Linux Crack Tips

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Welcome to Linux Crack Tips!

The place to share and discuss everything about the intersection of Linux, Gaming and Piracy.

This is the official replacement for r/LinuxCrackSupport, which was abandoned by the original mod team!

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Aw man.....I misunderstood the point of this community. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to c/linuxcracksupport@lemmy.world

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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!!!!!

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[–] mech@feddit.org 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Step 1: Chill
Step 2: Don't try to run before you can walk. Adding or changing repositories is a bad idea 99 times out of 100.
Step 3: STOP reading up on all the Linux controversies online. It's just an operating system.
Step 4: Stick with Zorin. Why? Simply because it's the distro you've been using for a year. Almost all Linux distros can do what any distro can do. Which one you use generally doesn't matter as much as you think. Stick with it until you run into something it can't do, and you know enough to know which other distro could do it better. It doesn't matter that it's based on Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is kind of meh. Don't worry about Snaps, Wayland or Systemd. Just install the programs you need and use your computer.

[–] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. Stick with Zorin or maybe try Ubuntu. If you specifically do not want to learn, which is what your post makes it sound like, Zorin or Ubuntu will be your best bet.