mateomaui

Thank you again for the feedback!

Fortnite breaks

Good, probably for the best.

Again, it sounds like you are much more informed about it than me.

It only sounds like I know what I'm doing because I've just been doing base installs in VMs, letting them update, and then checking things like kernel options installed, etc, and comparing what apps are installed in some distros and left out of others from the main applications menu, then putting it in a spreadsheet so I can see what's going on. You have way more practical experience than I do. I haven't even tried any of these on actual hardware yet.

And as I was figuring that out at the Debian command line, I was just adding it all to a text file so I wouldn't have to track down that exact info again, and then saved it as a script for automation.

If you want to see that install script, I put it here:

https://github.com/mateomaui/DebianInstall/blob/main/debian-install-3-apps-or-no-nvidia.sh

Has a commented summary of what it does at the beginning. Probably contains a lot of things you don't care about, some are only in there for science. (I was adding most of the Ubuntu Studio package, for instance.) You mentioned a number of things you have installed that aren't in there yet. I haven't even tried nVidia drivers yet since it's all been in VMs, that's in a separate file for later. But you should be able to load Debian 12.2 in a VM and run this script, and it should install almost everything listed in there without a hitch. (There's an occasional thing that requires downloading a certain version, and I don't think it can be selected automatically. Like having to manually get the exact version of VirtualBox to download the right version toolset for it. I mention in the summary and comments where it happens.)

If you (or anyone) wants to contribute changes to that install script, feel free, I'm just working it out.

tough break for Cheese Bro

huh, interesting

have mint debian edition installed

Oh that’s great, you’re exactly the one I need to talk to then, because I’ve been debating why even go with an Ubuntu-based distro at all when it’s based on Debian, and whether or not the Debian version would be a better choice. I’ve been running multiple VMs trying to work out the differences.

Before I found Debian Mint, I wrote a script for base Debian 12.2 to auto-install wine, steam, and everything else I could think of based on what’s in Linux Mint and Garuda… then discovered Debian Mint and have been wondering if that’s my best choice, because I have no idea what I could be missing in the background on my Debian install, or didn’t set up correctly because I don’t know about it.

I also noticed that Debian Mint currently uses a newer kernel than Ubuntu Mint… 6.1.0-13 vs 5.15.0. For a newer kernel than that you have to go with the Ubuntu Mint EDGE version (6.2.0) or Arch (6.1.57-lts or 6.5.7-zen).

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Has there been any particular thing you had to do to Debian Mint to make it work better for you?

Thank you! All the advertised built-in compatibility layers seemed too promising, so I’ve been wondering how often it breaks or doesn’t work as well as another distro. Also good to know the connect stuff can be added just by installing KDE. And Dolphin probably a better file manager.

What’s your preferred file manager, if you don’t mind?

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oh ok, some operational details make more sense now

Not 5.0.1… beneath that section, missing 5.1 before 5.2

Also, Section 5 seems to skip from 5.0 to 5.2, there’s no 5.1

Minor correction, “4.0.3” is used twice:

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Those communities aren’t hosted on lemmy.world and therefore not subject to its terms.

edit: if I’m not mistaken, those communities (or the instances they’re hosted on) have been banned from lemmy.world, so if you’re logged in as a lemmy.world user, you cannot see them anyway.

I’m trying to narrow down today’s distro choices, would you mind telling why you switched away from Zorin?

To be clear, it may be a linux meme, but it’s a post about a possible future with Windows, that may lead some to switch to linux. Windows users being in here, commenting and asking questions, isn’t weird.