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I feel its the inverse of windows in that sense, maybe I am just used to it and its ways but if I st out to do something it just id achievable...mind you Inwouldnt be doing anything complicated but even te mundane is complicated here.
I am young and have a computer science degree, and I still struggle at times. I get it.
For games, I'd try to install steam and run them through steam if thats how you'd normally do it on windows. Then for me the main setting to play with (on a game by game basis) is setting the game to use proton (in the compatibility settings of the game) and whether or not to use steam input for controller support.
If you are trying to install a non steam game, maybe look into lutris. Though I'm on the techy side, and I hear a lot of people like heroic game launcher on the less techy side.
Good luck. I think it's fair to run out of energy while trying get the right combo, but if ya stick to it I'm confident you'll find the set up that works for you.
I actually did get lutris perfect last time for what I wanted it, this time is different.
I had steam told to use proton in general compatibility settings but I just copped that on a per program basis it was off for some reason so I selected it and it progressed to install which is great. Unfortunately it did stall in the same place as bottles, by claiming there was only 8GB free of a necessary 60 so I have to figure out why that keeps cropping up. My only drives are 300gb free ssd and 1tb free hdd.
Thanks for the confidence though, much appreciated.
What might have happened: if you select a global compatibility tool (proton) in the steam settings, it will use that for all non-native games. But any games that ship a Linux binary will still use that instead of Proton. This is generally good, but some devs ship a Linux binary that's actually not as good as the Windows one. I've seen some games not update the Linux binary until much later than the Windows one, so the Linux one is out of date, and for some games it's just flat-out broken. In these cases you can manually select a Proton version for that game, which will force it to run the Windows binary.
You're not running snapshot backups are you? Classic newbie linux mistake. Those old snapshots fill up a hard drive fast.
I dont think so, I went and checked my drives, everything was fine and visible. ~900gb free and two volumes of a few mbs. Thought Inwould format and now I have to learn about mounting again because I can see it in directories but cant in disk analyser.
You should always see drives in the Disks application mounted or unmounted. Maybe youre getting partitions mixed up , easy to do