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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm just so sick of Microsoft and Google. But there's two things holding me back:

I wanna play Steam games on my PC
I am just an amateur hobbyist, not a tech wizard

Is there any hope for me?

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I agree that computers can have issues. But none of these are linux only. Windows does all this stupid shit too. My printer wont work with windows, only linux (how the hell this can be true is beyond me). Bluetooth drops in windows, works fine in linux. The latest nvidia update on windows broke all games making it black screen until I used some regedit fixes. A windows update broke my firmware on a video card for a while, almost got RMA'd. I could go on, talk about Jankiness. I don't use windows as my main computer due to it being so all over the place. I say this as a MSDN dev and windows server and azure dev and support person. I remote entirely from Linux, I need to have an OS that works.

My point is windows does this shit too.

But: That is your issues are a long list that seems to have a repeating theme: OpenSuse.

You don't need to edit FSTAB to add a drive, there is a gui for that, for whatever that's worth.

I have not had any of these issues on the 5 or so linux computers I use daily. I have had a few upgrades in Arch cause me to update grub or roll back, but that is about it.

Over the last two years I have found Fedora KDE has been amazingly easy to use and update.

I still can’t find a horizontal page scrolling PDF app.

That one has me curious: what is that? (I mean by definition - scroll - that can't be a thing, lol) But I am sure it is, got examples?

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm glad it works well for you.

OpenSUSE is what helped me get past even more basic problems with getting my PC up and running, that's why I stuck with it because I couldn't even get this far on other distros. I'm on CachyOS now and can manage better now that I've learnt to troubleshoot some of the main issues.

Horizontal page scrolling. I want to be able to read massive documents by scrolling through side-by-side pages rather than scrolling up/down.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago

Okular can be set to do that, but it doesnt have a scroll bar, which you might not like. Firefox can do that as well, but I concede that browser PDF viewers are not ideal.