TL;DR: A step-by-step installation of Linux Mint on real hardware and setting it up for typical gaming tasks.

I don’t really care much for SOG’s other content but his forays into Linux over Windows were incredible for demystifying the operating system to a mainstream audience (i.e. people who watch his content).

Some nitpicks:

  • Muta should have used the flatpak version of Steam instead of the system package, the Steam client updates itself (with its own runtime and all) so using a system package over just sharing with flathub is a bit wasteful (it does complicate external storage devices a bit since you have to manually set permissions via flatseal but that’s it). (Edit: this is just a small nitpick, the native system package is fine as well).
  • There should also have been mention of Bottles over installing Wine as a system package as well as things like the Heroic Games Launcher for GOG and Epic Games titles, Lutris is fine though.
  • On long term stable release systems like Linux Mint or Debian, Flathub (or foreign package managers like Nix/Guix) should be your go to for installing software, let the distribution itself manage its core system components which I wish he clarified when he saw Flathub taking multiple GBs on first download.

Other than that, Linux stays winning. aubrey-happy

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    8 months ago

    I’m glad the transition has worked well so far. More people using linux means that the suits at these companies will consider making linux ports. Its a chicken and egg problem that we will overcome (people not using linux due to lack of nonfree applications + corpos not supporting linux because of a lack of people).