I had some issues with an old HP Laptop not so long ago because it uses some weird Wifi that needs Bluetooth enabled and it was a hassle to get it working. In Mint it simply worked out of the box, so I stuck with it on that device. Mint with Cinnamon is also very similar looking to Windows and should provide a smooth transition for your grandparents.
45+ is "older people" to you?
What a stupid headline.
"So who are these people? They're a bit more likely to be female. While both the comparison groups were roughly evenly split between male and female, the superspreaders were 60 percent female. They're also older, on average 58 years old, nearly 20 years older than the sample as a whole."
One important part for gaming is the graphics card - I cannot comment on that particular one, but I would recommend searching it like "nvidia rtx 4070 + linux" so you can find advice and recommendations. You could also hop over to https://www.protondb.com/, select that card and see what most people are running. Or there is this https://linux-hardware.org/ page, where you find lots of info about whats being recommended.
Nvidia used to be problematic with Linux, but I also have an older Nvidia card and haven't run into any problems (yet). Also there's lots of new development in that area, I'm sure it's gonna be ok. Also some distros offer preinstalled Nvidia drivers that you simply select in a driver manager - that for example is the case for Linux Mint.
Keep at it, you got this and there's so many people and resources online to help. Best of luck!
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Well, in that case, I hope you already subscribed to the following communites :)
and so on and so on
I hope you will enjoy your stay here, it's always nice to welcome a motivated person who wants to contribute.
The usual suspects are Bazzite, Garuda, Nobara. But you can game on every distro. To give proper advice, some info on your hardware would be needed.
Back in the day we used Knoppix, I know it still exists, but no clue if it's still viable?
Just for choosing: https://distrochooser.de/ - or put some distros with a tool like Ventoy on a USB stick and do a live install to test it on the actual system. The many options are a great thing, but of course not easy to get into at first. So I'd try not to overthink it, distrohopping is a hobby for some of us :D
For trying out how it looks and feels: https://distrosea.com/
For understanding more about Linux: https://linuxjourney.com/
Typically recommended guides:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/1.html
Have a good transition and if you stick with Mint, I'd recommend the official forums for any questions: https://forums.linuxmint.com/index.php
A crew member's mother comes aboard the Enterprise to get married.
A boy wants to be like Data.
Commander Riker is being replaced so the bridge crew shoots the new commander.
Mrs. Troi, this is a great picture. Would you share where and when you took it?
Proton should work well but if you have any questions you might wanna subscribe to
!linux_gaming@lemmy.ml, !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
I hope you will find everything you need and that the transition will be smooth!
Edit: Fixed the links, thanks bot.
This is so cool and wholesome, thank you.
I'm sure it's fun, really, but having a rootkit in a PVE game and that PSN requirement on top, that all seems fishy. I know Sony backed off for now, but like you said, it's a live service and they might change it again. I still hope players can enjoy it and have a great time.
Not at all, in Linux Mint for example I simply picked the recommended driver and I had no issues with that.
I'm using Steam without any issues on Linux Mint. If you consider that, people prefer installing the .deb from the website over flatpak or the version of the Software Manager in Mint.
Heute hat der Generalanwalt seine Schlussanträge in der Rechtssache C-446/21 veröffentlicht. Hier ist die erste Reaktion von noyb
Today, the attorney general published his opinion in the case C-446/21. Here is noyb's first reaction.
First Update on the EDPB's "pay or okay" opinion on larger platforms.
Erstes Update zur "Pay or Okay"-Stellungnahme des EDSA zu großen Onlineplattformen
Wie funktionieren Bezahl- oder Einwilligungssysteme und was sind die Probleme? Max Schrems erklärt das alles in diesem Erklärvideo
I'm looking for a FOSS image viewer on Linux that remembers the last visited image or lets me set a bookmark of some sort. Pix for example has the preference "Go to last visited location" - but that is just the folder, not the image itself. But I have folders with lots and lots of images that I work through day by day and it's tedious to find the one where I left off at the previous day.
Or is there another way of doing it that I'm just not thinking of?
Edit: BIG facepalm moment: I usually open the respective folder to continue working on my files. But if I simply open Pix, it remembers exactly where I left off last time. So it actually does what I was looking for, I was just not using it correctly. Thanks for all the recommendations though.
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I know there are other ways of accomplishing that, but this might be a convenient way of doing it. I'm wondering though if Reddit is still reverting these changes?
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
Apologies that this is not a pure gaming question, but I'd really like to hear people's opinion on the Borderlands movie trailer and especially from people who have played the games. That's why I'm asking here, I hope that's ok.
The 'Six Years in Orbit' Anniversary Celebrations kick off on February 28th. Rumors suggest a new armor set is coming. Get a sneak peek here!
I really like the non-FOMO-part with the amor!
Drivers thrown across the track, shattered fences, mangled cars, exploding tire walls, an
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