Need a good resource to learn linux

wargreymon2023, 24 days ago

Linus tech tips on YouTube

electric_nan, 24 days ago

Yeah just boot it up and fuck around. You’ll eventually want to do something that isn’t obviously doable, and then you’ll look it up. A series of rabbit holes later and you’ll have learned a bunch of stuff. Maybe not the thing you originally wanted to, but some other stuff!

Andromxda, 24 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

Definitely check out The Linux Experiment on YouTube. DistroTube and Mental Outlaw also make great videos about Linux, some of them are more advanced though. If you need to learn how to use the Terminal, check out Learn Linux TV, as well as some other recommendations from these threads: lemdro.id/post/8480193 and lemmy.ml/post/15455439

087008001234, 24 days ago

Distrotube and Mental Outlaw were the two final dominoes in a decade+ long journey for me :) those two are both legit

PiratePanPan, 24 days ago

Saw the edits and I would like to congratulate you on the start of your journey.

All of the stuff you mentioned works very well - OBS is native, (and if you miss the performance of ShadowPlay, somebody made a replacement!
qBittorrent is native (and IMO the best) and the vast majority of games work on Linux now!(ProtonDB is a great resource for seeing what works and what does, and it even has a profile feature where you can plug in your Steam account username so it can automatically show you what’s compatible!)
Mods are slightly finicky, but SteamTinkerLaunch will likely be able to solve all your problems, and r/linux_gaming has numerous discussions and workarounds, including this very recent and relevant one!

Have fun, and try not to get caught up in distrohopping!

rfy, 24 days ago

In my case, trial and error. Did stuff, looked up things, used online resources like forums from search results, Reddit, YouTube, and more.

You may even find that the basic free to use ChatGPT of use. A lot of my basic scripts I used ChatGPT to make for example.

Corr, 25 days ago

Quick tip to add to all the other advice: if Linux give you a warning, please read it carefully. Its not windows where you can safely blow through warnings. Otherwise, use it and enjoy!

Nibodhika, 25 days ago

Hey, others have already replied to a lot of things and you’ve already downloaded Mint (which is what I would have recommended also), so I would like to point out some things I always tell newcomers and some specific things for what you said.

First of all: Linux is not Windows is the hardest lesson to learn, there are a lot of things you’re used to doing one way, but that doesn’t make that way correct. The main example is installing software, looking on the internet and downloading a binary from a website is NOT how you do it, the example I always give is that of a smartphone, it’s just as ridiculous to do in Linux than on a smartphone and for the same reasons. Instead use the package manager of your distro, that should work like the play/app store (except it’s free), and if something is not there maybe you can add a repository to it, or maybe the program doesn’t exist on Linux, only as a last resource should you do it manually.

Partitions and drives: Linux doesn’t have the concept of a C: or D: drives, instead drives/partitions are mounted onto regular folders, so navigating through them is seamless. This means that if for example you were t mount the folder that contains all of your personal user data (/home) into a different partition from the root of the system (i.e /), you could format and change the system entirely without losing any personal data. This is very useful because it’s very likely you will poke something and break stuff, with much freedom comes much power to break things, so being able to reinstall your system without worrying about your personal data is a good thing.

Drivers: mostly you shouldn’t worry about drivers on Linux, unless your GPU is Nvidia, if so you should worry about drivers a lot. Nvidia’s work best with the proprietary nvidia driver (instead of the default open nouveau driver), but the fact that the driver is proprietary makes it a pain in the ass to deal. You should 100% use it since you’re gaming, but you should steer away from distributions that use Wayland (nevermind what this is for now) instead of X11 (Mint so far uses X11). If you have a Radeon you shouldn’t worry about this.

I use my PC mainly for streaming

Be careful, afaik not all streaming software/sites are compatible with Linux. But that’s not a world I dabbled much, I know OBS works excellently, but other than that don’t know much.

downloading torrent files who’s copyright you don’t need to worry about

We all have torrent downloaders, for our Linux iso which are distributed via torrent of course

and light gaming. Usually just messing with New Vegas mods.

Iirc new Vegas is not on the supported list on steam, so you need to go to settings and enable Proton compatibility for all titles. I’ve never put mods so not sure how to do that, but you might need to read something before because the game is being run through a compatibility layer, so the files are not exactly where you would expect, and if you need to run a binary to find those files it needs to be in the same profile as new Vegas (each game creates their own profile based on steam ID, and each profile is in a different folder). Other than that New Vegas works perfectly on Linux, I’ve played it a long time ago, and now with the TV show I’ve started again.

Last but not least: Welcome!

Theharpyeagle, 24 days ago

Proton is a godsend. Some games can be a little unstable, but I’ve yet to find one that doesn’t work at all. Even was able to install and mod a game from 2000. For what doesn’t work on Proton, Lutris can hopefully handle. Takes a little doing sometimes but I got Battlenet/WoW working almost prefectly with CurseForge.

Nvidia drivers are a huge pain in the ass, though, and haven’t played nice with Wayland in my experience.

Nibodhika, 24 days ago

There are games that don’t work with Proton, but at this stage is 99% games that are actively trying not to work with Proton, e.g. DRM infested games.

TheLugal, 25 days ago

Excellent reply!

I just want to add that partitioning your drives is not backups and can never replace backups. It just increases the likelihood of making it easier to fix should you fuck something up with your install.

Also, if OP means “watching streaming services” and by “streaming”, there should be little to no setup. Mainly the browser might ask you to enable DRM for the service to work.

SquirtleHermit, 25 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

Piggybacking on to this excellent comment to elaborate on modding New Vegas. Everything except NVR works great! I’d recommend using this to install MO2

4GB patcher has a Linux specific version on the Nexus Mods page.

You can run most tools like the BSA decompressor or the TTW installer using Protontricks.

xLODGen can be added as a tool to MO2 and just works.

edit: Forgot to mention, Wabbajack doesn’t work. Best just to run it on a Windows VM and move the files. Also, the current working version of MO2 doesn’t support Root builder. So just move any files that need to be in the game folder directly to the game folder.

sic_semper_tyrannis, 25 days ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoaIoctknLk

PS. I’ve been using Mint for around 2yrs but after recently messing around with Fedora Kinoite and Bazzite both with Plasma it really shows how dated Mint is. Fedora with Plasma is sooo modern and filled with great features.

possiblylinux127, 25 days ago

This may come as a shock but Linux is good for learning Linux. You can’t beat experience.

toynbee, 25 days ago

I mean, possibly.

hperrin, 25 days ago

Most of the Ubuntu guides online should work for you if you’re using Mint. (Unless you’re using Mint Debian Edition, but even then a lot will work.)

umbrella, 25 days ago

come back here if you need to understand something about it

AnAnonymous, 25 days ago

You can use Copilot to ask about the problems you face after installing Linux, it will save you time instead of using normal search engines. Good luck!

ProgrammingSocks, 25 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

“How do I remove a folder called root using the Linux terminal”

“This task can be achieved with a simple command, just run sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root and the folder should be deleted. Hope this helps!”

Don’t use copilot without checking another source.

AnAnonymous, 25 days ago

Actually that’s the way to remove the root folder, but obviously people should know if you remove the root folder you remove everything in the partition included the system and the files, it’s not a problem of the AI it’s a problem about dumb people.

vaionko, 25 days ago

No. That removes everything in the root filesystem. Very different from a “folder called root”. The correct command would be rm -r root

ProgrammingSocks, 25 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

The joke is I’m referring to a generic folder simply named root. Not the root folder.

it’s not a problem of the AI it’s a problem about dumb people

Hey, I’m not the one telling people to blindly follow an LLM.

AnAnonymous, 24 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

I didn’t said to blindly follow an AI, in fact, you should never follow anything blindly, I just said(supposing you have common sense) you can save some time using an AI to look for answers instead of using normal search engines.

oo1, 25 days ago

explainingcomputers on youtube.

But really he just shows how there's nothing to it these days.
Probably easier than a windows install.
Especially if you try to force your brain to read the windows user agreement - I tried to do a micrsoft virtual machine install recently, and got stuck at the EUA. My mouse just refused to click yes.

theshatterstone54, 25 days ago

The mention of the EULA brought back bad memories.

That was not a joke. I’m the guy that reads the Terms of Service and especially the Privacy Policy. I’m not a lawyer, but the more of these you read, the easier it gets to weed out the good ones from the standard (read: terrible) ones, and the absolutely monstrous ones. The Windows EULA is among the worst ones I’ve read (though I admittedly did a skim read of that one). As I was writing this, I decided to actually read the EULA and found a grammatical error in it lol.

oo1, 25 days ago

haha.
Similar, I skim then, don't really know what they exactly mean, but often some terms and phrases are just scary.

Is there any youtube channel or something where someone knowledgeable goes through them and points out what the different parts mean.
I think that'd be quite interesting or at least useful.

teawrecks, 25 days ago

Yeah, I’d say ideally you should be able to run mint and just figure out what you need to do with minimal difficulty.

My partner started using mint recently and the two biggest annoyances for her are having to enter her password all the time to update anything, and minor windowing differences, especially going in and out of fullscreen games. I think both of those are just a matter of getting used to how it’s done differently outside of windows.

IMO the thing that could use some attention is their package manager. There are several warnings and failures that I think have been unnecessary.

ex 1. Almost every update will ask if she’s sure she wants to resolve some package conflict in some default way. This is not a question a normal user is equipped to answer, and only makes the user uneasy about what’s happening.

ex 2. When she initially installed, the welcome wizard had her run a speed test to rank her repo sources, and she picked a nearby university that seemed like a good choice. Then a few days ago at random, it became inaccessible I guess, and now her package update fails to update Firefox specifically. I need to help her sort that out, haven’t had time.

These are the kinds of errors I expect to see on arch occasionally, but on mint I feel like it should always figure out what the best option is for the user and just do it. If it needs to let the user know it did something, fine, but don’t present it ominously. Just put the system in a good state so that it’ll keep working, that’s all a normal mint user wants you to do.

stoi, 25 days ago

I’ve found Ubuntu and steam to just work with very little need to ever open the terminal (aside from setting up mic noise canceling w/ speakers). Most stuff that you install via terminal has its own guide. GPT / stack overflow can fill in most other gaps.