Steam installed and games downloaded and working. I initially had issues because all my games were on an ntfs partition and couldn’t get anything that needs Proton to run at all.
Just one bit of advice is to familiarise yourself with a package manager and to use it. If you’re coming from Windows you’ll likely be used to downloading random .exes off the internet as a way of installing software. It’s much better on Linux because we have package managers, which work sort of like your phone’s Google Play Store or App Store if you use Android or iOS; it’s a centralised place where you can get trusted packages (software) and get updates for all your software in one place. Different distros tend to have their own package managers. Linux Mint uses apt. I believe there are graphical interfaces for it, but I personally don’t see any point in using a GUI for package management when it’s much simpler to use the command line. e.g. if I wanted to install vim (a text editor) on Linux Mint I’d type sudo apt install vim. There are also things like flatpak for things your distro doesn’t package.
I don’t know if you downloaded Steam off the web the way you do with Windows, or if you used your package manager, but if you did the former, you’ll have an easier time in the long run if you uninstall then reinstall through a package manager of your choice.
ive installed everything so far through the package manager, albeit through the GUI just because it seemed intuitive coming from windows. ill probably learn some command line magic along the way. im enjoying how responsive everything is and the lack of worthless bullshit that was packaged with windows
Nothing wrong with using GUIs if that’s your preference, but I think some people gravitate towards it just because they’ve told themselves it’s “easier”, when I personally think installing things using the command line is “easier”—you don’t have to navigate a GUI, figure out where they moved something because they changed the interface, etc, you just know what line to type and it is just a one-liner. It’s personal preference, but just don’t let the terminal put you off just because there’s no pictures. For instance, installing software from a package manager is an extremely easy thing to do on the terminal. Especially if you’re on an old and slow computer, it’ll be noticeably faster too.
I guess install Steam on it. (And clamtk I also find important.)
BTW what distro did you choose?
I went with Linux Mint.
Steam installed and games downloaded and working. I initially had issues because all my games were on an ntfs partition and couldn’t get anything that needs Proton to run at all.
Just one bit of advice is to familiarise yourself with a package manager and to use it. If you’re coming from Windows you’ll likely be used to downloading random .exes off the internet as a way of installing software. It’s much better on Linux because we have package managers, which work sort of like your phone’s Google Play Store or App Store if you use Android or iOS; it’s a centralised place where you can get trusted packages (software) and get updates for all your software in one place. Different distros tend to have their own package managers. Linux Mint uses apt. I believe there are graphical interfaces for it, but I personally don’t see any point in using a GUI for package management when it’s much simpler to use the command line. e.g. if I wanted to install vim (a text editor) on Linux Mint I’d type
sudo apt install vim. There are also things like flatpak for things your distro doesn’t package.I don’t know if you downloaded Steam off the web the way you do with Windows, or if you used your package manager, but if you did the former, you’ll have an easier time in the long run if you uninstall then reinstall through a package manager of your choice.
ive installed everything so far through the package manager, albeit through the GUI just because it seemed intuitive coming from windows. ill probably learn some command line magic along the way. im enjoying how responsive everything is and the lack of worthless bullshit that was packaged with windows
Nothing wrong with using GUIs if that’s your preference, but I think some people gravitate towards it just because they’ve told themselves it’s “easier”, when I personally think installing things using the command line is “easier”—you don’t have to navigate a GUI, figure out where they moved something because they changed the interface, etc, you just know what line to type and it is just a one-liner. It’s personal preference, but just don’t let the terminal put you off just because there’s no pictures. For instance, installing software from a package manager is an extremely easy thing to do on the terminal. Especially if you’re on an old and slow computer, it’ll be noticeably faster too.