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!!!

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Crack tip number 1: The desktop environment you use is independent of the distribution. You don’t have to switch to an entirely different distro if you don’t like Gnome or KDE or LXDE or whatever. On 90% of distros installing another desktop environment is one command away.

    Crack tip number 2: If you want to know what a command does run man command or google that. Use the arrow keys to scroll up and down /searchterm to search for a word and q to exit.

    Crack tip number 3: Ask for help on Lemmy.