating most of these options. Right now I’m looking at LMDE which is Mint without ubuntu. Also looking at Fedora. Also looking at Bazzite. And I’ve been using Zorin for a year now.

Outside of those, I hate every option I try. MX Linux was kind of good…but also really really annoying. HATED PopOS.

I’m just looking for tips that will help me understand “OOOOHHHH!!! THAT’S how that works.”

Like right now, I have no idea how updates work. I know there’s repositories. I have no idea where these repositories are. I have no idea how my computer knows where these repositories are. I have no idea how to add or change my repositories. I have no idea what’s in them.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg of what I don’t know. Terminal is just…can we make a distro without the terminal please? Make it so you can download your own if you want to, but the culture around this distro would be terminal-less. That’s the distro I want.

I want to have issues, that have solutions online that don’t start with:

“Step 1, open terminal…”

NOOOOOOOOO!!!

  • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Ignore this person OP, they’re basically lost to the Void Linux, not understanding the whole world doesn’t necessarily want to spend countless hours tweaking every little thing or even more hours troubleshooting. Sure I like it and have an Arch based laptop, but I’m still same enough to know that most people don’t find that fun or nice &tc.

    Just go with Bazzite if you want something easy to use that’s hard to mess up with gaming, and use the Flatpaks. If you ever do one day feel like having a bit more control and tinker power though, I learned today Cachy is a good next step, since it’s still very easy to use for gaming but is based on Arch.

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      9 hours ago

      CachyOS is butter smooth. And you could potentially never have to open the terminal