Quazatron

My mom (85) has been using Xubuntu for some 10 years now. She uses Facebook and Gmail and plays card and puzzle games. She had no prior contact with computers, and learned it mostly by herself.

Just give thema stable solid distro. It will make their and your life easier.

I can confirm it works as advertised, has very low maintenance and good performance.

I use it for gaming with Steam, Heroic, Lutris and a bunch of emulators, web browsing, some light development and home lab.

No. You can layer ext4 with LVM and LUKS to get a lot of features (but not all) that you get with BTRFS or ZFS. FAT is not suitable for anything other than legacy stuff.

I can hear this picture.

You can and should use whatever OS fits your use case. Right tool for the job and all that.

What you should not do is post a clickbait video to trigger the penguins into giving you views.

You don’t have to sell Linux to me, I’ve been onboard since 95. :-)

All I’m saying is: if I needed to run Windows apps with zero hassle, I’d use Windows. I don’t, so I won’t.

Can you run non native binaries on Linux? Sure, Linux is the Swiss army chainsaw of the OS world. There are multiple ways to achieve that.

Is it complicated? A bit. You’re interfacing a binary created for a completely different and alien environment. You’d get the same answer if you asked “why can’t l just run Mac apps in Windows like any other .exe?”

The best way to run .exe files is Windows. You have wonderful tools to help you run Windows apps on Linux, but the experience will probably never be as seamless as you want.

Nice work.

I used to get teased by the veterans for using nano instead of vi. Nowadays, I’m the one doing the teasing. Even if you don’t like it, learn the basic stuff, it’ll save you someday.

What I learned this week:

ping _gateway

is faster than looking up the gateway’s ip address and pinging it.

I also learned how to deploy stuff on AWS using OpenTofu, but the _gateway trick is neater.

Having a nVidia GPU does not stop you from running Linux, it just makes it more painful depending on what you’re trying to achieve due to nVidia’s poor Linux support.

I merely suggest that one should use the appropriate tool for the job or endure the consequences. Blaming the tools achieves nothing.

Microsoft is free to publish minimum requirements for Windows (TPM 2.0 for Windows 11, for instance), but you don’t have that in Linux. You are free to throw it at any hardware you want, and it will mostly work out of the box.

But that depends on companies and volunteers working on the hardware support. Intel and AMD provide good support for their hardware. NVidia does not. You should act accordingly, either buying supported hardware or sticking to software that supports your hardware (Windows or Mac).

I read the first paragraph and saw your prerequisites included working with nvidia.

That is a non-starter, right there. You can blame Linux for a whole lot of little flaws, but most of the blame should go to your hardware vendor for providing shitty support for Linux.

Using the tool that best fits the use case is not weird. It’s common sense.

This is the attitude the OP is talking about.

Being snobbish helps noone, we’ve all been noobs at some point.

Can’t argue with cool points.

My SSD Steam library over two drives because life is short and I cba managing the two ssds independently.

You do know that Steam handles multiple libraries transparently, even on removable drives?

Rsync itself may be a bottleneck. Have you compared it to cp command, for instance?

It doesn’t have to be the best, it just has to be better than the current standard. Git was better than CVS and SVN, so it won.

Exactly. Boring stability is good.

Can one tool be used for multiple use cases? Sure. Should it? Maybe not.

Fair enough, but I like the fact that I can keep Firefox or Steam from accessing my bank records and holiday photos.