I just want something as a proof of concept that this can be for me. I am aware I am the problem.

But everything is wildly difficult for me. I pulled back from docker after realising it was above my skillset, I just want to try home assisstant with a few lights but fair enough it is beyond me.

I opted to install a game, fail. Learn about wine and bottles. Start a bottle and get told I only have 8gb free in directory, I cannot for the life of me see where it is getting that from.

Please god someone tell me there is a step by step for the fucking imbeciles out there on where to start!?

  • Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    6 hours ago

    If that is actually what the difference in disros is then great, I looked at bazzite and did not get it I thought distros mainly differed in how desktop environment works.

    Yeah docker was a stupid goal, I wanted to start automating downloads and such through rdarr. Seems less time consuming to trawl and click.

    Yeah I do this to myself, pressure on to fully understand every facet.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah. Distros are basically just preconfigured sets of Linux, with the communities focusing on what they are interested in.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah it makes sense, I was just picturing the surface changes and everything else was default. Bazzite is probably the way to go so.

        • stuner@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I strongly disagree with u/brucethemoose here. You wrote below that you’re currently using Linux Mint, which is a great distro for beginners. In my opinion, Bazzite offers nothing essential that is not available on Mint. IMHO, the easiest ways to play games are:

          • Use Steam to play your Steam games (native or using Proton). This should just work (on both distros)
          • Use Heroic Games Launcher to play games from GOG, Epic, or non-store games. The recommendation is to install the Flatpak version, which is available on both distros. Afterwards, the setup step is to install a Proton-GE version before you can play your games (https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Linux-Quick-Start-Guide).

          You can - of course - still switch to a different distro if you like, but this is not necessary or helpful to run games.

          • Damage@feddit.it
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Bazzite offers a lot that Mint doesn’t for gaming, from dedicated images for nVidia/AMD drivers, to preinstalled steam, easy management of flatpaks (Bazaar blows Discover out of the water), ujust scripts that perform many tasks for you with just a few prompts, a set of programs and utilities uselful for gaming and related tasks.
            Sure, you can install Heroic and Steam on Mint, but that’s not all there is to it.

            • stuner@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 hours ago

              Sure, Bazzite has some nice features. But, I would argue that apart from the Nvidia images (there is no AMD image) those are all minor things. And for Nvidia cards, the Mint Driver Manager is pretty good. I don’t think any of those differences play a role here.

              In general, I think it’s really unhelpful to present “switch to my favorite distro” as the first step in troubleshooting an issue.

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I’m a massive fan of CachyOS, personally! Installed it years ago, kept the same image since then and haven’t even considered switching.

          https://cachyos.org/

          Different philosphies, I suppose. I suspect Bazzite may work better if you want stuff to just work, while Cachy is more tweaking focused and gets quite rapid updates, though is still quite set up out-of-the-box.